{"id":666094,"date":"2026-05-13T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666094\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:23:10","slug":"dhurandhar-is-not-real-mohan-kapur-says-he-doesnt-understand-the-hype-around-ranveer-singh-film-despite-its-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666094\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dhurandhar is not real\u2019: Mohan Kapur says he doesn\u2019t understand the hype around Ranveer Singh film despite its success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">Filmmaker <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/aditya-dhar\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Aditya Dhar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aditya Dhar<\/a>\u2019s spy thriller franchise <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/give-ranveer-singh-5-more-vanity-vans-dhurandhar-star-gaurav-gera-defends-actor-farah-khan-also-agrees-101778507379582.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Dhurandhar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dhurandhar<\/a>, headlined by <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/ranveer-singh\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Ranveer Singh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ranveer Singh<\/a>, has rewritten box office history in India despite drawing a divided response from critics. Amid the film\u2019s roaring success, actor <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/web-series\/ms-marvel-s-mohan-kapur-on-farhan-akhtar-and-fawad-khan-s-cameos-small-to-think-why-focus-is-on-them-they-re-stars-101654332158398.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Mohan Kapur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mohan Kapur<\/a> confessed that he still does not entirely understand the overwhelming hype surrounding the franchise.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dhurandhar_1778642791679_1778642791806.jpg\" alt=\"Dhurandhar was released in theatres on December 5, 2025, and Dhurandhar 2 on March 19 this year.\" title=\"Dhurandhar was released in theatres on December 5, 2025, and Dhurandhar 2 on March 19 this year.\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Dhurandhar was released in theatres on December 5, 2025, and Dhurandhar 2 on March 19 this year.Mohan Kapur on Dhurandhar<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Mohan joined Siddharth Kannan for a conversation for a video on his YouTube channel. During the chat, he opened up about the success of Dhurandhar and admitted that he does not completely agree with the excessive praise the film has been receiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">\u201cI watched the film alone in a theatre two weeks before the second part came out. It was the first time I had ever watched a film alone, and when I left the theatre, I honestly couldn\u2019t understand why everyone was praising it so much. I just didn\u2019t get it,\u201d Mohan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The actor continued, \u201cDhurandhar is a phenomenal film. It\u2019s very intelligent storytelling, which is why it has received both criticism and applause. It\u2019s cleverly written. Now, has the film claimed to be the truth? No. It\u2019s a story. They\u2019ve taken real instances and woven a very clever plot around them to make you think, \u2018Oh my God!\u2019 But it\u2019s not real. From the very first frame, the moment you see R <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/madhavan\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Madhavan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Madhavan<\/a>, you know the premise is wrong because the character they are depicting or implying was never there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More about Dhurandhar<\/p>\n<p>Dhurandhar was released in theatres on December 5, 2025, and Dhurandhar 2 on March 19 this year. Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, R Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Gaurav Gera, and Danish Pandor star in the two films. The first film collected  \u20b91307 crore worldwide, while the sequel has grossed over  \u20b91790 crore and is still running in theatres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The films tell the story of Jaskirat Singh Rangi, alias Hamza Ali Mazari, sent to Lyari in Pakistan to bring down a terror unit. He infiltrates a Baloch gang, marries the daughter of a Lyari politician and integrates into the society there to do this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Recently, Jyoti Deshpande of Jio Studios, one of the producers of the film, hinted at a surprise related to the movie, expected to be unveiled later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, she said, \u201cWe\u2019re not done with Dhurandhar yet. We\u2019ll hopefully have a surprise for the audience later this year. There\u2019s something up our sleeves.\u201d The statement has left fans guessing what it could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Aditya Dhar\u2019s spy thriller franchise Dhurandhar, headlined by Ranveer Singh, has rewritten box office history in India&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22097,68783,49,48,6182,75,337,6187,144134,38984],"class_list":["post-666094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-akshaye-khanna","tag-box-office-success","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dhurandhar","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-ranveer-singh","tag-ranveer-singh-dhurandhar","tag-spy-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}