Hindi
Osian’s Film Festival from 24 to 30 October
NEW DELHI: About 100 feature and short films from across 25 countries including India will be screened in the 11th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. The festival will be held in Delhi from 24 to 30 October.
As in previous years, the festival is being organised by Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art in association with the government of the NCT of Delhi.
The opening film of the festival will be a France-Romanian co-production, Hooked, directed by Adrian Sitaru.
For the first time, India will be in the spotlight at the festival. Said Osian‘s chairman Neville Tuli, “With Osian’s entering the world of learning and education with Osian’s Learning Experience (OLE), the programming lineup of the festival has altered profoundly providing a radical platform for OLE. The role of learning and education will henceforth be taken up in an explicit manner.”
Tuli denied that the festival had been scaled down but said priorities had been re-defined.
The NewStream Cinema section with six prominent Hindi films takes this concept further and will showcase and explore exhaustively films that have dared to redefine mainstream cinema.
These films are Amir, Dev D, Kaminey, Love Aaj Kal, Luck by Chance and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!.
In a new initiative, there is the InDialogue section of 34 films from 28 countries that show a dialogue of sensibilities amongst the makers of a certain kind of cinema dedicated to the subtlest and most intelligent employment of the possibilities of the cinematic, all over the world.
The Indian features in the InCompetition section are 033, Khargosh and Man’s Woman and other stories.
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.
