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This crime drama film, which came in the year 1990, opened a record -breaking opening and was commercially successful at the box office. The main actor was paid Rs 1 crore.
Today, actors who charge the highest fees in India demand hundreds of crores. Last year, according to reports, Shah Rukh Khan earned Rs 100 crore for every film for Pathan and Jawan. It is different from the remuneration obtained on the basis of profit-sharing. But, do you know who was the first Bollywood actor to earn Rs 1 crore per film? He was neither Shah Rukh Khan, nor Dilip Kumar nor Rajinikanth, who is the first hero to take a fee of 1 crore.
Who is the first Bollywood actor who earned ₹ 1 crore? : The year 1990 is a crime drama film inspired by the main subjects of Mahabharata, but it shows a different story from the point of view of Bhima and Arjun – which is different from the original epic of Vyas. This film directed and produced. C. Bokadia did it and Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Prada played the lead roles in it. The film started a record breaking and was commercially successful at the box office. The name of this film is ‘Aaj Ka Arjun’.
Every filmmaker’s dream is to work with Amitabh Bachchan, but do you know that once a director offered him ₹ 1 crore to cast him in the film? At that time no other actor was offered such a huge fee. Jaya Prada played a female lead role with her and the film was directed. C. Bokadia did it. It was also his first direction film.
Talking to Prabhat Khabar in an interview, KC Bokadia had said that I was working as a producer before this film, due to which Amitabh ji’s manager was hesitant to do Big B film with me. He told me that Amit ji’s fee is Rs 80 lakh, while I knew that his fee was Rs 70 lakh at that time.
Bokadia further said that perhaps he thought that I would refuse to hear so much fees. But I said that I can also give them 1 crore rupees, because it is a matter of pride for me to do a film with such a big star. At that time, hardly any actor used to get 1 crore rupees.
Today’s box office collection of Arjun: Let us tell you that through this film, Big B got a hit film after a long time. Earlier, his films were flopping. ‘Today’s Arjun’ was made in a budget of Rs 2.70 crore. The film earned a worldwide 13 crore rupees.
‘Aaj Ka Arjun’ also featured Radhika, Suresh Oberoi, Kiran Kumar, Amrish Puri, Rishabh Shukla, Asrani and Anupam Kher. At the 36th Filmfare Awards, ‘Aaj Ka Arjun’ received two nominations, including Best Supporting Actress (Radhika) and Best Music Director (Lahiri). The music of the film was composed by Bappi Lahiri and its songs were written by Anjan. The song “Gori Hai Kaliyan” from the film is still memorable today.
