7 Low Budget Films That Broke The Film Industry

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Crowdfunding bukanlah konsep baru dalam perfilman India. Kembali Pada tahun 1976, pembuat film Shyam Benegal membuat film "Manthan" dengan mengumpulkan Rs 2 masing-masing dari lakh peternak sapi perah di Gujrat. Film ini memenangkan Penghargaan Film Nasional untuk Film Fitur Terbaik dalam bahasa Hindi dan Penghargaan Film Nasional untuk Skenario Terbaik. 500,000 petani Gujrat mendanai film ini untuk menjadikannya jumlah investor individu terbesar untuk sebuah film. Bukankah ini menginspirasi? Ini menginspirasi kami untuk memikirkan potensi crowdfunding sebagai platform untuk mewujudkan impian. Idenya tidak membatasi dirinya hanya padapembuat film, tetapi ini berlaku untuk siapa saja yang memiliki ide atau semangat apa pun.

Masih banyak lagi pemimpi di dunia perfilman, selain Shyam Benegal yang merambah dunia perfilman. Crowdfunding untuk membawa proyek impian mereka di layar.

Tidak terlalu jauh dalam sejarah, sutradara Onir (Anirban Dhar) digunakan platform crowdfunding untuk mengumpulkan Rs 1 crore yang setara dengan sepertiga dari total anggaran untuk filmnya "I AM". Film ini menerima penghargaan nasional dalam dua kategori dan menjadi preseden bagi pembuat film India untuk menjelajahi dunia crowdfunding.

Berikut adalah 10 film Anggaran Rendah yang mengguncang Bollywood dan memberi contoh tentang bagaimana film dapat menjadi besar tanpa pemeran bintang yang glamor dan uang rumah produksi yang besar:

Dadu Pembohong

Dadu Pembohong This film, written and directed by Geetu Mohandas, has Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa in lead roles. The film explores the problems with migration to cities and exploitation of laborers through the story of a mother living in a village whose husband goes missing after having to travel in search of work.
The film had its world premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival in the year 2013. This film was screenedat Sundance Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam, in January 2014. The film received two National Film Awards, including Best Actress for Geetanjali Thapa and the Best Cinematography for Rajeev Ravi at the 61^st Penghargaan Film Nasional. Film tersebut merupakan entri resmi India untuk Film Berbahasa Asing Terbaik untuk 87^th Penghargaan akademi. Film ini dibuat dengan anggaran rendah dan selesai dalam waktu satu bulan.
Khosla Ka Ghosla The comedic movie was the directorial debut of Dibakar Banerjee. The film revolved around a middle-class family from Delhi that falls in the trap of land mafias and comes out successful. This movie had veteran actors like Boman Irani, Anupam Kher, Praveen Dabas, Vinay Pathak, Tara Sharma and the late Navin Nischol.
The film is written by Jaideep Sahni,whose previouswork included Company and Chak DE! India. The movie was made on a budget which was less than Rs 3 crores and went ahead to collect approximately Rs. 8 crore on box office. It was remade into Tamil in 2008 as Poi Solla Porom. Khosla Ka Ghosla went on to win National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi for the year 2006.
Vicky Donor This Indian romantic comedy was released in 2012 and directed by Shoojit Sircar. The movie was made under a budget of Rs. 5 crores. The movie became popular as it is known to be the movie that changed the way Bollywood looks at small budget films, as this low budget movie went on to collect Rs 65 crores on the box office.The film featured newbies Ayushmann Khurrana and Yami Gautam and also had Annu Kapoor and Dolly Ahluwalia in lead roles.The movie was about the sensitive topics of Sperm donation and infertility and hence, made it big and remained afloat for longer than expected.
The film won National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 60^th Penghargaan Film Nasional. Film ini menghasilkan keuntungan 700% di box office. Begitu banyak untuk keberhasilan anggaran rendah.
Judul Titli is written and directed by Kanu Behl and stars Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Shashank Arora, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi. This movie showcases the essence of volatility of a society where violence lies uneasily just below the surface. This movie premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in India on October 30, 2015.
Titli went on to win Best Film at Seattle South Asian Film Festival and many other international awards. The film collected Rs 1.75 crore in its first week.
Sulaiman Keeda Sulemani Keeda is a slacker comedy that is directed by Amit V. Masurkar and produced by Tulsea Pictures. It was first screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in 2013. The movie features Naveen Kasturia, Mayank Tiwari and Aditi Vasudev as protagonists and is about two budding writers and their dream of winning the ticket to Bollywood with their movie script named Sulemani Keeda.
The movie received positive review all around. Roger Avary, the co-writer of Pulp Fiction, emailed the team “[Sulemani Keeda] reminds me of my early years with Quentin Torantino! A free-wheeling, manic comedy about how the folly of ambition can alter a friendship.”
Aankhon Dekhi Aankhon Dekhi adalah sebuah film drama India tahun 2013 yang ditulis dan disutradarai oleh Rajat Kapoor dan dibintangi oleh Rajat Kapoor dan Sanjay Mishra. Ini adalah film pembuka di 8^th Festival Film Asia Selatan Internasional Mosaic Tahunan 2014. Film ini memenangkan Aktris Pendukung Terbaik untuk Seema Pahwa dan Cerita Terbaik dan Pemeran Ensemble Terbaik di Screen Awards Ceremony 2015. Film ini menceritakan kisah seorang pria berusia akhir lima puluhan, yang setelah serangkaian peristiwa memutuskan dia hanya akan percaya apa yang dia lihat melalui matanya sendiri dan tidak terbawa oleh desas-desus. Film ini mendapat pujian kritis yang luar biasa.
Lulus BA B.A. Pass, a 2013 Hindi neo noir film was produced by Narendra Singh, directed by Ajay Bahl, and stars Shilpa Shukla, Shadab Kamal, Rajesh Sharma, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya in lead roles.
The film is based on the 2009 short story “The Railway Aunty” by Mohan Sikka. The story revolves around the life of Mukesh who stays at his Aunt’s house after losing his parents to a car accident. Apart from his love for chess, he falls into the trap of an older woman who turns him into a boy of pleasures for other elder women, which in turn leads him into the world of heinous crimes. The movie is about hope for a better life for the protagonist and his sisters and ends at a very sad note.

Film memenangkan banyak penghargaan termasuk Penghargaan Filmfare 2014 untuk Aktris Terbaik (Kritik), Penghargaan Layar untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam Peran Negatif (Perempuan) dan Penghargaan Layar untuk Cerita Terbaik.

Ketujuh film ini bertahan kuat di box office, bahkan setelah produksi anggaran rendah dan kehilangan bintang dan kru terkenal.

Crowdfunding membuka jalan bagi banyak film semacam itu yang mampu mengubah wajah Bollywood dan membuka posisi bagi para pemain dan pemikir baru dan berbakat untuk menampilkan ide-ide mereka di layar perak.