{"id":268202,"date":"2026-01-05T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/268202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:29:08","slug":"vivek-agnihotri-is-mind-blown-after-watching-dhurandhar-proud-of-gods-own-child-aditya-dhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/268202\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Agnihotri is mind-blown after watching Dhurandhar, proud of \u2018God&#8217;s own child\u2019 Aditya Dhar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Filmmaker <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/vivek-agnihotri\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Vivek Agnihotri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vivek Agnihotri<\/a> took to his X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday to share his review of Aditya Dhar\u2019s <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/ranveer-singh\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Ranveer Singh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ranveer Singh<\/a>-starrer Dhurandhar. Stating that he is mind-blown after watching the film and proud of Aditya for making it, Vivek listed out everything he liked about the \u20b91200 crore grosser.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vivek_Agnihotri_Dhurandhar_review_1767591892999_1767591902982.jpg\" alt=\"Vivek Agnihotri was all praise for Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar in his review. \" title=\"Vivek Agnihotri was all praise for Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar in his review. \"\/>   Vivek Agnihotri was all praise for Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar in his review.    <strong>Vivek Agnihotri\u2019s review of Dhurandhar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vivek stated that the first thing he did upon returning to India after two months was watch <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/ranveer-singh-dhurandhar-becomes-5th-highest-grossing-indian-film-beats-shah-rukh-khan-jawan-yash-kgf-2-salman-khan-hits-101767585541855.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Dhurandhar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dhurandhar<\/a>. \u201cJust landed back in India after two months and the first thing we did was watch @AdityaDharFilms Dhurandhar. Mind blown and proud are the only words that come to my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAnyone who knows what goes into making a film would understand what it takes to pull something like this off. The vision, the writing, the confidence, the belief in your own instinct\u2026 this kind of cinema doesn\u2019t happen by chance.\u201d He also praised the crew, particularly the production design, music and cinematography.<\/p>\n<p>   <strong>Praises performances and direction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging how <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/suriya-jyotika-praise-r-madhavan-ranveer-singh-akshaye-khanna-in-dhurandhar-call-it-masterpiece-101767438392970.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Akshaye Khanna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Akshaye Khanna <\/a>garnered all the attention, Vivek wrote, \u201cPerformances\u2026 yes, some will obviously be more talked about. But the real victory of Dhurandhar is that even the smallest, most insignificant characters have delivered top-notch performances. Every face feels cast, directed, and placed with intention. Most importantly, every department is in rare sync, working as one organism. That kind of cohesion doesn\u2019t happen by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then praised <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/from-karan-johar-aditya-dhar-to-sandeep-reddy-vanga-and-ss-rajamouli-what-are-indias-best-filmmakers-making-next-101767525610277.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Aditya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aditya<\/a> and wrote, \u201cThat\u2019s when you know it\u2019s purely a writer\/director\u2019s film. @adityadharfilms, I\u2019ve always admired your work, especially your sense of scale and design, but this is you operating on another level. I watched the film with genuine pride\u2026 proud of you, proud of the craft, proud of Indian cinema.\u201d Vivek rounded off his review with, \u201cYou are blessed. Truly. God\u2019s own child. More power to you. Keep going. Keep raising the bar. When the younger generation does work like this, Indian cinema moves forward. Simple. Bravo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhurandhar, which also stars Sara Arjun, Arjun Rampal, Rakesh Bedi and Sanjay Dutt, has become the first Bollywood film to cross the \u20b9800 crore milestone at the Indian box office. The film has crossed the \u20b91200 crore mark <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/dhurandhar-worldwide-box-office-collection-day-31-ranveer-singh-film-soars-past-1200-crore-beats-kgf-2-lifetime-haul-101767578978809.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"worldwide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri took to his X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday to share his review of Aditya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[104089,18,117,19,17,327,3825,4712,137179],"class_list":{"0":"post-268202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aditya-dhar","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-ranveer-singh","15":"tag-vivek-agnihotri","16":"tag-vivek-agnihotri-on-dhurandhar"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115842027534882591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}