Ram Gopal Varma analyses FX Driven Films and Dhurandhar. The sensation Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar created is still not dying down and all eyes are on Dhurandhar 2 which is releasing on 19 March 2026.
In the meantime, Ram Gopal Varma analysed the FX driven films and Dhurandhar. He says “You see, basically, a lot of different films will come and anything can do well, but it is doubtful that the special-effects driven action film which Telugu cinema is churning out for the past some years now will find a market.”
He pointed out “Ranveer Singh has no entry scene. In fact, he is almost molested by a mob in his entry scene. Dhurandhar technically is a template film. There’s a hero, there’s a heroine, there’s a villain, there’s a lofty cause for the hero. Right. But in the way it’s being treated,it is the exact opposite of what we’ve been feeding upon all these years. I’m talking about all action films —they are the same, no? Hero, heroism, hero elevation. Mostly vendetta.”
RGV talking about Kalki 2898AD, RRR and Baahubali said “All those films which we’ve been subjected to the last five, six years were the benchmark. Now suddenly, this Dhurandhar comes — the only film I saw where the hero doesn’t have an elevation shot. So-called slow motion, background score and all. All the other characters have. In fact, he stayed in the background most of the movie. The story is not being made to bend backwards and forwards to please, to pander to any hero’s whims.”
He says “Dhurandhar doing these kind of numbers, and becoming a bigger hit than all of them indicates a sea-change in audience’s taste,” and goes on to compare Hollywood and Bollywood saying “A Leonardo DiCaprio kind of a star is doing a film like Body of Lies. If you remember that shot when he’s hit on his fingers, he shows genuine pain. So heroes doing gravity-defining turns and all that, where the hero you don’t even think is a human being, is what we’ve been fed upon in the last few years. In the opening sequence, Ranveer gets battered by some. That kind of treatment — with a vulnerable hero —being accepted in such large numbers is what we’re seeing at the box office.”
He also said Telugu blockbusters became dated. He shares “The biting fight in Pushpa 2, flying around and biting everyone, which is definitely extremely enjoyable to all the audience. But I don’t know how that will work after this. This is a truly miraculous time transition because in just a year or two, people’s tastes have changed completely because of Dhurandhar. Which is why I use that word—it’s a quantum leap in cinema. “Can you think of a film which is the gritty reality of Dhurandhar-kind of action, where you see the pain, the very injuries, what can be sustained in that kind of a thing? It is not fantasy. It’s real. Every character is vulnerable. You see them as human and not larger than life like we have become used to recently.”
He says "In Hollywood, all the stars can act. A Leonardo DiCaprio kind of a star is doing a film like Body of Lies. If you remember that shot when he’s hit on his fingers, he shows genuine pain. heroes doing gravity-defining Stunts, where the hero you don’t even think is a human, is what we’ve been fed upon in the last few years. In the opening sequence in Dhurandhar, Ranveer gets battered. That kind of treatment with a vulnerable hero IS being accepted in large numbers.”