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Govind Nihalani to make Ardh Satya 2
MUMBAI: Nearly 30 years after he made Ardh Satya, veteran filmmaker Govind Nihalani is all set to make a sequel of the cop drama.
“We are working on the sequel of Ardh Satya. Producer Manmohan Shetty has been really keen to make a sequel. We were toying with this idea since a long time. Finally we have decided to go ahead with it,” Nihalani said in a statement.
The movie followed the story of a policeman, played by Om Puri, struggling with the evils around him and with his own frailties.
It is said that the story will move ahead as the original story ended with cop (Om Puri) behind the bars. “So we explore what happens when he comes out of jail as an old man after serving his sentence for killing the goon Rama Shetty,” Nihalani added.
Ardh Satya, considered to be one of the best cop films made in India, had won many awards and it went on to become a landmark project in the history of cinema. The film had Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah and Sadashiv Amrapurkar.
“We thought of it to call ‘Ardh Satya 2‘. We are still working on the script and hopefully by the end of this year or early next year we will go on floors,” the 71-year-old said.
At a time when cop dramas like “Dabangg”, “Singham” are doing well at the box office, this seems to be the right time for the sequel.
Ask the filmmaker about the same and he says, “We are not cashing in on anything. The idea of a sequel was thought of long back. It‘s just that things have finalised now. The sequel will be very much different from the kind of cop dramas that we have seen recently.”
“‘Ardh Satya 2‘ will be a contemporary cop film not a remake of any South movie. Ours is a fresh story,” Nihalani said.
The makers have not yet finalised the star cast for the sequel, but they hope to retain veteran actor Om Puri.
“We would love to have Om Puri in the film. His character in the sequel will be of an older man. Apart from this, we have not thought of the main star cast yet,” Nihalani said.
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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.
