Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

India’s biggest flop film made for Rs 45 crores, due to which the industry suffered a loss of 99.99%


Many such films were made in the Bollywood industry, which broke records and created history. But many such films were also seen in which so much money was spent in casting and VFX etc. that its budget skyrocketed. It was made for crores of rupees and after its release it could not earn even half of that amount at the box office, after which there was a lot of controversy. Today we are going to tell you about it, which was built with a budget of Rs 45 crore. But it proved to be India’s biggest flop. The industry had suffered a loss of 99.99%. Because the earning was only Rs 60 thousand. There is no need to go too far. Because this history was created in the year 2023 itself. Ajay Bahl’s film had such a bad reputation after its release that no OTT platform has given it a place till date. Here we are talking about ‘The Lady Killer’, which has the title of India’s biggest box flop. There were two such faces in this film, whose career was nothing special. Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar.

500 tickets of high budget film were not sold

This crime-thriller film was made under the banner of Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and its making started in 2022. It is said that due to re-shooting of this film several times in the year 2023, its budget had increased. Due to which the figure reached 45 crores. Luck was so bad that it did not find any distributor after release. Only 293 tickets were sold in India on the first day and its lifetime collection was less than Rs 1 lakh.

_the lady Killer

Makers had released the incomplete film, OTT deal was broken

There are many reasons given for the flop of Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar starrer film. Reports claim that The Lady Killer was released incomplete. Its climax was also not shot completely. The director had initially accepted this but later reversed his/her stance. It is also said that the film got only a token release. The makers had also signed a deal with Netflix for its streaming in December 2024. But for this he/she had to release the film in November 2023. Because if they had not done so the deal would have become invalid. For this reason he/she released the incomplete film.

Where can you watch the biggest flop ‘The Lady Killer’?

The film was not even promoted. An event was held for the trailer release but after that the actors did not promote it. Then when the movie was released, its performance was very poor. The tickets stopped being sold. As a result, its streaming release was also canceled as Netflix backed out. Eventually, ‘The Lady Killer’ was released for free on T-Series’ YouTube channel in September, 2024. The film has received 3.5 million views on YouTube so far, but the comments are filled with criticism.

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