‘Paralysed by brilliance’: Ram Gopal Varma slams Bollywood’s ‘loud silence’ over Dhurandhar 2’s box office roar

Now that @AdityaDharFilms has EXPLODED a ATOMIC BOMB right under the film industry, what is shocking is the loud silence from the rest of the film industry .

I don’t know whether this is because the #Dhurandhar2 ‘s devastating explosion has hurled everyone else in the film…

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 29, 2026

Ram Gopal Varma went on to call it “extremely unwise” to ignore what Dhurandhar 2 had achieved, and urged his fellow filmmakers to treat the film as a crash course in cinema. His closing line drew a firm line in the sand, warning that those who failed to take the film seriously risked being “buried forever in the graveyard of pre-March 19th, 2026 cinema.”

The tweet lands at a moment when the numbers backing his argument are hard to dispute. The film has crossed the Rs 1,200 crore gross mark in India within 11 days of release, set a global first-week record for a Hindi film, and surpassed the lifetime domestic collections of films like Jawan, Pathaan, KGF: Chapter 2, and RRR, according to Sacnilk.

Whether or not the industry responds publicly, Ram Gopal Varma’s post captures a sentiment that trade observers have been noting for days: that Dhurandhar 2 has shifted the benchmark for what a Hindi film can do at the box office, and that the conversation around it is only growing louder.

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