{"id":603449,"date":"2026-04-24T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:36:10","slug":"imtiaz-ali-dhurandhar-brought-people-closer-to-cinemas-says-imtiaz-ali-as-he-applauds-ranveer-singhs-action-thriller-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603449\/","title":{"rendered":"Imtiaz Ali: &#8216;Dhurandhar&#8217; brought people closer to cinemas,&#8217; says Imtiaz Ali as he applauds Ranveer Singh\u2019s action thriller | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777026970_105_3.jpg\" alt=\"'Dhurandhar' brought people closer to cinemas,' says Imtiaz Ali as he applauds Ranveer Singh\u2019s action thriller\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> As filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/imtiaz-ali\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imtiaz Ali<\/a> prepares for the release of his upcoming film &#8216;Main Vapas Aaunga&#8217;, he has weighed in on the blockbuster runs of &#8216;Dhurandhar&#8217; and &#8216;Saiyaara&#8217; and what their success means for <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indian-cinema\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indian cinema<\/a>. The filmmaker also said that the success of recent films is a clear sign that audiences are eager to return to theaters when the content is worth their time and money.<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz Ali says no film&#8217;s success comes at another&#8217;s expense<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IANS during promotions of &#8216;Main Vapas Aaunga&#8217;, Imtiaz Ali dismissed the notion that one genre&#8217;s success hurts another, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel that the working of a certain type of film excludes the working of any other type of film. I&#8217;ve seen all my life, people say, &#8216;Love stories are working, so the action films won&#8217;t work&#8217;. It&#8217;s not like that. When &#8216;Sholay&#8217; was about to release, people were saying &#8216;Sholay&#8217; won&#8217;t work. But, look what that film has turned out to be. The same doubts people had about &#8216;Dhurandhar&#8217; when it was about to release.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Watch<\/p>\n<p> Aditya Dhar Plans Dhurandhar BTS Film Release in Theatres Amid Record-Breaking Box Office Run<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz Ali says people want to watch good cinema<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz also pointed to the surprise success of Mohit Suri&#8217;s &#8216;Saiyaara&#8217;, a love story featuring new faces, as further proof that audiences have no fixed formula. He said, &#8220;People were like, love stories won&#8217;t work. Love stories are not working, that too with new people, but then there&#8217;s &#8216;Saiyaara&#8217;. So the point is, people want to watch good cinema. And when any good cinema works, every filmmaker is internally very happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz Ali celebrates every film that brings audiences to theaters<\/p>\n<p>The director expressed genuine happiness over every recent theatrical success, adding, &#8220;&#8216;Dhurandhar&#8217; brought people closer to the theater, and I&#8217;m very glad about that. And &#8216;Saiyaara&#8217; did the same, and so many films did the same. And I&#8217;m very glad for all of the films that succeeded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More about Imtiaz Ali<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz Ali&#8217;s &#8216;Main Vapas Aaunga&#8217; is set to release in cinemas on June 12, 2026. The filmmaker last directed <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/diljit-dosanjh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diljit Dosanjh<\/a> and Parineeti Chopra&#8217;s &#8216;Amar Singh Chamkila&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As filmmaker Imtiaz Ali prepares for the release of his upcoming film &#8216;Main Vapas Aaunga&#8217;, he has weighed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[143300,117610,2161,88,262503,143299,69851,262502,206,89157,4950,16634],"class_list":["post-603449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amar-singh-chamkila","tag-dhurandhar","tag-diljit-dosanjh","tag-entertainment","tag-good-cinema","tag-imtiaz-ali","tag-indian-cinema","tag-main-vapas-aaunga","tag-movies","tag-parineeti-chopra","tag-ranveer-singh","tag-saiyaara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}