Bollywood cannot be complete without its naach ganas. Hence filmmakers leave no stone unturned to make the songs and dance picturisation mesmerizing. Millions of rupees are spent to shoot a single song. In a single song the hero and heroine change umpteen attires and locations. Budget for picturising a song many times goes haywire but producers don’t mind until the end result is incredible.

Recently Aditya Chopra spent over 5 Crores to shoot the song "Malang" from ‘Dhoom 3’ (2014) featuring Aamir Khan and the sizzling Katrina Kaif. The highlight of the song was that along with Aamir Khan and Katrina over 200 professional gymnasts did daredevil acts making the song edge of the seat thriller.

The song was publicized as Indian Cinema’s most expensive shot ever. To make the claim authentic the report added that the shooting of the song took 20 days and the artist were trained in the US.

Besides this Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha starrer ‘Boss’ (2013) had a song "Party All Night’ that was reportedly shot for a budget of Rs 6 Crore thus claiming to be film industry’s most expensive shot ever!

However filmmaker Rohit Shetty declined to believe as he stated that he had shot the song "Tha Kar Ke"... for his movie ‘Golmaal Returns’ in 2008 at the cost of Rs 6 Crore!!

Now there are reports about Sajid Khan’s song "Piya Ka Bazaar"... for his forthcoming movie ‘Humshakals’ being shoot for Rs. 2 crore and claims being made to be the most expensive song!!!

In the past Sanjay Leela Bhansali credited his song "Dola Re Dola..." in ‘Devdas’ as the most expensive song.

One wonders are these figures given in media genuine or are just publicity stunts to promote their movies.

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