Monsoon Wedding: When it talks about success on the global stage of Indian films, then the name of Shah Rukh Khan or Aamir Khan is first remembered. For the 90s, Shah Rukh Khan had achieved amazing stardom from his films abroad. But a film that came in the year 2001 in which there was neither a big actor nor a big budget film, but still this film left behind in the foreign gross of Shah Rukh Khan’s films at that time.

The film Monsoon Wedding made a blast in foreign theaters

The film, which came out in the year 2001, is named ‘Monsoon Wedding’. Talking about the budget of this film, it was prepared in just 5 crores. The film was directed by famous film maker Meera Nair. It was an Indian film with the help of companies from India as well as America, France, Germany and Italy.

Shahrukh left behind the collection of two superhit films

This year, two big films of Shah Rukh’s career ‘Ashoka’ and ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ were released. These films received a lot of response in theaters abroad. Nevertheless, films earned just 14 million i.e. 60 crores. At the same time, the film Monsoon Wedding earned 60 crores in America and Canada alone. While the film’s worldwide collection was a bang of 145 crores. It was the highest grossing Indian film until 15 years later, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dangal did not leave it behind.

There was no big film star in the film

The story of the film Monsoon Wedding is of a middle Punjabi family in Delhi, which shows confusion, love, emotion, quarrels and culture during the wedding preparations. The special thing about this film was that there was no big face in it. In this, only television celebs were cast. There were celebs like Naseeruddin Shah, Lillet Dubey, Vijay Raj, Shefali Shah, Rajat Kapoor, Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Parvin Dabas. Along with this, there were three new faces like Vasundhara Das, Randeep Hooda, and Ram Kapoor.