The First Ever Indian Film To Release In IMAX? It Wasn’t Baahubali Or RRR!

Nowadays, many big-ticket Hollywood movies are filmed in the IMAX format. Sinners, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Thunderbolts, you name it – all these were filmed in the IMAX format. For the unversed, IMAX is a high-resolution film format that is designed to deliver an ultra-immersive movie-watching experience. Movies that are either shot with IMAX cameras or digitally remastered for IMAX look noticeably crisper and sharper. To achieve the desired effect, larger screens and powerful audio are also used in specially equipped movie theatres.

Some Recent Indian IMAX Movies

Not just Hollywood films, many Indian filmmakers have stepped up their game and have adopted the IMAX technology for their films. Some of the recent IMAX Indian films were Chhaava, Sikandar, Animal, Fighter, Maidaan, RRR, Kalki 2898 AD, KGF: Chapter 2, Jawan, and Sky Force, among others. But do you know which was the first ever Indian film that was released in the IMAX format?

First Indian IMAX Movie

The first ever Indian film that was released in the IMAX format was neither Baahubali nor RRR – it was the third instalment of the Dhoom franchise – Dhoom 3, which featured Aamir Khan and Abhishek Bachchan in the lead roles. The film was digitally remastered in the IMAX format with proprietary IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology, as per a report by The Hollywood Reporter.