Click to play videoMumbai: This year has certainly been a mega bucks year for Bollywood with most films crashing records with their opening week collections.
Now Shishir Kunder's directorial debut Jaan-E-Mann is in news for making tonnes of moolah even before its release.
All set to hit the screens in Diwali, the Salman Khan-Preity Zinta-Akshay Kumar starrer Jaan-e-Mann has fetched a never-before sum of Rs 7.5 crore for its Mumbai territory.
Distribution giant Ashtavinayak Cinevision made the whopping offer to the film's producer Sajjid Nadiadwala even while the film was still under production and coughed up the money as soon as principal photography wrapped.
Tongues had been wagging in Bollywood that Ashtavinayak might take their offer off the table after the film ran into rough weather with Salman Khan's arrest in the chinkara-poaching case, delaying the film's shoot.
But with money having exchanged hands, Jaan-e-Mann is now the only film that has fetched such money for a single territory.
"I had confidence in Sajjid, his marketing, the production house and the huge star cast," said director, Ashtvinayak Cinevision, Rupen Amlani.
"For my last film, Mujhse Shaadi Karoge, we had used the same distributors and no-one is over paid or under paid in the industry, so it's the right price," said filmmaker Sajjid Nadiadwala.
Shirish Kundar's directorial debut, Jaan-e-Mann, is a musical love story set in New York.
Made on a budget of more than Rs 30 crore, Nadiadwala plans to release more than 1100 prints of the film.
So this Diwali will definitely see the sparks fly when Jaan-e-mann takes on Farhan Aktar's Don at the marquee.
(With inputs from Janice Sequeira)
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