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‘Dhurandhar’ is a box office smash. Released in 2025, this movie is directed by Aditya Dhar. Before directing such a blockbuster movie ‘Dhurandhar’, Aditya directed only one movie and that too was a blockbuster. That is ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’. But Aditya Dhar, who has given two super hit movies and is now gearing up to give another blockbuster movie with ‘Dhurandhar 2’, came to the film industry by chance. Originally his dream was to become a cricketer.

Aditya Dhar, originally a Kashmiri Pandit. Education was not easy for Aditya who suffered from dyslexia in his childhood. But later, Aditya became interested in sports and dreamed of becoming a cricketer. Aditya also got cricket coaching. He also gave trials to Under 19 with the dream of playing cricket for India. But according to his own claim, he did not get a place in the Indian Under-19 team due to some politics. In the same boredom, he quit cricket.

But Aditya’s life changed with the release of the movie ‘Gardish’ in 1993. Aditya Dhar, who was greatly influenced by the film ‘Gardish’ starring Jackie Shroff and directed by Priyadarshan, decided that he should become a film director and entered the film industry. He joined director Priyadarshan as an assistant director. Initially also wrote some stories but there too he had to face some injustices. According to director Priyadarshan, in the beginning it was as if someone else had stolen his stories. As if they were not even given marks for the work they did.

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But the work he did for Priyadarshan got him a mark. Priyadarshan wrote dialogues for his movies. As Priyadarshan himself said in an interview, Aditya was a very good writer and used to write good dialogues for my films.

Aditya Dhar was first supported to become a director by producer and director Karan Johar. Aditya Dhar was going to direct a movie named ‘Raat Baaki’. It is produced by Karan Johar. The film stars Katrina Kaif and Pakistani actor Fahad Khan. But at the same time there was an arson attack. Karan was forced to drop Pakistani actors. The film ‘Raat Baki’, which was to be directed by Aditya, was shelved.

But Aditya Dhar, who was inspired by this, made the movie ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ based on the ‘Uri’ attack and the subsequent surgical strike by the Indian Army. Even when Vicky Kaushal was chosen as the lead for the movie ‘Uri’, many people criticized Aditya. Because then Vicky Kaushal had not become a commercial hero. But Aditya trusted Vicky and gave him the role, and Vicky brought life to that role. What follows is history.

The movie ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ became a blockbuster. But after that, Aditya, who wrote stories for some movies and also produced the movies, made the movie ‘Dhurandhar’ six years later. The movie became a blockbuster. Now the sequel of the same movie ‘Dhurandhar 2’ is ready for release. The movie will be released on March 19, and it is said that it will be a box office rager.

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