Hindi
‘Twosome’ picks up Hubert Bals award at Film Bazaar
MUMBAI: Siddharth Sinha‘s film Twosome was awarded with the Hubert Bals award for most promising feature film project at the close of the three-day networking and project meetings at India‘s Film Bazaar held from 24 to 26 November.
Written and to be directed by Sinha, Twosome is a story of two women – one a single working mother fighting to keep her apartment, and the other a young woman who falls in love with a pimp.
The project has been produced by Paris-based production house, Trompe Le Monde.
Sinha was one of the 10 Indian filmmakers who had projects selected for the main section of Film Bazaar, an event organised by India‘s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
His project, along with four others like Onir‘s I Am, Ben Rekhi‘s Keep Off The Grass and Sandeep Varma‘s Manjunath have been selected to take part in next year‘s Cinemart.
The NFDC will support the producers of all four projects to attend the Rotterdam film festival‘s projects market in January.
In addition to the financing side of Film Bazaar, six projects took part in Screenwriters‘ Lab, four were analysed in a Work-In-Progress Lab while five Indian and an equal number of European projects were part at the Media programme-backed initiative Primexchange.
All this activity, in addition to a series of presentations and seminars, resulted in a
Film Bazaar is held during the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which this year opened with Chinese director He Ping‘s Wheat on 23 November and goes on up to 3 December, with Pedro Almodovar‘s Broken Embraces being the closing film.
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.
