The amount Aditya Dhar was spending per day on shooting Uri, he was spending almost 11 to 12 lakhs lesser than that every day on shooting Dhurandhar. As a source close to the film told this writer, it was insanity the way the team pulled off this film.

What is the cost of shooting the actual end product? How much did it cost? The source said it’s about Rs. 255 crores. Yes, both the films together cost a paltry Rs 255 crores to shoot. Originally, it was meant to be one film only. But an 8-hour film seemed out of the question. Hence, Dhurandhar was split into two.

The length increased as the film was being shot. The small montages were turning into big, big scenes. And those big scenes were turning out to be highlights, one after the other. So, what to cut? The source explained, “A scene that was meant to be for say 10 seconds, it actually required two minutes.”

To take an example, there was the scene in which Major Iqbal is introduced. Arjun Rampal’s character is introduced where he says that I want to buy guns. That was supposed to be two-and-a-half-minute scene. It eventually became eight-nine minutes long.

The source further said that while Aditya had a water-tight script, the dialogues were enhanced on the sets. A lot of the banter which you hear in the film are actually what he thought on the set on the day of the shooting.

But the end product is almost 95 to 96% close to the main script. The original script.  “And he is very thorough with my script. He is very thorough with his research,” said the source.

The source further said that most the entire film was shot was by Aditya Dhar, with some assistance from a second unit. But all the main crucial sequences were shot by Aditya Dhar personally.

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