SS Rajamouli’s highly anticipated next, Varanasi, continues to keep the audience hooked. Starring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra, and Prithviraj Sukumaran, the film has already completed a year in production, as it eyes for April 7, 2027 release date. Meanwhile, the budget of the ambitious project has been revealed and it hints that the film could become the most expensive film to be ever made in the country.

Varanasi budget revealed

If reports are to be believed, the grand film is reportedly mounted on a massive Rs 1,400 crore budget. With a colossal film like that, it is being positioned among the most expensive Indian films ever made. Recently, an international profile revealed the project’s estimated cost at USD 150 million (around Rs 1,400 crore). The massive scale of the film alone signals at Rajamouli’s continued ambition to take Indian epic storytelling and present it with Hollywood spectacle.