From the India Today archives (1984) | Bollywood's big budget survivors

As Bollywood debates the failure of Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, we rewind to the era of the super-successful Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra. How did they churn out so many blockbusters?

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