Dhurandhar: Ram Gopal Varma Lists EVERYTHING Aditya Dhar’s Film Starring Ranveer Singh Has Taught Him

It seems maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma (RGV), who has given classics like Satya, Company, Siva is quite enamoured by Aditya Dhar's latest - Dhurandhar. After showering praise on the Ranveer Singh blockbuster, calling it a game-changer for Indian cinema, Varma went on to applaud the film once again and mention how the industry was "threatened" by its success. A little while back, the director has once again shared a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter, listing everything he has learnt, "from Coppola to Aditya Dhar."Taking to X, Varma shared that a director grows not only from what he has learnt from filmmakers who came before them, "but also from directors who came after him." He went on to add, "In that context here are my new learnings

from Aditya Dhar’s DURANDHAR."

The director went on to list that from Francis Ford Coppola he learned "intense closeted drama," which he tried to emulate in Satya, Company and Sarkar, among other films. However, Varma went on to add that Dhurandhar has now shown him that "approach can work far more effectively with scale."

"Writing scenes assuming the audience will feel even before they understand is a new one," Varma stated, alluding to Dhar's blockbuster.The Company director went on to reveal he was one of the first mainstream Indian difrectors to refuse "elevation of heroes," listing the character Bhiku Mhatre and how Amitabh Bachchan worked in Sarkar without a single slow motion shot. However, he admitted that Dhurandhar "invents a never before seen or experience new kind of elevation in creating flawed by consequence driven heroes.""Making a star disappear into the story is a new one."The director also stated the other lessons he learnt from Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar, including "violence should hurt the viewer" and action should be designed "as an organic and emotional projection." He also pointed out how Dhurandhar uses fractured narratives in such dexterity as to "command attention."Among other things spoken by Varma, Dhurandhar also does not chase validation and that "sound and music in a strange mating ritual can become the lead psychological forces even more powerful than dialogue and visual.""My final learning is that i don’t need to grow by myself , but i need to catch up with what others have become," shared Varma, before alluding to Dhar and concluding, "Hey @AdityaDharFilms, thank you for becoming the new Ayn Rand of my life - “ Art is not what it is .. Art is what it could be"."