Top 5 Costliest Movies ever made in Bollywood

There have been lot movies in Bollywood on which lot of money has been spent for its production. Listing here the top 5 movie with highest budget ever in Bollywood.

1 Ra.One (2011)

      BUDGET : 125 crores + 52 crores for marketing alone

       Ra.one is a superhero science fiction directed by Anubhav Sinha, this is by
far the most expensive Bollywood film till date. Shahrukh Khan essayed the
superhero character G.one whereas 'Ra.one', the antagonist was played by
Arjun Rampal and main heroine was sizzling kareena kapoor. Also Rajnikanth,
Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka Chopra made cameo appearances in the movie.
       Ra.one being considered as a technological breakthrough among Indian
films was made with a budget of 125 crores. Further, 52 crores were spent
for marketing strategies including viral marketing, a nine-month publicity
campaign, brand tie-ups, merchandise, video games etc.
This movie was produced by red chilies entertainment. The movie received
mixed critical responses. Ra.one collected around 271 crores (US$49.32
million) worldwide including the collections from dubbed versions.

2 BLUE (2009)

     BUDGET : 120

      Directed by Anthony D’Souza and written by American writers Joshua Lurie
and Bryan M.Sullivan, 'Blue' was underwater thriller adventure film. Movie
was released in 2009 with a star cast like Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara
Dutta and Zayed Khan. The movie was loosely based on hollywood movie 'Into
the blue'
      Produced by Dhillin Mehta, the movie received negative reviews from
critics. Total production cost neared 120 crores but the movie failed to
make an impact in boxoffice. Its overall collection is estimated to be 52.5
crores and was declared as a Boxoffice Failure.

3 Don 2 (2011)

BUDGET : 70 Crores

       Don 2 is the sequel of the movie Don(2006) starring Shahrukh khan and
Priyanka Chopra in lead. The movie was directed by Farhan Akhtar and
produced combinely by Ritesh Sidhwani, Shahrukh Khan, Farhan Akhtar. Don 2
was filmed in India, Malaysia, Germany, Thailand and Switzerland.
Don 2 received mixed critical reception in India and mostly positive
response overseas. The movie was made with a budget of 70 crores and its
worldwide gross is around 228 crores.

4 Ghajini (2008)

BUDGET : 65 Crores

        Directed and written by AR Murugadoss, it is the remake of his own superhit
tamil film in the same. Aamir Khan and Asin in the lead, the film was the
biggest hit collecting around 190 crores. With a budget of 65 crores, it
was the first bollywood film to cross the 100 crore mark during its release
in 2008. During its release it became the highest grossing movies of all
time until broken by another film of Aamir Khan '3 Idiots'.

5 Bodyguard (2011)

BUDGET : 64 Crores

          Directed by Siddique, it is the second remake of Malayalam movie
'Bodygaurd' which was also remade in Tamil as 'Kaavalan'. Produced by Atul
Agnihotri, the movie was lead by Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Bodygaurd
received to mixed positive response from critics and during its release it
received highest ever opening day collection. With a budget of 64 crores,
its worldwide collection touched whooping 230 crores.