India's most expensive TV show was bigger than Kalki 2898 AD, Adipurush, RRR; each episode cost Rs 4 cr, was banned in..

Television shows in India started at the smallest scale possible. Krishi Darshan, the first proper TV show from India, was more informational and had a shoe string budget. But Indian TV has come a long way since then.

While most reality shows’ budgets are skewed due to the hosts’ high salaries, fiction shows are a different ball game. Historical TV shows have taken the lead in terms of scale in Hindi entertainment and the biggest of them all dwarfs even films when it comes to budget. The most expensive Indian TV show In 2019, Siddharth Kumar Tewary conceptualised a mythological show based on Ramayana titled Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush.

The show was mounted on a massive scale, with reports claiming that each episode had a budge of Rs 4 crore when it went on the floors. Mid-Day reported that the total production cost of the show was a whopping Rs 650 crore, higher than any Indian show or film before or since. How Ram Siya Ke Lav Kush beat RRR and Adipurush’s budgets At the time of the show’s release, the most expensive Indian film was Saaho, with a reported budget of Rs 350 crore.

Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush almost doubled that. In 2023, a film that was also based on Ramayana – Adipurush – became the most expensive Indian film with a reported budget of Rs 550 crore. It was still less than the total cost of Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush.

Several other big films – RRR (Rs 500 crore), Brahmastra (Rs 400 crore), and Jawan (Rs 300 crore) had budgets way less than this TV series. The upcoming.