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Bharati Dubey

17 May 2026 at 1:38:10 am

After Don-3 controversy, Ranveer’s next film goes on floors

Mumbai: After months of attention surrounding his reported exit from Don 3, Ranveer Singh has finally moved on to his next major cinematic venture. The actor’s ambitious survival spectacle Pralay has officially gone on floors in Mumbai today, marking the beginning of filming on one of the most ambitious and scale-driven projects in Indian cinema. Headlined by Ranveer Singh and directed by Jai Mehta, Pralay is an original end-of-the-world action thriller that promises to take audiences into a...

After Don-3 controversy, Ranveer’s next film goes on floors

Mumbai: After months of attention surrounding his reported exit from Don 3, Ranveer Singh has finally moved on to his next major cinematic venture. The actor’s ambitious survival spectacle Pralay has officially gone on floors in Mumbai today, marking the beginning of filming on one of the most ambitious and scale-driven projects in Indian cinema. Headlined by Ranveer Singh and directed by Jai Mehta, Pralay is an original end-of-the-world action thriller that promises to take audiences into a world on the brink of annihilation. Produced by Ananya Birla’s Birla Studios, Hansal Mehta and Sahil Saigal’s True Story Films, and Maa Kasam Films, the film combines large-scale spectacle with a deeply human story of survival, courage and the instinct to fight for what matters most. The film marks Ranveer’s next major motion picture following Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar – The Revenge, which emerged as the highest-grossing film of all time. With Pralay, the actor once again ventures into unexplored cinematic territory, taking on a disruptive new concept that demands both physical intensity and emotional conviction. Ranveer will also serve as a producer on the film. The project comes at an important point in the actor’s career. His reported exit from Don 3 had generated considerable buzz, particularly as he was expected to carry forward one of Indian cinema’s most iconic franchises. With Pralay, Ranveer now turns the page with an entirely original story rather than stepping into another established universe. Joining him is Lokah breakout actress Kalyani Priyadarshan, who plays a pivotal role in the film and brings together another exciting performer from the new generation of Indian talent. For Ananya Birla, Pralay represents Birla Studios’ ambition to push the boundaries of mainstream Indian cinema by collaborating with contemporary creative forces. For True Story Films’ Hansal Mehta and Sahil Saigal, the project reflects their commitment to disruptive storytelling and content-driven cinema. Behind the camera, Jai Mehta leads the ambitious project. His work on Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, which he co-directed with Hansal Mehta, and Lootere has earned widespread acclaim. With Pralay, he steps into a significantly larger canvas, bringing together an ensemble of creative and technical talent from India and around the world. Set against the unmistakable pulse and landscape of Mumbai, Pralay follows a relentless journey of survival against the terrifying possibility of an end-of-the-world catastrophe. The film aims to marry breathtaking spectacle with an emotional core, exploring what people are willing to do to survive when the world as they know it begins to collapse. The makers are shooting extensively at live locations in and around Mumbai, embracing the physicality and unpredictability of real-world environments. The approach is designed to add scale, texture and realism to the apocalyptic world while creating an immersive theatrical experience. The film had already undergone several months of highly technical and intensive pre-production before cameras began rolling. Its ambitious mounting and unusual premise have made Pralay one of the most talked-about upcoming projects in Indian cinema.

How Maharashtra failed Rahul Gandhi

Updated: Nov 25, 2024

Rahul Gandhi

Mumbai: The victory of the Mahayuti in the Assembly polls has yet again put focus on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and a question mark on his inability to read the pulse and issues related to the state and its voters.


The fact that the Congress party has faced a humiliating defeat in the very same state it was founded a 138 years ago – on December 28, 1885 – brings forth the fact that both the Gandhi family and its top leadership within the party are either being too complacent or have lost the plot.


Over the last few years, the state has been under constant flux of change. Apart from the shift in the traditional vote banks of the party, there has also been a decline in the identification and nurturing of leadership at ground level. The candidate list of the Congress party had some names which where both unfamiliar with the local voters and party members. Many candidates who were given tickets did not even have a basic party membership.


The Congress manifesto which the party unveiled towards the end of the election code of conduct was hurriedly put together devoid of any thought and nothing but a duplication of the schemes already announced by the Mahayuti.


Added to that every election has its own first-time voters and the fact that Rahul Gandhi or his associates made no attempt to reach out to them said a lot about his interest in converting them into a long-term Congress voters like other parties do.


A senior Congress leader observes that there were several factors that led to the loss of the party in the state, the foremost being the internal camps within the party followed by the fact that the Congress could not distribute tickets to its candidates on time due to which none of the candidates could campaign.


“The third and fourth list of candidate came towards the end of the deadline to file the nominations due to which a large number of candidates did not even have the much required time to plan and fight the polls in their constituencies,” he says adding that unlike PM Modi who was seen holding rallies every other day in every assembly in the state, Rahul did not attend to many rallies.


“He came once to Vidharbha, Nagpur and Mumbai. The BJP who had instructed all of their CMs from other states to come and campaign for their candidates for the whole duration. During election time people tend to notice all of this – you need to be visible not only to your voters but also on social media, all of this counts which unfortunately Rahul did not do,” the leader observes.


Another senior Congressman on condition of anonymity points out that its as not much about Maharashtra failing Rahul Gandhi as much it is about the leadership.


The focus of the Congress leadership was who would be the chief minister rather than how the party should win. Another important issue was Shiv Sena (UBT) overestimated its performance while Congress underestimated it without having a fair and studied reality check. The tendency of the Congress to outsource its entire decision making process from selection of candidates to selection of seats to only MLAs is erroneous and foolish. Because these MLAs only have one criteria in their minds, how to ensure their own survival! That’s why several seats which the Congress could have done well on were given to the Sena.


Gandhi’s trust in people disconnected from the state too is the reason for the party’s dismal performance. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is the most experienced outsider on Maharashtra. The appointments of elitist Jairam Ramesh and bureaucratic Pawan Khera was a bad combination during election campaigns, especially in taking up the BJP while the latter is in the government. “We must remember, that during the UPA rule, the BJP always deployed politicians with mass appeal like Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj to always put the UPA on the backfoot,” the leader pointed.

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