Every Bollywood movie of late seems to be in a battle to earn the title of “most expensive film ever”. But not Abbas-Mustan’s Players. Contrary to the usual B’town practice of presenting inflated budgets to garner publicity, the director duo have issued a statement that far from the reported `75-90 crore, Players has in fact cost them a comparatively modest `45 crore. By issuing the statement, they hope to avoid trade discussions on how Players will recover its production cost etc.
“I guess they understand that there’s no point in first making big statements and then giving out sundry details about recovering costs,” a trade source opines. “Anyway, audiences don’t watch a film based on how many crores have been pumped into it.”