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Many famous businessmen have invested money in Bollywood films. However as successful as these businessmen were in their business they suffered huge losses in the film industry. Today we will tell you about such a businessman who is currently absconding from the country. But years ago when he tried his hand in films he suffered losses worth crores. The name of this movie which was released 21 years ago is Rakt. This movie was released in 2004. This supernatural horror movie had not one or two but 6 stars. The movie was directed by Mahesh V Manjrekar and produced by Vijay Mallya along with Sunil Shetty. According to the news published in the Indian Express Vijay Mallya co-produced the film along with Sunil Shetty. Sunil even worked as an actor in the film. Apart from Sunil Shetty it also featured Bipasha Basu Dino Morea Sanjay Dutt Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora. The story of this film is of Bipasha Basu who is playing the role of Drishti Nair. Drishti has such power that she can see the future through playing cards. Drishtis relationship breaks and she goes to live in a small village. Where she meets Mohit whose role is played by Sunil Shetty. He is a mechanic and he needs mental treatment. Because his father has tortured him a lot since childhood. The budget of this film was 12 crores whereas the film collected only Rs 8 crore. This means that the makers suffered a loss of 4 crores in making this film. Vijay Mallya had a very strong plan in the film production line. But after seeing the bad condition of the film Mallya gave up. While talking to Economic Times Vijay Mallya had said- We have a big plan to invest in films. The special thing is that Ratan Tata invested money in films at that time. His company made the film Aitbaar with Bipasha John Abraham and Amitabh Bachchan. However Ratan Tata also suffered a huge loss in this film and never invested money in films again. The same happened with Mallya. After suffering a huge loss he turned away from the film line. This film also got a rubbish rating of 3.8 on IMDb.