This Amitabh Bachchan movie is expected to be his comeback project, the most expensive movie in India, turned out to be a box office bomb
The film stars Amitabh Bachchan as superhero Ajooba, along with Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Sonam, Shammi Kapoor, Dara Singh, Saeed Jaffrey and Amrish Puri, playing a major role. Ajooba was produced on a budget of 80 crore and was the most expensive Indian film to be produced until then.
We often see a small budget movie that was a huge blow at the box office, and later the manufacturers were encouraged and then they spent a lot of Rs on the sequel. Pushpa, Kantara and KGF are big examples, and their sequels have cost a lot of money for the filmmakers. But, on the other hand, sometimes filmmakers spend a large portion of the project and lose a lot. Like Adipurush and Samrat Prithviraj, their manufacturers suffered huge losses. Today, we will talk about a movie that was the most expensive movie in India in the 90s, but then the manufacturer suffered a huge loss, and then the director of the film did not make any other movies. We are talking about the 1990 film Ajooba starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shahenshah of Indian Cinemas, which was released in 1990. Ajooba is a superhero film from the 90s, produced and directed by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Soviet film producer Gennadi Vasilyev.
The film stars Amitabh Bachchan as superhero Ajooba, along with Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Sonam, Shammi Kapoor, Dara Singh, Saeed Jaffrey and Amrish Puri, playing a major role. Ajooba, produced on a budget of 80 crore, was the most expensive Indian film to be produced until then, and is expected to be a comeback project of Amitabh Bachchan after a series of failed films. However, after his release on Eid weekend in April 1991, Ajooba proved to be a super box office failure. It received mixed reviews and was praised for its special visual effects and music, but the story, scripts and directions were mostly criticized.
The 1990 Mega-Flop starring 4 big superstars is the most expensive Indian film ever and uses international visual effects. But, despite this, Ajooba’s revenue in India was only Rs 35 billion, which turned out to be a huge disaster. In this way, the film is bigger than today’s adipurush, which lost Rs 22.5 crore and was made for Rs 5 billion.
Russian actress Ariadna Shengelaya also made her debut with Ajooba, but the film’s failure had such an impact that she never worked in India again. Ajooba achieved financial success in the Soviet Union and marked the last successful collaboration between India and the Soviet film industry.
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