Aaditya

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over 2 years ago

Successfully converted 3 londe into movie buffs... Now they sneak out of college to watch a movie. MAQSAD 20% COMPLETE

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5 months ago

@Trovecc I need help with the warranty.

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7 months ago

@_mrchaturvedi @CinemasBroadway @_PVRCinemas i can confirm @_PVRCinemas priya imax, didn't show Varanasi's glimpse and the Odyssey prologue. even though the show was almost houseful and they were not on time crunch.

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Aditya Devulapally @sparky_pan

7 months ago

#Dhurandhar: The film of the year…you should fucking rush to catch in theatres, here’s why! 1. Most critics are pissed, all the more reason Let's address the saffron elephant in the room: #Dhurandhar is a pro-government film, yes. The critics calling #Dhurandhar propaganda aren't wrong. They're just boring. Here's what they're missing while polishing their moral credentials on their stories…this is the most pure Bollywood-esque non-South exciting cinema they made in years (I have my issues with Animal), and pretending it isn't won't make it go away Most woke critics and the left are mad because they no longer have exclusive access to elite filmmaking and right wing is going from jingoistic dumb cinema to sophisticated slick cinema. This pisses them off more than anything. The film genuflects before Modi-era policies with the devotion of an erudite, smart-speaking and artsy party spokesperson (they also do exist clearly). Critics are tearing it apart for exactly this reason. 2. The film has crazily good craft This is Aditya Dhar operating at full tilt, bits of Sandeep Reddy Vanga's visceral brutality, bits of Pushpa's underworld building, a little bit Tom Cruise nationalist porn and somehow, somehow, the alchemy works sexily. The film is a genre-blending fever dream…spy thriller bleeds into gangster saga bleeds into underdog resurrection story, all held together by action choreography so haptic you can taste the gunpowder, that blood, that bodies being cut…you feel everything. You taste and smell the dirty air of Pakistan (even though it’s shot in some other place…Kudos for this excellent craft) That confidence. That shameless, chest-out, I’ll-do-what-I-want confidence. Nothing in Bollywood has dared to be this fun and violent in years. Everyone else is busy being tasteful. Respectable. Woke-friendly. #Dhurandhar couldn’t give a fuck! The film's genius lies in its subversive world-building architecture. You expect Ranveer Singh's Hamza to infiltrate Pakistan's terror networks and dismantle them with clinical precision…standard secret agent playbook. Instead, Dhar gives you something far more morally queasy…Hamza indirectly enables 26/11. That guilt doesn't just haunt him, it rewires the entire film's DNA. Suddenly, this isn't a victory lap. It's a penance story And instead of bombing army installations or engaging in geopolitical chess, Hamza gets trapped in Pakistan's gangland, a grotesque, ugly underworld where fingers are severed like cigarettes and heads explode into visceral matter. The film takes exquisite, almost perverse patience in building this ecosystem…the mafia hierarchies, the territorial codes, the cool character names, the way violence is casually brutal. Dhar understands that great gangster films aren't about the killing…they're about the architecture that makes killing inevitable. Watch how the film braids patriotism with criminality in vérité style docu-fiction, how Hamza's mission becomes indistinguishable from survival, how nationalism curdles into something far stranger and more unsettling than flag-waving heroics. This felt to me like Goodfellas reimagined as covert ops cinema 3. Of course, #AkshayeKhanna, the man finally gets recognition Akshaye Khanna appears. That’s it man, that’s cinema! Thin. Coiled. Eyes like a lit match. One of those presences that makes the whole theatre go silent without meaning to. No theatrics. No punchlines. Just the calm of a man who has killed often enough to have opinions on technique. He doesn’t perform villainy. He breathes it. When his anthem drops, the seat under you vibrates. It’s ridiculous. It’s over the top. It’s perfect. 4. Ranveer too seems to found his charm again Ranveer Singh is a peculiar beast…an actor who oscillates wildly between brilliance and buffoonery depending entirely on the director. Give him a visionary, and he locks in. Give him a hack, and he becomes unbearable. Here, under Dhar's control, Ranveer is operating in that rare frequency where movie-star charisma marries actual craft. Hamza is layered in ways Bollywood rarely allows its heroes to be…guilty, calculating, desperate, magnetic, greedy. Every frame, Ranveer makes you root not because Hamza is righteous, but because he's trying. That's harder to pull off than it sounds. Ranveer reminded so much of his powerhouse performance in Gully Boy. 5. That sexy original music by Shashwat Sachdev Dhar's use of music is also so damn original and fetishistic. Pulpy electronic bangers. Remixes that would fail on a thought level, but somehow slap. Traditional instrumentation colliding with techno aggression. I won’t even talk much just go and listen to the songs…especially ‘Ez-Ez’ or Akshay Khanna’s Baloch banger. Every musical bit is instantly addictive. 6. Violence is lovely, beautiful, original and hits your pulse Absolutely, unexpected in a mainstream Bollywood film, is that operatic fun violence There's a sequence where Ranveer’s Hamza cuts off fingers of a traitor in his target’s house….the double betrayal angle is chummah, but there’s more….As Hamza commits the act, he is busy threatening another character, while a finger slowly slides along to touch his foot….Camera gives space for that delicious madness. It's revolting. It's beautiful. It shouldn't work. It fucking works. And guess what, this is mainstream cinema man. Tarantino would love the fuck out of this film! #Dhurandhar’s violence isn't sanitised. It's ugly, intimate, thrilling. Heads don't just explode…you see the gutter matter. This isn't Marvel quippiness. The film’s casual brutality reminded me why I love those gangster films so much. Every action sequence is a sensory delight and I mean that as the highest compliment. This is haptic cinema: visceral, textured, felt. At least 90% of this film looks and moves like it was shot in actual space with actual bodies, and in an era of green-screen approximations, that tactility is revolutionary. 7. Finally, the point all of them are missing Yes, Dhurandhar is a love letter to Modi-era decision-making. Yes, it offers narrative justifications for controversial policies. And yes, I didn’t enjoy that aspect of the film. But When American cinema throws jingoism, America-Russia angle in thrillers, OTT shows, we nod along because the craft dazzles us. We sat through 3 hours of Top Gun: Maverick and called it 'a return to pure cinema.' We gave Christopher Nolan a pass for making the atomic bomb look like a lonely genius's passion project and said 'at least it's not CGI.' But suddenly, when Bollywood does nationalist cinema with actual craft, we remember we have principles? Fuck you. We compartmentalise. We say, "Well, the politics are questionable, but the filmmaking..." And suddenly, we're sophisticated enough to separate art from ideology. Why can't we extend the same courtesy to our own filmmakers? I'm not asking you to agree with Dhar's politics. I'm asking you to recognise that #Dhurandhar is doing something Bollywood has forgotten how to do…build worlds, develop characters with competing motivations, let plots unfold rather than explode into isolated mass moments. This is classical genre filmmaking with modern muscularity The question isn't whether the film is propaganda. It clearly is. The question is whether you can hold two truths simultaneously: that its ideology is suspect and that its craft is undeniable (which is where critics fell right into Sandeep Vanga’s trap with Animal and Kabir Singh) After watching…dedicating 3 and a half hours of my finite existence to this gloriously excessive beast….I’m convinced that the woke critics bashing #Dhurandhar have forgotten what it feels like to be genuinely, viscerally excited in a theatre. Dhar remembers something Bollywood forgot. Plot can be pleasure. Momentum can be pleasure. Watching a story twist and coil and bite its own tail can be pleasure. I didn’t care that the politics were screaming. I didn’t care that the film was trying to sell me a worldview. I cared that I was alive inside the experience. That my pulse had synced to the edit. That I hadn’t felt this kind of cinematic voltage in years. And maybe that’s the problem with all of us who watch too much, think too much. We want cinema to be good in the correct ways. #Dhurandhar is good in the wrong ways. The fun ways. This is cinema….unapologetic, excessive, alive. And after years of Bollywood sleepwalking through sanitised mediocrity or South cinema dependance, I'll take problematic brilliance over safe blandness any day of the week. #Dhurandhar doesn't just entertain. It electrifies. And if that makes me complicit in propaganda, so be it. I'm booking my second ticket, it’s that freaking good bro! What #Dhurandhar proves is that ideological cinema doesn't have to be artistically incompetent. The left got lazy thinking it had a monopoly on sophistication. Now the right has learned the grammar, got the vision, and has the technicians. The game changed in the last few years in the country.

sparky_pan's tweet photo. #Dhurandhar: The film of the year…you should fucking rush to catch in theatres, here’s why!

1. Most critics are pissed, all the more reason
Let's address the saffron elephant in the room: #Dhurandhar is a pro-government film, yes.

The critics calling #Dhurandhar propaganda aren't wrong. They're just boring. Here's what they're missing while polishing their moral credentials on their stories…this is the most pure Bollywood-esque non-South exciting cinema they made in years (I have my issues with Animal), and pretending it isn't won't make it go away

Most woke critics and the left are mad because they no longer have exclusive access to elite filmmaking and right wing is going from jingoistic dumb cinema to sophisticated slick cinema. This pisses them off more than anything.

The film genuflects before Modi-era policies with the devotion of an erudite, smart-speaking and artsy party spokesperson (they also do exist clearly). Critics are tearing it apart for exactly this reason.

2. The film has crazily good craft
This is Aditya Dhar operating at full tilt, bits of Sandeep Reddy Vanga's visceral brutality, bits of Pushpa's underworld building, a little bit Tom Cruise nationalist porn and somehow, somehow, the alchemy works sexily. The film is a genre-blending fever dream…spy thriller bleeds into gangster saga bleeds into underdog resurrection story, all held together by action choreography so haptic you can taste the gunpowder, that blood, that bodies being cut…you feel everything. You taste and smell the dirty air of Pakistan (even though it’s shot in some other place…Kudos for this excellent craft)

That confidence. That shameless, chest-out, I’ll-do-what-I-want confidence. Nothing in Bollywood has dared to be this fun and violent in years. Everyone else is busy being tasteful. Respectable. Woke-friendly. #Dhurandhar couldn’t give a fuck!

The film's genius lies in its subversive world-building architecture. You expect Ranveer Singh's Hamza to infiltrate Pakistan's terror networks and dismantle them with clinical precision…standard secret agent playbook. Instead, Dhar gives you something far more morally queasy…Hamza indirectly enables 26/11. That guilt doesn't just haunt him, it rewires the entire film's DNA.

Suddenly, this isn't a victory lap. It's a penance story

And instead of bombing army installations or engaging in geopolitical chess, Hamza gets trapped in Pakistan's gangland, a grotesque, ugly underworld where fingers are severed like cigarettes and heads explode into visceral matter. The film takes exquisite, almost perverse patience in building this ecosystem…the mafia hierarchies, the territorial codes, the cool character names, the way violence is casually brutal. Dhar understands that great gangster films aren't about the killing…they're about the architecture that makes killing inevitable.

Watch how the film braids patriotism with criminality in vérité style docu-fiction, how Hamza's mission becomes indistinguishable from survival, how nationalism curdles into something far stranger and more unsettling than flag-waving heroics. This felt to me like Goodfellas reimagined as covert ops cinema

3. Of course, #AkshayeKhanna, the man finally gets recognition
Akshaye Khanna appears.
That’s it man, that’s cinema!
Thin. Coiled. Eyes like a lit match.
One of those presences that makes the whole theatre go silent without meaning to. No theatrics. No punchlines. Just the calm of a man who has killed often enough to have opinions on technique. He doesn’t perform villainy. He breathes it. When his anthem drops, the seat under you vibrates. It’s ridiculous. It’s over the top. It’s perfect.

4. Ranveer too seems to found his charm again
Ranveer Singh is a peculiar beast…an actor who oscillates wildly between brilliance and buffoonery depending entirely on the director. Give him a visionary, and he locks in. Give him a hack, and he becomes unbearable. Here, under Dhar's control, Ranveer is operating in that rare frequency where movie-star charisma marries actual craft.

Hamza is layered in ways Bollywood rarely allows its heroes to be…guilty, calculating, desperate, magnetic, greedy. Every frame, Ranveer makes you root not because Hamza is righteous, but because he's trying. That's harder to pull off than it sounds. Ranveer reminded so much of his powerhouse performance in Gully Boy.

5. That sexy original music by Shashwat Sachdev
Dhar's use of music is also so damn original and fetishistic. Pulpy electronic bangers. Remixes that would fail on a thought level, but somehow slap. Traditional instrumentation colliding with techno aggression.

I won’t even talk much just go and listen to the songs…especially ‘Ez-Ez’ or Akshay Khanna’s Baloch banger. Every musical bit is instantly addictive.

6. Violence is lovely, beautiful, original and hits your pulse
Absolutely, unexpected in a mainstream Bollywood film, is that operatic fun violence

There's a sequence where Ranveer’s Hamza cuts off fingers of a traitor in his target’s house….the double betrayal angle is chummah, but there’s more….As Hamza commits the act, he is busy threatening another character, while a finger slowly slides along to touch his foot….Camera gives space for that delicious madness. It's revolting. It's beautiful. It shouldn't work. It fucking works. And guess what, this is mainstream cinema man. Tarantino would love the fuck out of this film!

#Dhurandhar’s violence isn't sanitised. It's ugly, intimate, thrilling. Heads don't just explode…you see the gutter matter. This isn't Marvel quippiness. The film’s casual brutality reminded me why I love those gangster films so much.

Every action sequence is a sensory delight and I mean that as the highest compliment. This is haptic cinema: visceral, textured, felt. At least 90% of this film looks and moves like it was shot in actual space with actual bodies, and in an era of green-screen approximations, that tactility is revolutionary.

7. Finally, the point all of them are missing
Yes, Dhurandhar is a love letter to Modi-era decision-making. Yes, it offers narrative justifications for controversial policies. And yes, I didn’t enjoy that aspect of the film.

But When American cinema throws jingoism, America-Russia angle in thrillers, OTT shows, we nod along because the craft dazzles us. We sat through 3 hours of Top Gun: Maverick and called it 'a return to pure cinema.' We gave Christopher Nolan a pass for making the atomic bomb look like a lonely genius's passion project and said 'at least it's not CGI.' But suddenly, when Bollywood does nationalist cinema with actual craft, we remember we have principles? Fuck you.

We compartmentalise. We say, "Well, the politics are questionable, but the filmmaking..." And suddenly, we're sophisticated enough to separate art from ideology.
Why can't we extend the same courtesy to our own filmmakers?

I'm not asking you to agree with Dhar's politics. I'm asking you to recognise that #Dhurandhar is doing something Bollywood has forgotten how to do…build worlds, develop characters with competing motivations, let plots unfold rather than explode into isolated mass moments. This is classical genre filmmaking with modern muscularity

The question isn't whether the film is propaganda. It clearly is. The question is whether you can hold two truths simultaneously: that its ideology is suspect and that its craft is undeniable (which is where critics fell right into Sandeep Vanga’s trap with Animal and Kabir Singh)

After watching…dedicating 3 and a half hours of my finite existence to this gloriously excessive beast….I’m convinced that the woke critics bashing #Dhurandhar have forgotten what it feels like to be genuinely, viscerally excited in a theatre.

Dhar remembers something Bollywood forgot. Plot can be pleasure. Momentum can be pleasure. Watching a story twist and coil and bite its own tail can be pleasure.

I didn’t care that the politics were screaming. I didn’t care that the film was trying to sell me a worldview. I cared that I was alive inside the experience. That my pulse had synced to the edit. That I hadn’t felt this kind of cinematic voltage in years.

And maybe that’s the problem with all of us who watch too much, think too much. We want cinema to be good in the correct ways. #Dhurandhar is good in the wrong ways. The fun ways.

This is cinema….unapologetic, excessive, alive. And after years of Bollywood sleepwalking through sanitised mediocrity or South cinema dependance, I'll take problematic brilliance over safe blandness any day of the week.
#Dhurandhar doesn't just entertain. It electrifies. And if that makes me complicit in propaganda, so be it.
I'm booking my second ticket, it’s that freaking good bro!

What #Dhurandhar proves is that ideological cinema doesn't have to be artistically incompetent. The left got lazy thinking it had a monopoly on sophistication. Now the right has learned the grammar, got the vision, and has the technicians. The game changed in the last few years in the country.

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Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They have their five-year plans, and so have I.

Aaditya @aadityawith2a

11 months ago

People who use their phones with cases, try using it naked for once.

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11 months ago

Man, I love watching horror films in theatres! Half the audience screamed at a jumpscare, then burst out laughing like maniacs.

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about 1 year ago

Arso baad mila dhokha aur hui Twitter pe wapsi, Arso baad samjh me aya.. agar akela hi rehta to na hoti kisi se umeed, na kisi se narazgi.

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over 1 year ago

@DenzD @ravi_vazirani @WarnerBrosIndia @_PVRCinemas @IndiaCinepolis @CinemasBroadway Thanks, Can we please get tenet? please. as I can remember it was never re-released In India ever. A lot of us missed watching it in theaters due to covid.

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over 1 year ago

@vikpat can we get TENET? PLEASE I WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN

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over 1 year ago

Pvr priya Imax @kdcloudy #InterstellarRerelease

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over 1 year ago

@PicturesFoIder western audience, WATCH #BABYJOHN if you can. It is an Indian film with a spectacular bgm. I think you'll love it

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over 1 year ago

@dealztrendz yes, #hdfcergoscam Hdfc just cancelled my whole policy or the india gets moving benefit. Also the reason for cancellation is Unnatural practices?!! which they didn't even bother to explain. I did all my steps with utmost sincerity and these scamsters did their scam!!

Aaditya @aadityawith2a

over 1 year ago

@amitbhawani #hdfcergoscam Hdfc just cancelled my whole policy or the india gets moving benefit. Also the reason for cancellation is Unnatural practices?!! which they didn't even bother to explain. I did all my steps with utmost sincerity and these scamsters did their scam!!