Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has once again praised Dhurandhar 2, but this time, he has also used the film to create excitement for his upcoming project. The director, who repeatedly praised Aditya Dhar’s action thriller on social media, said watching Dhurandhar 2 made him feel like his entire past work no longer mattered. He even added that he wants to be REBORN as a filmmaker after seeing the movie.
Varma has admired Dhurandhar 2 for its storytelling, performances, and technical brilliance. His latest statement grabbed attention because he linked his praise for the film with his next project, Syndicate. Many feel he is using the hype around Dhurandhar 2 to build curiosity for his own film. He also issued a dramatic warning to other filmmakers, suggesting they must learn from the new style of cinema or risk being left behind.
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Sharing his thoughts on X, Ram Gopal Varma revealed that Syndicate will explore a dark and intense theme. He wrote, “Syndicate is based on a premise – What if the entire law and order of India collapses in just one single day? It will be almost like a horror film, not because of any supernatural elements, but because it will bare open the horrors that exist in some human minds, which they can enact terrifyingly. Syndicate is about the rise of an organisation so powerful, so integrated, and so maniacally driven that it threatens the very existence of India. I believe that Syndicate is something which will match up to the post-Dhurandhar 2 era, and that is the reason for my decision.”
He explained why Dhurandhar 2 changed how he sees his own career. He said, “Here’s my take on why I want to wipe out my entire past and be a newborn or a reborn director post watching Dhurandhar 2… In effect, we all keep getting reshaped from time to time because of newer and newer experiences, which keep on elevating our benchmarks as they should. My benchmark films were The Sound of Music (Rangeela), The Exorcist (Raat, Bhoot) and The Godfather (Satya, Company, Sarkar). In my entire career, I was making films derived from those benchmarks and mainly from The Godfather.”
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Varma said that after watching the film, his earlier works now feel outdated. He shared, “But now, after seeing Dhurandhar 2, all my earlier films look like nothing. If The Godfather was my earlier benchmark in this genre, I now felt Dhurandhar 2 is like Godfather’s Godfather in the way, it redefined and reinvented everything, whether it’s craft, storytelling style, character design, background music, laying out emotional landscapes, artistes’ performances, action choreography, etc. So it’s common sense that I need to abandon the lessons learnt from the old schools of Coppola and join the new school of @AdityaDharFilms and that’s the only way one can stay updated.”
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He concluded with a strong warning for other filmmakers and said, “It will be a suicidal blunder on the part of any filmmaker/writer/star, not to shed their egos and do an intensive academic research study of #Dhurandhar2 and then take a deep relook and then rework on whatever they believed so far, and drastically adapt. By not doing so, and if you all will still stick to the same old cinematic beliefs, which were brutally killed on March 19 th 2026, you too will die.”
About Dhurandhar 2
Talking about the film, Dhurandhar 2 stars Ranveer Singh in the lead role and is set in Lyari, Karachi, an area known for gang wars and turf battles. The film follows covert intelligence operations and shows the transformation of Jaskirat Singh Rangi into spy Hamza Ali Mazari. The cast also includes Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Sanjay Dutt and Arjun Rampal.
