Mumbai: Praising the massive box-office success of Ranveer Singh’s spy-thriller Dhurandhar, actor Emraan Hashmi criticised the prevalent “crap mentality” in the industry, where people often prefer to ‘run down films’ rather than celebrate them.
“Whenever a film does a certain amount of business, firstly, you’re happy. [However,] there is a crap mentality in our industry. People like [to] run-down films. But I’m of the opinion that if something does well, you should celebrate that. Because that really… the more films do well, it gets for the industry, and the cash flow comes in. It helps everyone. So, that crap mentality shouldn’t be there,” the actor was quoted as saying by India Today.
Hashmi also lauded ‘Dhurandhar’ for its bold marketing and scale, calling it “audacious” despite its nearly four-hour runtime and two-part structure, even though he admitted he hasn’t watched it yet. “But it’s great for the makers. I think it’s a great film. The marketing of the film, the way it’s… I’ve not seen the film, but it’s audacious when you have two parts like that. And a film that is almost three and a half hours, but it’s doing that kind of business. I was telling someone right now that the cinema experience would be four hours, but people are going and seeing it at 12 o’clock shows, even early in the morning. And that’s the power of cinema and word of mouth. It’s caught on like wildfire.”
The film, directed by Aditya Dhar, has shattered records as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time in a single language by collecting more than Rs 1000 crore worldwide, continuing to draw crowds weeks after its release.
The film stars Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, and R Madhavan in key roles.
A sequel of the film is slated to release in March, this year.
Meanwhile, on work front, Emraan will be seen next in Neeraj Pandey’s Netflix crime drama ‘Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web’ The show, which also stars Anurag Sinha, Nannyish Sandhu, and Amruta Khanvilkar, among others, will begin streaming from January 14.
