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Mumbai Film Festival from 29 October
MUMBAI: The 11th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) will be held from 29 October to 5 November.
Organised by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), MFF, a Reliance Big Entertainment initiative, has the distinction of being the only international film festival in India to be organised by an independent body of practicing film professionals.
Says filmmaker Shyam Benegal, “All the sections of the festival carry some of the best films made the world over. Whether it‘s the thematic or the director‘s point of view that makes every film so distinctive, our audience will be able to see and experience it for themselves.”
The festival is divided into five sections – international competition for the first feature films of directors, world cinema, Indian showcase, dimensions Mumbai and retrospectives.
Above The Cut, an out of competition section, will highlight those debut features which are extraordinary but could not be included in the competition section. Films to be screened in the section include Rwanda, The Day God Walked Away (France), She A Chinese (UK-France-Germany), Ajami (Germany-Israel), La Pivellina (Austria-Italy) and Should I really Do It? (Turkey).
Some of other Indian films to be screened at the festival include Bengali films like Buddhadeb Dasgupta‘s Janala and Rituparno Ghosh‘s Abohomaan along with Marathi films like Umesh Kulkarni‘s Vihir and Renuka Shahane‘s Rita and Madhupal‘s Malayalam film, The Crown.
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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.
