Ram Gopal Varma has not stopped praising Aditya Dhar‘s huge hit espionage spy thriller, ‘Dhurandhar’, starring Ranveer Singh since its launch on December 5 final yr. Now, he is exhibiting his help once more and that is earlier than the sequel ‘Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge’ clashes with Geethu Mohandas’ Kannada motion movie ‘Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups’, starring Yash from ‘KGF’. RGV named this field workplace battle ‘Dhuroxic’.
Ram Gopal Varma praises ‘Dhurandhar’
On Sunday, the filmmaker clarified in an X (previously Twitter) put up that ‘Dhuroxic’ pits two cinematic cultures towards one another, “not of regions, but of cinema”, dismissing any “North vs South” or “Bollywood vs Sandalwood (the Kannada film industry)” narrative. “The principal difference between the two is that #DHURANDHAR respects the audience’s intelligence and #TOXIC presumes their dumbness.”He contrasted Yash’s Kannada hit franchise ‘KGF’, which performed to “the dumbness in the masses,” with Dhurandhar’s attraction to their “intelligence,” propelling it to world success and knocking ‘KGF: Chapter 2’ (2022) off its perch because the fourth highest-grossing Indian movie worldwide.
‘Dhurandhar 2’ vs ‘Toxic’ truths
RGV listed “10 savage brutal truths” to match Dhurandhar 2 and Toxic. One was “mindless hero worship vs the audience themselves discovering heroes through their moral actions in the story.” He stated Toxic’s motion scenes “mocked physics and insulted every school kid who studied Newton,” however Dhurandhar’s fights really feel “so raw and real that one can actually feel the punches.” He added that Toxic’s music screams “claps and whistle now, you idiots” each 5 minutes, whereas Dhurandhar makes use of “dead silence that lets brilliant performances do the talking.” He additionally stated Rs 700 crore went to Toxic to make Yash seem like an invincible God, however simply Rs 130 crore for Dhurandhar to make each character “feel equally human.”
‘Dhurandhar’ ensemble solid
‘Dhurandhar’ stars Ranveer Singh however has a powerful group of actors like Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, R. Madhavan, Sara Arjun, and Rakesh Bedi, plus others. RGV saved ttacking Toxic. He stated Yash’s flying hair in slow-motion hero photographs appears to be like “straight out of a shampoo ad.” He added that huge “vulgar budgets” went to waste on “VFX fireworks, eyesore sets, and stars just to hide creative vacuum.”
Hope for Indian cinema
RGV concluded his put up, “A film that begs the audience to switch their brains off to enjoy it versus a film forcing you to think, feel, and question every frame,” stated Varma. He added, “Money being poured versus money being put to use.” He ended his X put up saying it is not his love for Dhurandhar director Aditya Dhar that made him write it. It’s his “hope for Indian cinema,” to see if “India is Dhurandhar or Toxic.”‘Dhurandhar – The Revenge’ and ‘Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups’ are set to lock horns on March 19, 2026.
