Indian cinema has been witnessing the greatest time in its history. Nowadays the entire film industry is focused on delivering a pan-India film. From South Cinema to Bollywood the number of pan-India films has increased in the last few years. After Baahubali the craze for pan-India films has increased. After KGF Pushpa Jawan Baahubali and RRR many Pan India films have created history by earning at the box office. Since then films of big superstars are being made into pan-India films. But do you know that 77 years ago a pan-India film was made in Indian cinema which created a stir at the box office? Lets know more about it. Which was the countrys first pan-India film? Made in 1948 with a small budget of Rs 30 lakh this film earned a lot of money at the box office. In those days films were not dubbed but the makers dream was to make this film a pan-India film. Then this film was released in different languages and it became the countrys first pan-India film. We are talking about the Kollywood film Chandralekha which was directed by SS Vasan. The distributor of this film was Tarachand Barjatya the founder of Hindi film production house Rajshri Productions and he did the Hindi dubbing of this film. How much did the nations first pan-India film earn? Not only was this film dubbed but many scenes were re-shot. Huge sets and big war scenes were seen in the film. The film was loved in both Tamil and Hindi versions. Chandralekhas budget was Rs 30 lakh. The film earned Rs 1.55 crore in the Hindi version while the total collection was Rs 4 crore. Chandralekha even surpassed this iconic film to rewrite history Chandralekha also broke the record of Ashok Kumars film Kismat (1943 - the first film to earn Rs 1 crore). At the same time the record of earning of this film was broken after 69 years. Talking about the star cast of the film TR Rajakumari MK Radha Ranjan MS Sundari Bai and L Narayan Rao played important roles in it.