Big B in Rs 25-cr BR Chopra film

<div class="section1"><div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="77.7%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><script language="javascript" src="Config?Configid=43376741"></script><br /><a href="javascript:popUp(&quot1;photopop?msid=187777&type=0&quot1;)"> <img border="0" align="left" src="/cms.dll/thumb?height=234&width=234&photoID=187777" hspace="12"" /></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Click to enlarge picture</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">NEW DELHI: Despite a lukewarm response at the domestic box office to its Big B-Hema Malini starrer family drama,<span style="" font-style:="" italic=""> Baghban</span>, producers BR Films are in the process of revving up their 48-year old movie production outfit.On the anvil are two films over the next six months – one a period drama with superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan in the lead, and the other a small budget one. <br /><br />The company, that has become an active player in the television software business over the last two decades, is firming up fresh business plan which envisages making six or seven TV serial/soaps each year, at least two movies annually, apart from consolidating its film distribution business.<br /><br />The Big B-Salman Khan starrer, expected to hit the production floors early 2004, would be set in the British era with a budget in excess of Rs 25 crore. The other film – currently at the scripting stage - which Ravi Chopra, managing director, BR Films, describes as a "quicky" would be a start-to-finish project spread over 40 days. It would get into production in November this year, with a budget of around Rs 4 crore.<br /><br />Multi-starrer <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Baghban</span>, whose star cast includes Salman Khan and Mahima Choudhary, was made with a budget of around Rs 12 crore. Chopra, however, is confident that the movie will recover investments made by producers and the distributors over a three-week run, with the overseas markets expected to chip in a tidy amount. The film was sold at moderate price of around Rs 1.2 crore per territory in the domestic theatrical circuit. <br /><br /><a href="/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=223973">Read more</a><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""> >></span></div> </div>