Sometimes even the massive budget cant guarantee box office success. A similar case happened with the 1991 pan-India film Shanti Kranti. At the time it was Indias most expensive film ever made on a staggering budget of Rs 10 crore. The film had countrys biggest superstars- Rajinikanth Nagarjuna and Juhi Chawla. It was Kannada actor and director V Ravichandrans dream project. He released Shanti Kranti in four languages- Kannada Telugu Tamil and Hindi. He starred as a hero in the Kannada version. While Rajinikanth acted in the Tamil and Hindi versions Nagarjuna starred in the Telugu one. Juhi Chawla Khushbu and Anant Nag were part of all the three versions. Despite the star-studded cast enormous budget and big publicity across India Kranti flopped badly. It earned just Rs 8 crore at the box office. Moreover the audience didnt relate with the plot and critics gave disappointing reviews. The money spent on the film was never recovered. Ravichandran wrote directed and produced the film all by himself. He even borrowed the land and built grand-scale sets. After Kranti flopped he became bankrupt. He survived afterward by taking on small-budget films and remakes to revive. Shanti Kranti was the most expensive Indian film at the time a record that stood till Trimuti broke it four years later. This film is one of the examples that not all big-budget movies become hits. Some crash badly and leave the makers in massive losses.