Shah Rukh to make Bollywood's costliest movie

Indian screen superstar Shah Rukh Khan is spending an estimated Rs.1 billion for perhaps the costliest Bollywood movie to be made so far. The movie for children will be in the VFX medium, using computer-generated special effects.

It will be a movie featuring a lot of children who wish for bad things, but get a shocking reality check when they come true, Shah Rukh told Patrick Frater of Hollywood's top trade magazine Variety in a recent interview in Berlin.



Shah Rukh said he was planning the movie under his home banner, Red Chillies Productions. he new venture - to be directed by Anubhav Sinha - had a budget of $25 million (almost Rs.1 billion), making it the most expensive Bollywood movie to date.

The VFX medium uses computer-generated effects that give movies a fantasy-like feel. The best example of a VFX movie is Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, where computers made the dragons fly.

SRK said he'd love to do an action-comic movie like Chris Rock and Jackie Chan.

"As a producer I would like to make an Indian film that genuinely crosses borders, not a crossover film, where you forget that it has a language, like Life Is Beautiful. I didn't realise at first that it was an Italian film. Or The Lives of Others. I think I can do it in my lifetime, maybe in the next five years."

Shah Rukh admitted to the interviewer that his last year's home production, Om Shanti Om was full of clichés of Indian cinema. "But it is full of heart. I think we need to make more movies like this and gradually more and more people will come to like that," he said.