UAE billionaire is funding India's most expensive film of all time

That India is the world's most prolific film-producing nation is well-known. 

It makes over 2,000 films in more than 10 languages every year — a feat unmatched elsewhere in the world. And grand dreams require grand budgets. 

One such is The Mahabharata, a multi-lingual retelling of the Sanskrit epic, that will be the costliest Indian movie ever made.

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UAE-based billionaire B.R. Shetty will reportedly be putting in $150 million in the production of The Mahabharata. That is five times the budget of Baahubali (2015) — India's most expensive movie thus far — that became a gigantic success across the globe. Read more...

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