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‘Dhurandhar is nightmare of pan-India biggies, Bollywood’: Ram Gopal Varma calls Aditya Dhar film ‘most discussed’ in last 50 years

In his latest tweet, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma claimed that the film industry is ignoring Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar because they feel threatened by it.

4 min readNew DelhiDec 25, 2025 01:14 PM IST

Ram Gopal Varma calls Dhurandhar 'most discussed' film since 50 years

Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar continues to rule the box office even after three weeks of release and is set to enter the Rs 1000 crore club soon. Amid Ranveer Singh starrer’s huge success, director Ram Gopal Varma has pointed out at a the silence from big names of Indian cinema, with no one appreciating the spy-thriller. He called Dhurandhar the ‘most discussed’ film since 50 years, and claimed that its a ‘nightmare’ for pan-India biggies.

On Thursday, the filmmaker took to his X handle to share his opinion about the film and why the industry has been ignoring it. “Whenever a path breaking and monstrous hit like #dhurandhar comes , the industry people will wish to ignore it because they will feel threatened by it due to their inability to match it’s standards ..So they will think of it as a nightmare, which will vanish when they wake up in their own films This is even more true of all the so called pan india biggies which are right now under various stages of production.. They were all written and mounted , modelled on the films made before #dhurandhar which is the exact opposite of what they all believed will work .. what’s even more worrisome is that #dhurandhar apart from being a omega hit also is the most discussed film since the last 50 years,” he wrote.

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RGV cited the example of a big, scary dog, which can haunt you just by existing and compared it to Dhurandhar. “Everyone of us experienced an incident like we going to visit someone’s house and we see a large scary looking dog which keeps staring at us .. Inspite of the owner assuring it’s harmless and advises us to ignore it , the tension will remain and will keep growing and we can’t resist seeing it from the corner of our eyes .. #Durandhar will be like that monstrous dog which will be invisibly pacing around in every production office wherever the upcoming biggies are being made .. They will try their level best to even avoid uttering the dog’s name, but it will keep loitering in all their minds.”

Whenever a path breaking and monstrous hit like #dhurandhar comes , the industry people will wish to ignore it because they will feel threatened by it due to their inability to match it’s standards ..So they will think of it as a nightmare, which will vanish when they wake up in…

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) December 25, 2025

He continued, “To that extent #dhurandhar will actually be like a HORROR film for all those makers who believed in the earlier template of VFX ridden , expensive sets , item song ridden and the Hero worship template ..And now in #dhurandhar with the film being worshipped instead of the star, they would be getting crucified in their own self created dungeon of masala films .. But no matter how much they wish the dog won’t go away .. it will be here to bite whenever their next film releases.”

“More than anything else @AdityaDharFilms is forcing the industry people to look at their own films in the mirror , in comparison to the beautiful looking,” he concluded, by praising Aditya Dhar for his work. Earlier, in another appreciation tweet for Dhurandhar, Ram Gopal Varma had mentioned that Dhurandhar “completely and single handedly” changed the future of Indian cinema. Aditya had even responded to his praise, sharing admiration for the director’s previous films.

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