Shridhar Raghavan: Naysayers claimed we had lost audience’s pulse

Updated On: 06 March, 2023 07:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma

As Pathaan pips Baahubali 2 to become highest Hindi grosser, writer says film’s success holds special meaning to B’wood after negativity of past three years

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The Pathaan party refuses to stop. Over five weeks since its release, the Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham-starrer has become the highest-grossing Hindi film. With its domestic figure standing at R513.70 crore, it has surpassed the collections of the Hindi version of Baahubali: The Conclusion to grab the top spot. For Shridhar Raghavan, who wrote the espionage thriller, the mammoth success reaffirms his faith in the audiences’ love for Hindi cinema. “[The success] is particularly heartening considering the gloomy, doomsday narrative that was projected around Hindi films over the last couple of years. Naysayers claimed that our industry had lost the pulse of the audience, and painted depressing scenarios,” he says.

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