Jyoti Sardar

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[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Don’t buy in to the numbers game. That’s just marketing. Did the art actually move you? Did it make you feel something? That’s all that matters.

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

@_PVRCinemas Krish-I never said I objected to your policy, as much as it makes no sense. Did you even read the thread and what was ultimately being asked of you, vis-a-vis your baggage deposit policy, wherein you give NO guarantees for the safekeeping of customers’ items?? This needs fixing.

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Had an interesting (read: annoying) experience at @_PVRCinemas today. I had a movie ticket booked (Michael is amazing btw!) and planned to spend the day at the mall after, grab lunch, work at a café for a bit etc. But PVR wouldn’t let me take my iPad inside.. 1/8

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Happy to deposit items if you actually take responsibility for their safety, @_PVRCinemas.
People come to the movies to de-stress. Please make the experience less stressful, not more.
Do better. Thank you. 8/8

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Tbh, what annoyed me most was that nobody enforcing these rules could even explain why the policy exists. These rules just continue forever because nobody questions them. Meanwhile customers are inconvenienced, stressed and expected to just accept it. 7/8

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

@Tushar15 Funny I got a similar message today from one of my channel viewers! It cracked me up, the suggestion that "Modi's popularity is going down".. definitely part of a new tool-kit.

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

My reel - discussing a scene in #DhurandharTheRevenge wherein @AdityaDharFilms beautifully showcased similarities in the teachings of the Gita with teachings of Sikh Gurus. Is that content anti any Indian law?! I believe not.
(4/n)

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Email gets an automated response asking me to fill a form. Filled the form, submitted all info & context again. Response? Attached screenshot.

Sending me right back to Instagram support who had NO INFORMATION or FACTS to share with me. Nice zero accountability loop. (3/n)

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

@Akbaral71463714 @AdityaDharFilms Kisi aur ko dumb bulane se pehle singular-plural wali class attend kar lete.

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Peak Indian cinema. Thank you @AdityaDharFilms and crew.

My thoughts on #Dhurandhar -

https://t.co/iKaJHtStf2

[Sandeep Reddy Vanga @imvangasandeep]

Writers & actors built careers on propaganda, and the industry stayed quiet like cats. Now the same clan mock Dhurandhar. You don’t get to call yourself liberal if your first instinct is to Mock.
Don’t know when truth started getting labeled as propaganda...... strange times.
COMING TO THE POINT.....
I want to tell @AdityaDharFilms & @RanveerOfficial yeh kaala drishti aise nahi jaayega... Muthi bhar ke laal mirch se kaam nahi chalega.... poora khet jalana padega 🔥
Watched #Dhurandhar2‌TheRevenge last night.... Outstanding film 🙏

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

No spoilers but will say that @AdityaDharFilms gave us the closure we needed. The cinema we needed. Thank you.
And thank you to every unknown soldier of the soil. We are indebted.
Bharat Mata ki Jai.

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

Spent a v long time in Dubai,n even after I left,always praised it for all it gives you- safety, comfort, peace.
“Dubai spoils you”, I’ve often said. Makes it harder to adjust anywhere else, they set the bar so high. I applaud the leadership even more today. Focused and firm👏🏻🇦🇪

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

From which country are you standing with the UAE today?

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

@amjadt25 From India. 🤍

[Jyoti Sardar @jyoticsardar]

BRILLIANTLY PUT. I expect ignorant and banal opinions around our history from @bbcasiannetwork and Haroon, but ARR was disappointing as never before.
Plus his PR machinery has started double spinning already to contain damage.

[Zeba Zoariah @ZZoariah]

What A. R. Rahman said about Chhaava reveals more about India’s cultural politics than about the film itself.

Rahman’s core claim isn’t that he’s banned or boycotted. It’s subtler: Bollywood’s power structure has changed, creativity has taken a backseat, and Chhaava felt “divisive” because it “cashed in on tensions” even while honouring bravery.

Here’s the problem.

Chhaava isn’t built on invention or provocation. Sambhaji vs Aurangzeb is not a contemporary political construct. It appears in Maratha bakhars, Persian court chronicles like the Maasir-i-Alamgiri, and later colonial historiography. This conflict was recorded by both sides of history. It predates modern India, electoral politics, and today’s culture wars.

Labeling such history “divisive” is not a neutral judgment it’s a political framing. It implies that remembering resistance is less legitimate than remembering devotion; that naming conquest is more dangerous than romanticising harmony.

Notice the asymmetry:
Indian history is welcomed when it is abstract, symbolic, or safely spiritual.
It becomes “problematic” only when it names power, violence, and Hindu resistance.

This reflex didn’t emerge organically. It was shaped post Independence by elite cultural gatekeeping that treated civilisational memory as combustible and silence as virtue. The result? Generations trained to believe that historical clarity equals communal trouble.

So when a film refuses to soften Sambhaji into metaphor or Aurangzeb into abstraction, the alarm goes off: divisive, polarising, dangerous.

That discomfort isn’t about religion.
It’s about memory …. unsanitised, unashamed memory.

A society that cannot distinguish between hatred and historical recall will keep mistaking truth for tension and forgetting for peace.

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

From COPPOLA to ADITYA DHAR

A directors growth not only from what he learnt from previous directors who came before him , but also from directors who came after him ..In that context here are my new learnings from Aditya Dhar’s DURANDHAR

From Coppola I learnt intense closeted drama , which I tried to emulate in Satya, Company, Sarkar etc. But now Dhurandhar shows that approach can work far more effectively with scale.

Writing scenes assuming the audience will feel even before they understand is a new one

I was one of the first mainstream Indian directors to refuse elevation of heroes . Bhiku Mhatre was terrific inspite of not being celebrated and Amitabh Bachchan worked in Sarkar without a single slow motion shot
But Dhurandhar invents a never before seen or experienced new kind of elevation in creating flawed but consequence driven heroes.

Making a star disappear into the story is a new one

Another lesson is that violence should hurt the viewer ,not just entertain them and so to design action as an organic and emotional projection rather than loud illogical choreography is a new one , a must learn lesson ,especially for the pan india film makers

I never believed in the so called three act structure but Dhurandhar extends that belief to almost a breaking point that even uneven and fractured narratives can command attention.

The ingredients of Dhurandhar can push stories to be abrupt, unresolved, sometimes even unfair. Also It breaks away from the cliche of tying knots just for the sake of untying them.

My use of sound created dread without visual excess , but Dhurandhar showed that sound and music in a strange mating ritual can become the lead psychological forces even more powerful than dialogue and visual .

I once assumed it was intelligence , but later on my intention to deliberately keep on provoking replaced the honesty in me and In sharp contrast to that, Dhurandhar respects the audience without explaining anything

I was always anti trend and confronted it , but mostly for the sake of shock value , whereas Dhurandhar doesn’t chase validation because it announces a higher purpose.

I always believed that scale should be shown internally and not as a bloated display , but Dhurandhar proves that scale can coexist with restraint in order to create a symphony of previously unfelt emotions

My final learning is that i don’t need to grow by myself , but i need to catch up with what others have become

Hey @AdityaDharFilms ,thank you for becoming the new Ayn Rand of my life

“ Art is not what it is .. Art is what it could be“

—- AYN RAND