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Released
1991 · FILM

Godfather

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
150 min
Language
ML
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

The film is a retelling of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” that focuses on the rivalry between the Anjooran and Anappara families and the consequences that arise when two members of those families fall in love.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by K R GaurishankarShot by Venu IscScored by S Balakrishnan

Box Office

1991 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 39× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$700K

Budget$18K
Worldwide gross$700K
break-even (2.5×)

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