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Aditya Dhar spent Rs 10 crore extra on Dhurandhar detailing, says Madhavan
Aditya Dhar spent Rs 10 crore extra on Dhurandhar detailing, says Madhavan
R Madhavan says filmmaker Aditya Dhar spent an additional Rs 10 crore on the intricate “peak detailing” in the eight-hour Dhurandhar project. Madhavan said the film’s success changed his view of whether…
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R Madhavan says filmmaker Aditya Dhar spent an additional Rs 10 crore on the intricate “peak detailing” in the eight-hour Dhurandhar project. Madhavan said the film’s success changed his view of whether audiences notice such fine details. The phrase later became a social media meme, which Dhar acknowledged in a birthday post on X.
The Hindustan Times reports that Dhurandhar earned around Rs 1,300 crore worldwide and Dhurandhar: The Revenge crossed Rs 1,800 crore. The Times of India describes the franchise’s total earnings as over Rs 3,000 crore. The two reports differ slightly in their account of the overall box-office figure.
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The lazy version is that memes alone made Dhurandhar a hit, while the opposite exaggeration credits every rupee of its success to hidden detail. Madhavan’s account supports a narrower point: the filmmakers invested heavily, and audiences responded to the finished work. His Rs 10 crore figure is a reported claim, not an independently audited expense. The useful test is whether the franchise’s final audited collections and production accounts support both the scale of the investment and the success story.
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, hindustantimes.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
