VFX Shockwave: Why Bollywood Biggies Are Silent on Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar, Says RGV

As Dhurandhar ends 2025 as a blockbuster, Ram Gopal Varma explains silence, VFX impact, and fear among Bollywood filmmakers today.

Hindi film will conclude 2025 on a strong note due to Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar, which has established itself as one of Bollywood's massive hits. Many popular Bollywood figures have praised the Aditya Dhar directed film, which has created a lot of hype. Ram Gopal Varma, the most recent to jump on this bandwagon, has also considered the reasons behind the silence of several prominent Bollywood figures on the film.

Whenever a groundbreaking and monstrous hit like #dhurandhar comes, the industry people will wish to ignore it because they will feel threatened by it due to their inability to match its standards, Varma wrote on A social media page. They will therefore perceive it as a nightmare that will end when they awaken in their own films.

This is even truer of all the known pan India biggies, which are currently under various stages of production, he continued. They were all written and mounted, based on films produced before #dhurandhar, which is the complete reverse of what they all thought would be successful. Even more concerning is the fact that #dhurandhar is the most discussed film of the past 50 years in addition to being a massive hit.

Every audience experienced an incident like they were going to visit someone's house and they saw a large, scary looking dog that kept staring at them, RGV stated. #Durandhar will be like that monstrous dog, with its looming VFX presence, that will be subtly pacing around in every production office where the upcoming biggies are being made, even though the owner assures them it's harmless and advises them to ignore it. The tension will persist and keep growing and they are unable to avoid seeing it from the corner of their eyes.