{"id":368602,"date":"2026-03-27T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368602\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:57:08","slug":"dhurandhar-2-only-r-madhavan-said-yes-immediately-arjun-rampal-sanjay-dutt-and-akshaye-khanna-werent-sure-mukesh-chhabra-on-dhurandhar-casting-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368602\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhurandhar 2: \u2018Only R Madhavan said yes immediately; Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna weren’t sure\u2019: Mukesh Chhabra on Dhurandhar casting | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018OnlyAditya Dhar\u2019s Dhurandhar has been dominating conversations ever since its first instalment, winning both critical acclaim and audience love. While the film\u2019s performances have been widely praised, casting director Mukesh Chhabra has now revealed that getting its star-studded ensemble on board wasn\u2019t easy. Aditya Dhar<\/a>\u2019s Dhurandhar has been dominating conversations ever since its first instalment, winning both critical acclaim and audience love. While the film\u2019s performances have been widely praised, casting director Mukesh Chhabra<\/a> has now revealed that getting its star-studded ensemble on board wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n

\u2018Only R Madhavan agreed instantly\u2019<\/p>\n

In a recent interaction with Hindustan Times, Mukesh Chhabra opened up about the casting process.\u201cInitially, even Arjun Rampal<\/a>, Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna were not sure about being a part of the film. Only R Madhavan said yes. For the others, it took time,\u201d he said.He added that the scale of casting evolved over time. \u201cAditya and I were considering so many people, and honestly, earlier we had never thought we would cast so many big stars. We had a very different kind of actors in mind. Then I pushed him to think bigger.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u2018It all fell into place gradually\u2019<\/p>\n

Chhabra further explained how the ensemble slowly came together.\u201cWhen you start a film, you wonder how so many big actors will come on board. At first, none of this was there, but gradually, as we discussed, it started falling into place,\u201d he said. Talking about the hesitation among actors, Chhabra highlighted a key concern in multi-starrers \u2014 screen time.\u201cMadhavan and Arjun were on the set only for 12 days. Most actors usually worry about how much screen time they will get. We told them that here, impact is what matters,\u201d he shared.\u201cIf you look at Madhavan\u2019s part, with only 12 to 14 days of work, the impact of the role is huge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aditya Dhar\u2019s Dhurandhar has been dominating conversations ever since its first instalment, winning both critical acclaim and audience…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[82519,45148,82520,82522,96613,165786,165785,93,61,60,270,154194,80237,1281],"class_list":{"0":"post-368602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aditya-dhar","9":"tag-akshaye-khanna","10":"tag-arjun-rampal","11":"tag-dhurandhar","12":"tag-dhurandhar-2","13":"tag-dhurandhar-actors","14":"tag-dhurandhar-casting","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-mukesh-chhabra","20":"tag-r-madhavan","21":"tag-sanjay-dutt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}