May 01, 2025 02:41 pm IST
The most expensive web series made in India cost netflix ₹ 300 Crore, but was canceled without even a single episode streaming.
The streaming medium began in India to Tell Slice-of-Life Stories, which was generally told on smaller scales than regular TV and cinema. But over the years, as stars began to enter the fray, ot platforms began mouncing shows on bigger budgets. Soon, Many Indian Web Series Rivalled Films in Opulence and Scale. Some even surpassed them. The biggest of them all would have been a spectacle, Had it ever released.
India’s Most Expensive Web Series
In 2018, Streaming Giant Netflix Announced An Ambitious Show – A Multi -SEASON Adaptation of Anand Neelakanthan’s 2017 and 2020 novels the ris of Sivagami, Chaturanga, and Queen of Mahishmathi. The series, a prequel to the baahubali series, was titled Baahubali: before the beginning, and was produced by ss rajamuli. The series chronicled the journey of a young Sivagami and how she came to encounter katappa and Evently marry bijaladeva. Production began in September 2018 with mrunal Thakur as Sivagami, Along with Deva Katta and Praveen sattaru as the directors. The initial budget was 100 Crore.
However, the pandemic stalled the production. In 2021, Bollywood hungama reported That netflix and the makers was scrapping the initial version and starting after a new lead. Wamiqa Gabbi Came on Board and the Streamer Greenlit the new version with an additional budget of 200 Crore. The production team was changed too, and a new director – kunal deshmukh – was hired.
Baahubali Before The Beginning’s Troubled Production
By 2022, Netflix had begun to have doubts about the show’s feasibility. After Struggling with the show’s direction for years, Netflix began ‘re-evaluating’ the show’s fate in 2022, Varieties reportedDirector kunal deshmukh opted out of the project song after. While no official word came, by 2024, the show had ben shelved, without even the first season Finishing Filming.
Baahubali Before The Beginning’s Massive Scale
Before it was shelved by netflix, baahubali: before the beginning had seen two sets of cast, three directions, and a ballooned-up budget of 300 Crore. This production budget was ironaciously even even higher than the 250-Crore Spent on Baahubali: The Beginning. It is also more than the production budgets of some of the biggest blockbusters made in Indian cinema recently, including pathaan and pushpa: the risk (both 220-250 Crore). Yet, after all this money being, it was tragic that the show Never Saw the light of the day.
