India, May 12 -- Indian cinema is no longer playing it safe - it's playing it epic. In the last two decades, both Bollywood and regional powerhouses like Tollywood, Kollywood, and Sandalwood have radically transformed the scale of filmmaking. We've gone from masala flicks with cardboard sets to multi-million spectacles with the production value of Hollywood blockbusters. And behind this evolution? Sky-high budgets and even loftier ambitions. Welcome to the era of the most expensive Bollywood and Indian movies ever made - where producers are more than just financiers; they're dreamers betting big on scale, vision, and global appeal.

These films aren't just made; they're engineered - with VFX teams flown in from Los Angeles, mythological e...