{"id":73995,"date":"2025-08-11T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73995\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:01:07","slug":"covering-up-a-massive-rs-122-crore-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73995\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering up a massive Rs 122 crore budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sitaare-Zameen-Par31754885221.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"Covering up a massive Rs 122 crore budget\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aamir Khan has revealed that his latest film, Sitaare Zameen Par, was made on a budget of around \u20b9122 crore;\u00a0up from the initial \u20b996 crore after he bought out a partner who disagreed with his decision to reject lucrative OTT offers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Matthew Belloni\u2019s podcast The Town, Aamir admitted he is yet to recover the investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that I make the money back, and right now both YouTube and I are separately promoting it on the platform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s pay-per-view release on YouTube has reportedly exceeded expectations, with separate budgets allocated for its theatrical and digital runs.<\/p>\n<p>Industry analyst Komal Nahta claimed that Prime Video had offered \u20b9120 crore for the film, but Aamir turned it down.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by R. S. Prasanna, the movie has earned approximately \u20b9276 crore at the worldwide box office so far.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the pay-per-view model \u201ca great opportunity for indie filmmakers who don\u2019t get theatrical distribution,\u201d Aamir suggested it could open new avenues for smaller productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aamir Khan has revealed that his latest film, Sitaare Zameen Par, was made on a budget of around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,43626,206,52797,52796],"class_list":["post-73995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film-budget","tag-movies","tag-ott-rights","tag-sitaare-zameen-par"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}