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IFC’s ‘Road, Movie’ to premiere at Toronto fest
MUMBAI: Dev Benegal‘s Road Movie will be premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year. The event will begin on 10 September and will run for over ten days.
The film, presented by the Indian Film Company (IFC) will be screened as a special presentation at the Winter Garden Theatre on 18 September. The special presentation screenings showcase high-profile films featuring major stars and directors from around the world.
Said Indian Film Company CEO Sandeep Bhargava, “We are extremely delighted that TIFF has chosen our film to premiere at the festival. The selection of our film is an endorsement of our vision to back high-quality international cinema.”
Produced by Susan B Landau and Ross Katz, Road Movie‘s screenplay has been penned by Benegal and talks about Vishnu, a restless young man, who rejects his father‘s faltering hair oil business and hits the road with a moving cinema (bioscope).
The film stars Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Satish Kaushik in lead roles and is slated to hit the theatres next year.
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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.
