Hindi
Amitabh Bachchan presented with Asian Film Culture award
MUMBAI: The Asian Film Foundation felicitated Amitabh Bachchan with the the Asian Film Culture Award on 7 December.
Producer-director Ramesh Sippy was the chief guest of the evening. Other dignitaries present on the occasion were Asian Film Foundation chairman Kiran Shantaram, Festival director Sudhir Nandgoankar and Abhishek Bachchan.
The Asian Film Festival aims to bridge the gap between the Asian Film fraternities and promote Asian cinema. This award is given each year to a master of Asian Cinema, alternatively to an Indian and a non-Indian stalwart.
Amitabh Bachchan was voted the star of the millennium in a BBC news poll, ahead of such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Sir Lawerence Olivier and Marlon Brando.
With a success record so consistent, over a period of time, Bachchan has come to symbolize the Indian film industry to viewers in the country abroad.
Bachchan has won many major awards including 3 National Film Awards and 12 Filmfare Awards. He holds the record for most number of best actor nominations at Filmfare Awards.
Previous recipients of the Asian Film Culture Award have been personalities like
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Park Kwang – su, Tapan Sinha, Majid Majidi, Kanneto Shindo, Mrinal Sen and Lester Junes Peries.
Hindi
Dhurandhar the revenge storms past Rs 1,000 crore in a week, rewrites box office records
Aditya Dhar’s spy thriller sets fastest run to Rs 1,000 crore with record-breaking weekday hold
MUMBAI: The box office has a new juggernaut—and it is moving at breakneck speed. Dhurandhar the revenge has smashed past the Rs 1,000 crore mark worldwide in just a week, clocking a staggering Rs 1,088 crore and resetting the rules of the blockbuster game.
Backed by Jio Studios and B62 Studios, and directed by Aditya Dhar, the spy action sequel opened to the biggest weekend ever for an Indian film globally—and then refused to slow down. Unlike typical tentpole releases that taper off after Sunday, this one powered through the weekdays with rare muscle, posting Rs 64 crore on Monday, Rs 58 crore on Tuesday, Rs 49 crore on Wednesday and Rs 53 crore on Thursday.
The numbers stack up to a formidable first-week haul. India collections stand at Rs 690 crore nett and Rs 814 crore gross, while overseas markets have chipped in Rs 274 crore, taking the worldwide total to Rs 1,088 crore in just eight days.
The film’s opening weekend alone delivered Rs 466 crore, laying the foundation for what is now being billed as the fastest climb to the Rs 1,000 crore club in Indian cinema. Every single day of its first week has set fresh benchmarks, from the highest opening weekend to the strongest weekday hold—metrics that typically separate hits from phenomena.
A sequel to the earlier hit Dhurandhar, the film has not just built on its predecessor’s momentum but obliterated previous records, emerging as the biggest global blockbuster run by an Indian film to date.
At this pace, the film is not merely riding a wave—it is creating one.
