Hindi
Shankar Mohan is joint director in film festivals directorate
NEW DELHI: Shankar Mohan has been promoted as Joint Director in the Directorate of Film Festivals, becoming the first officer in more than a decade to function in this post.
Mohan has been with the Directorate for almost 20 years. He had joined the DFF as Deputy Director.
Prior to that, Mohan was a documentary filmmaker and has several films to his credit. He had done a four-year course in the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, in Direction and Screenplay writing and then made films for almost a decade before joining the DFF.
Mohan had been promoted to the post of Senior Deputy Director in the DFF in 2003. Now 53, Mohan has for the past few years been in charge of the foreign films section of the annual International Film Festival of India.
His present promotion has come just over a month before the 40th IFFI commences at Goa on 23 November.
It is learnt that Malati Sahay had been the last Joint Director but had functioned as head of the DFF for several years before her retirement in the late eighties. Another officer had been given this promotion on the eve of his retirement but had not functioned in that post, Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources told indiantelevision.com.
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.
