Filmmaker Aditya Dhar’s recently released, Dhurandhar: The Revenge, has been going strong at the box office. The Ranveer Singh-starrer has entered the 1000 crore club on its third Sunday, becoming the fastest Indian film to achieve the feat following Pushpa 2 (2024). As the film continues its dominant run, a section of viewers has tagged it as propaganda. Actor and politician Ravi Kishan recently broke his silence on the same.
Ravi Kishan about Dhurandhar 2
Actor and Parliamentarian Ravi Kishan came in full support of Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar, saying that calling it a propaganda film is unfortunate. He urged the audience to support the film since it has “revived the industry and brought out facts in cinematic brilliance”.
Ravi Kishan said, “Calling it a propaganda film is very wrong! Actors from the South supported it openly; everyone should do that. A new trend has started of calling films propaganda – ek naya kabootar pakad liye hain log!”
The actor, who was recently seen in Maamla Legal Hai season 2, even compared the franchise to the 1975 blockbuster Sholay. “The writer picks topics from real news and incidents, and the team cinematically presents them on the screen. One should be happy that people have started going to the theatre. Bahut haalat kharab thi industry ki, Bhojpuri industry has almost shut down! This has come as a blessing for the industry, and lakhs of people earn their livelihood through cinema,” he noted.
Ravi further added, “It’s important that cinema presents on screen what has and is happening in society. In fact, we need to correct our history as well by way of research – those pages that were torn away from our history! That truth needs to be brought in front of people.”
Ravi Kishan on being a part of Dhurandhar 2
When asked if he felt like starring in the film, he said, “I know someone somewhere must be writing a Dhurandhar for me. What’s in fate will come to me; this was not in my account. Similarly, I am not in my favourite Gangs of Wasseypur, so I don’t have any FOMO of that! But, I will surely like to work with Aditya (Dhar) or Mr (Sanjay Leela) Bhansali, like now I got to work with Karan Johar in Naagzilla. So, no regrets,” adding that had he been in the film, he would have loved to do any role, but Ranveer Singh’s Hazma is his pick!
The actor stated that the film became successful because of “amazing BGM (background music), super editing, bang-on energy by actors and the director took great shots and spent a whopping Rs 260 crores.”
On the work front, he will be seen in films like Mirzapur, Nagzilla, Bhai Behen, Peddi with Ram Charan and the TDS series next.
