This Bollywood film was the first to be insured!!!

Sekar Chandra
This bollywood film was the first to be insured!!!

Film producers spend crores of rupees to make films but it is not fixed whether the film will work or not. Many times, many producers have to suffer losses worth crores due to the flop of films made in big budgets. In such a situation, now the makers get their films insured. But do you know who started this trend in India?

Which bollywood film was the first to get insurance?

Let us tell you that subhash ghai had got his 1999 film 'Taal' insured for Rs 11 crore from United india Insurance. Thus, 'Taal' became the first indian film to be insured. This musical romantic drama, starring aishwarya Rai, Akshay Khanna and anil kapoor in the lead roles, received critical praise from critics and audiences for its direction, screenplay, performances and soundtrack. With this, this film, made for Rs 11 crore, earned Rs 22 crore in india and collected Rs 55 crore worldwide.

'Taal' was the fourth highest grossing film of 1999.

Let us tell you that after 'Hum Saath-Saath Hain', 'Biwi No. 1' and 'Hum dil De Chuke Sanam', Taal was the fourth highest grossing film of 1999. The success of 'Taal' gave stardom to the three lead actors Aishwarya, Akshay and Anil in Bollywood. Even before the release of 'Taal', its soundtrack had become the best-selling album of the year. Composed by AR rahman and written by anand Bakshi, these songs became classics and are people's favorites today.

'Taal' won 6 Filmfare Awards

In the year 2000, anil kapoor got the Best Supporting Actor for 'Taal', AR rahman got the Best Composer, anand Bakshi got the Best Lyricist for Ishq Bina, Alka Yagnik got the Best Female Playback singer for Taal Se Taal, Rakesh got the Best Sound Design. Ranjan got the award and Kabir Lal got the best cinematography award. Overall, 'Taal' had won 6 Filmfare Awards.

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