Ranked: The Most Expensive Bollywood Films Of The First Half Of 2018

Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor starrer 102-Not Out under the direction of Umesh Shukla, was basically a comedy-drama, where they are playing father and son. Since in this movie there was so much of prosthetics to maintain a proper look of a father who was 102 years old and a son who is 75 years played by Amitabh and Rishi Kapoor respectively, this movie needed to be high budget affair. With its unique concept, this film did well on box office.

This spy thriller is an adaptation of Harinder Sikka’s novel Calling Sehmat which was based on a real-life event. This film is directed by Meghna Gulzar starring Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Jaideep Ahalawat. It is based on the situation prior to the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War so for giving it a proper look according to that period with many beautiful effects a proper budget was needed. With the budget of 38 crores this movie become a blockbuster.

Once again Luv Ranjan with Pyar Ka Punchnama fame Kartik Aryan gave another great hit in a row with Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. What we all need to know is that with a budget of 40 crores this movie was a big hit. This movie is basically a Bromance vs. Romance affair.

Shashanka Ghosh directed Veere Di Wedding and it was a big comeback for Kareena Kapoor after her maternity break. Basically, it was female-oriented comedy film and it stars Sonam Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania. The story revolves around the lives of four childhood friends and how their life changed over time from what they expected. With the rich look of this movie, we can imagine the high budget of this movie of 42 crores was neede.

This movie is based on the first nuclear bomb test conducted by the Indian Army at Pokhran in 1998, under the leadership of India's future President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, during the time of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure. John Abraham plays the lead member of the Pokhran Nuclear test team. Since the movie needs the same visual richness as that in real event, so for that it must be same kind of arrangements and setup which made it a little higher in budget.

Action thriller Baaghi 2 is a sequel of Baaghi which was a big hit. This movie is produced by Sajid Nadiavala. The movie was full of action with lots of weapons, helicopters and big-budget vehicles, well after the extensive use of automobiles the action movie needed to have high a big budget. It was made on a budget of 59 crores, this movie made its place in hit movies list.

Raj Kumar Gupta directorial starring Ajay Devgn, Ilena D'cruz is a real-life story from 1981 about an income tax officer. It has nothing extravagant to boast of in screenplay but still had a high budget of 72 crores. The film is loosely based on what is purported to be the longest-running Income Tax raid in history.

Starring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor and produced by Twinkle Khanna, Padman is an effort to undo the hysteria around menstruation. With a strong message and a great storyline, Padman was a hit and it was based on the real-life story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, Padman was made on a budget of 76 crores.

If it is a Salman Khan movie how can we think about a low budget? With lots of actions and use of weapons and vehicles blowing up Race 3 was made on a very high budget of 185 crores. Besides Salman, there is a big star-cast in this movie. This film features Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Daisy Shah under the direction of Remo D’souza.

As we all know about movies of Sanjay Leela Bhansali can never be of low budget. Padmaavat is the epic period drama basically, it was based on epic poem Padmaavat by Malik Muhammad Jayasi and it stars Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, and Shahid Kapoor. Besides this Aditi Rao Hyadri and Jim Sarbh were also in a movie in a supporting role. Since it was completely based on period in history so the set and cast needed to look right and the movie needed to be of a high budget. With abudget of 215 crores this is the most expensive movie till now.