In the last one month, at least two projects involving Telugu star heroes have seen a rejig of production schedules due to the ongoing Iran-Israel/US war. The Jordan schedule of Jr NTR's Dragon was cut short. And an international schedule of Allu Arjun's movie with Atlee was cancelled.
This is happening in Bollywood, too. Shah Rukh Khan's King has seen a cancellation of a foreign schedule. What are the options at hand? Can producers commission sets that look like foreign locations and be done with it? Costs will overshoot dramatically in that case.
A recent report by Bollywood Hungama analyzes the math. "A 20-to-25-day shoot abroad (in a city like Dubai) involving stars, crew, equipment, permissions, accommodation and logistics can easily cost anywhere between Rs. 25 crore and Rs. 35 crore, depending on scale. But when that same visual world has to be recreated in India, the economics can spiral... What could have been captured in 25 shooting days on a real location can suddenly become a 45 to 60 day process in a controlled environment. A schedule that might have cost Rs. 30 crore externally can easily swell to Rs. 60 crore," the report observes.
