India's most expensive film was Shah Rukh Khan's biggest flop, became first Indian movie to collect Rs 1 crore on opening day, still tanked at box office, earned only Rs...

Trimurti was first launched in early 1994 with Shah Rukh Khan, Jackie Shroff, and Sanjay Dutt with Mukul S Anand as the director and Subhash Ghai as the producer. Here is the picture from the launch event of the action drama film. It became one of the most anticipated Hindi released, until it went into trouble after Sanjay Dutt's arrest.

Sanjay Dutt had even shot for some scenes in Trimurti, but he was arrested for illegal possession of arms and ammunition used in the 1993 Bombay blasts. Producer Subhash Ghai replaced him with Anil Kapoor in the movie. This led to reshoot of some scenes, delays in the production, and eventual increase in the budget.

When Trimurti was finally released in December 1995, its budget had reached Rs 11 crore, making it the most expensive Indian film at that time. The action drama did have a record-breaking opening, becoming the first Indian film to earn above Rs 1 crore net in India on its opening day, but poor reviews and negative word of mouth caused the movie to crash in its first week itself. The Shah Rukh, Anil, Jackie-starrer ultimately ended up earning Rs 8 crore net in India, and proved to be one of the biggest flops in Bollywood.

31 years after Trimurti, Shah Rukh Khan, Jackie Shroff, and Anil Kapoor are all set to reunite in the upcoming action thriller King, slated to release in 2026. The Siddharth Anand directorial also features Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Rani Mukerji, Jaideep Ahlawat, Arshad Warsi, Abhay Verma, Raghav Juyal, Saurabh Shukla, and Suhana Khan.

Trimurti was the last released movie of filmmaker Mukul S Anand, who passed away due to a heart attack while shooting Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt-starrer Dus in 1997. That film was left unfinised, but another film of the same title Dus, featuring Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed Khan, and Pankaj Kapur, was released in 2005. Anand had previously directed famous films such as Agneepath, Hum, Khuda Gawah, Sultanat, and Insaaf.