First Multi Starrer Hindi Movie: People often like multi-starrer films. This is because many stars are seen in a film who play different types of characters. People like those films and many such films were superhits at the box office. But the first multi-starrer film in Hindi cinema came in the year 1965, named ‘Waqt’ and in this film many stars were seen together for the first time.
The film Waqt was released in 1965 in which not one, two or five but many such stars were seen who were superstars of that era. BR Chopra did this when he brought the film Waqt on the big screen and it was also the first color film of that company.
‘Waqt’ was Bollywood’s first multi-starrer film
The film Waqt was released on 28 July 1965 and was directed by Yash Chopra. Actors like Balraj Sahni, Sunil Dutt, Raj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Sadhana, Sharmila Tagore, Manmohan Krishna, Madan Puri, Achala Sachdev were seen in this film.
The film had music by Ravi and was made under the production company of BR Chopra, which was the company of Yash Chopra’s elder brother. The film Waqt was the first multi-starrer film of Hindi cinema and the first colour film made under the company of BR Chopra.
box office collection of ‘Waqt’
The film Waqt, directed by Yash Chopra, was a blockbuster film of that era. According to Sacnilk, the budget of the film Waqt was Rs 1 crore while the film collected Rs 6 crore worldwide at the box office. The song ‘Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen’ from this film was a superhit, which Yash Chopra used in many of his films in different ways.
bollywood multi starrer movies
After the film Waqt, Hindi cinema includes many multi-starrer films like ‘Sholay’, ‘The Burning Train’, ‘Rajput’, ‘Nagin’, ‘Mohabbatein’, ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, ‘No Problem’, ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’, ‘Three Idiots’. Most of these films proved to be superhits at the box office.
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