`Housefull` is not a very expensive film: Sajid Nadiadwala

Sajid Nadiadwala is known for making expensive movies but the producer has tightened the purse strings for `Housefull`.

Mumbai: Sajid Nadiadwala is known for making expensive movies but the producer has tightened the purse strings for his upcoming Akshay Kumar starrer `Housefull`, which he says is not an expensive movie. Nadiadwala had roped in a string of Hollywood stars including Sylvester Stallone and Bondgirl Denise Richards in his last film `Kambakkth Ishq` but the Akshay Kumar-Kareena Kapoor starrer failed to create any magic at the box-office.

But despite the presence of stars like Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Riteish Deshmukh, Lara Dutta and Jiah Khan, this Sajid Khan directed movie was made in a reasonable budget, the producer said. "Let me state the budget of the film on record here. `Housefull` is just a 40-45 crores film. It was never an expensive film to begin with," Nadiadwala said. "My last release `Kambakkth Ishq` was expensive but that was because it had so many foreign actors. I have been making films for 25 years now and I am not mad to invest in something from where recovery becomes an issue," he said. PTI