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News18
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
‘Core Memories': Pranay Pachauri Drops Special Glimpses From Metro...In Dino
The first two pictures depict Pranay's fun moments with Anurag Basu during the making of the film in Kolkata. Pranay Pachauri is basking in the love coming his way after the release of his latest romantic drama, Metro… In Dino. Directed by Anurag Basu, the film has performed well at the domestic box office, earning around Rs 39 crore, according to As the film continues to play in theatres, Pranay took a moment to treat fans to some special behind-the-scenes memories from the shoot. Taking to Instagram, the actor shared a series of nostalgic pictures and videos from the making of the film. The first two images capture Pranay's candid moments with director Anurag Basu in Kolkata. In one of them, the actor is seen sitting on a hand-pulled rickshaw, while Basu is seen playfully holding onto it from the front. The post also includes a photo of the film's script and a screenshot of an Excel sheet listing the cast, including Anupam Kher, Neena Gupta, Darshana Banik and Pranay himself. Another video shows a snippet from the film's dubbing session, offering fans a peek into the post-production process. Pranay also shared a heartwarming photo from inside a Kolkata tram, where he's seen sitting beside co-star Darshana. Additional snaps featured his vanity van, a behind-the-scenes moment with cinematographer Abhishek Subrata Basu and the film's official poster. Captioning the carousel, the actor simply wrote, 'Core Memories." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pranay Singh Pachauri (@pranaypachauri) Fans and admirers were quick to share their reactions to the post. Dancer Mukti Mohan commented, 'Shine on Pachaurieeee." An Instagram user wrote, 'Whatta movie and I was so glad to see you there broo! Many congratulations!" Another one shared, 'This is a dream to live." Apart from Pranay, the film also features an ensemble cast including Aditya Roy Kapur, Sara Ali Khan, Anupam Kher, Neena Gupta, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Pankaj Tripathi and Konkona Sen Sharma in the leads. It follows the interconnected stories of several couples in a metro city, exploring their journeys and the shifting dynamics of modern love. The film is a spiritual successor to the 2008 film Life…In A Metro. The film is receiving praise from all corners, especially for its heartfelt storytelling, ensemble cast performances and Pritam's evocative songs such as Zamaana Lage, Aur Mohabbat Kitni Karoon, Qayde Se, Dil Ka Kya and others. Coming back to Pranay, he has also appeared in films like The Kerala Story and Shershaah. First Published: July 15, 2025, 17:39 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
News18
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Is Metro...In Dino's Budget Rs 85 Crore? Find Out The Truth
Last Updated: Anurag Basu's eagerly awaited anthology drama Metro… In Dino is generating a lot of buzz for its reported budget. Anurag Basu's eagerly awaited anthology drama Metro… In Dino has generated a lot of hype not just for its ensemble cast but also for its reported budget. The star-studded movie was reportedly made on a huge Rs 85 crore budget, which is a significant sum for any Bollywood romantic film. There are now questions over whether it was a hit or a bust because the movie made Rs 30 crore in eight days. Sources have recently revealed the real cost of production. ' Metro…In Dino was made on a fairly small scale with Rs 40 crore for production and Rs 7 crore for print and promotion, contrary to what many might assume," a source familiar with the project said. The source further added that the film relied on substance and sincerity rather than size. The film, which is a spiritual follow-up to Basu's critically acclaimed Life… In A Metro (2007), stars Sara Ali Khan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Neena Gupta, Anupam Kher, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Ali Fazal, Konkona Sen Sharma, and Pankaj Tripathi. Metro…In Dino, aimed at urban centres, has failed to maintain its momentum following its first weekend. The diminishing figures indicate that the producers will have a hard time recouping their investment. According to the box office tracking site Sacnilk, the Bollywood film has made Rs 26.85 crore in India in just one week. Although the second weekend's business must improve, it is improbable that India's total revenue will surpass Rs 50 crore. Netflix has acquired the OTT rights of the multi-starrer film, the Republic World reported. Given how slowly it is doing at the box office, recovering the budget will be an enormous undertaking. Metro…In Dino had only recouped about 35% of its expected production costs in just 7 days. The music, a joint effort by Basu and Pritam, who reunited following their successful collaborations on films like Barfi! and Life… In A Metro is what further fuels the high-budget rumours. The film is most likely to end its run at the box office below Rs 50 crore and become a box office failure. It is concerning for Sara and Aditya, who have been hoping that Metro…In Dino will succeed after a run of box office setbacks. First Published: Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
News18
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Metro In Dino Day 8: Anurag Basu's Film Earns ₹2 Crore On Second Friday
The film is facing higher competition this week with a slew of new releases, Superman, Maalik and Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan. Anurag Basu's musical romance drama Metro In Dino continues to perform steadily at the box office as it enters its second week. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast, including Aditya Roy Kapur, Sara Ali Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Anupam Kher, and Neena Gupta, the film explores the complexities of modern relationships through multiple interwoven stories. With consistent audience interest, Metro In Dino is now inching closer to the ₹30 crore mark. According to Sacnilk, Metro In Dino opened to a decent start with ₹3.25 crore on its first day and wrapped up its opening weekend with a net collection of ₹15.75 crore. The Anurag Basu-directed film maintained a steady run throughout the week, crossing the ₹25 crore mark by the end of its first week. Now in its second week, the film has added another ₹2.25 crore as of Friday, bringing its total net collection in India to approximately ₹29 crore. The film is facing higher competition this week with a slew of new releases, Superman, Maalik and Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan. It will be interesting to see if the movie gains traction on the second Saturday and Sunday as well. Metro In Dino tells the experiences of numerous couples navigating modern love and relationships in metropolitan cities. The film delves into the intricacies, upheavals, and surprising decisions that define love in modern times. This is a spiritual sequel to the 2007 romance drama Life…In A Metro. While Konkona is the only actor who has been cast from the previous film, Pankaj plays a character similar to Irrfan Khan's Monty alongside her. He is portrayed as a unique, emotionally complex person navigating the complications of modern relationships. The film is being praised for its genuine storyline, ensemble cast performances, and Pritam's haunting songs, which include Zamaana Lage, Aur Mohabbat Kitni Karoon, Qayde Se, Dil Ka Kya, and more. Anurag Basu's next film is an untitled musical romance drama starring Kartik Aaryan and Sreeleela in the major roles. The film, backed by T-Series, will be released this Diwali. It will face stiff competition from Ayushmann Khurrana and Rashmika Mandanna's horror-comedy Thama. First Published: July 12, 2025, 09:32 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Pink Villa
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Metro In Dino Day 4 India Box Office: Anurag Basu's movie holds BUT at very low levels on 1st Monday; Nets Rs 2.40 crore
Anurag Basu's Metro… In Dino has earned Rs 2.25-2.50 crore net on its first Monday at the Indian box office. This reflects a reasonable 70 percent hold from its opening day collection of Rs 3.25 crore. The film's opening weekend totaled Rs 15.75 crore, with day-wise collections of Rs 3.25 crore on Friday, Rs 5.75 crore on Saturday, and Rs 6.75 crore on Sunday. While the Monday hold of Anurag Basu ' film in percentage terms is solid, the low numbers suggest the film will struggle to make a significant impact, especially with new releases set to flood theatres. The Day Wise Net India Collections Of Dino Are As Under Dino Has Positive Word Of Mouth Going By The Hold; But Collections Remain Underwhelming The film, a spiritual sequel to 2007's Life… In A Metro, features a stellar cast including Sara Ali Khan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Pankaj Tripathi, and Fatima Sana Shaikh. It explores modern relationships in urban settings. Despite positive reviews, its box office performance remains underwhelming. The film has performed best in urban centers like Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, and Delhi. However, unlike its predecessor, the film's music has failed to become as big as its predicessor, despite being really soothing to the ears. A hit soundtrack could have pushed the opening weekend closer to Rs 25 crore, with lifetime collections having a chance to go past Rs 50 crore. Dino's Box Office Trend Suggests A Finish In The Rs 30-35 Crore Net Range With new releases arriving this Friday, Metro… In Dino's screen count and showtimes will shrink, in turn hampering its run. The film's total cost, including production and marketing, is estimated at Rs 100 crore, with Rs 70 crore already recovered through non-theatrical deals. To break even, it needs at least Rs 55 crore net in India. Current trends suggest lifetime collections of Rs 30-35 crore; a number well short of the target. Better Opening Could Have Done Dino A Big Favour The 70 percent Monday hold is encouraging, showing some audience loyalty in urban markets. Yet, the low absolute numbers and looming competition make a robust box office run unlikely. Dino needed a stronger opening to leverage its positive word-of-mouth. As it stands, the film's theatrical performance may not cover its remaining costs, marking a financial loss to the film's makers. Dino In Theatres Dino plays in theatres. Stay tuned to Pinkvilla for more such box office updates.
Indian Express
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Metro In Dino movie review: Sara Ali Khan plays a Kareena Kapoor-coded character in Anurag Basu's annoying and exhilarating film
It stands to reason that Metro In Dino will have thematic similarities with its spiritual predecessor Life… In A Metro: warring couples, predatory bosses, commitment-phobic men, confused women, straying and returning, sacrifice and recompense. It also has straight-up reprises. Konkona Sen Sharma, whose pairing with Irrfan was one of the highlights of the original, is the only one from the previous cast making a return, with Pankaj Tripathi standing in for the late, great actor; and the three-member band, led by Pritam, is strewn all over the film, like it was in the earlier iteration. In the interim– eighteen years is a long time—so much has changed. Those clunky cell-phones, which a couple of characters used in the earlier film, have changed to the sleek oblongs everyone carries these days, with laptops, tablets, and an overuse of every other device that promises connection, but provides only disconnection. You don't need an empty flat with a key, the idea borrowed from Billy Wilder's classic The Apartment, to plan an assignation; you can just create a profile on a dating app and get right down to sexting, even if you choose to call it Linger, rather than Tinder. But the one thing, if you go by Anurag Basu's characters, that hasn't changed are humans and their frailties and egos which come in the way of true connection. Pankaj and Konkona, as Monty (I still haven't got over that name; who would ever have thought of Irrfan as a still-a-virgin-at-nearly-forty, unable to hide sexual neediness but wistful with it?) and Kajol, are weathering the sort of boredom that besets most married couples who behave like old socks, rather than sparkly stockings. Kajol's younger sister Chumki (Sara Ali Khan) is trying hard to be a compliant girlfriend in preparation to be a good wife to a guy who wears his suspicions on his sleeve, when not shrugging his shoulders, a personality tic that she doesn't notice until it is pointed out to her by travel vlogger Parth (Aditya Roy Kapoor) in a meet-not-so-cute moment. Kajol and Chumki's mother Shivani (Neena Gupta), who gave up her dreams of becoming an actor when she married the girls' dictatorial dad (Saswata Chatterjee) is given a chance to relive her youth during a college reunion, where she runs into old flame Parimal (Anupam Kher). Another strand is fronted by Shruti (Fatima Sana) and husband Akash (Ali Fazal) whose double-income-no-kids corporate grind is threatened by her sudden pregnancy and his deep-seated desire to become a musician. Termination is an option; unhappiness and resentment is a resultant outcome. What I really enjoyed in the film were the nimble writerly leaps and the people speaking to each other as people do, in sentences which feel as if they are coming from the character's lives, rather than rehearsed dialogues on the page. Yes, there is the occasional floweriness, but that's just Basu leaning into his bent for amping up the mundane. The plot moves swiftly along for the most part, and this time around, there are four metros jostling for attention– Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore– as well as Goa and Shimla. As the architect of edifices full of messy emotions and registering graphs of hurt and happiness, Basu retains his old touch, and I found myself smiling in the dark, especially in the first half. His style, a mix of the real and hyper-real, always teetering close to making us roll our eyes, outlining even as it underlines, makes for a very specific kind of film, stuffed with fleeting moments of delight when the camera catches characters off-guard, as they go about doing things in a naturalistic manner, before careering off into another exaggerated curve. Things do slacken post-interval; a couple of crucial situations repeat themselves, and the film strains to fill its nearly three hour length. One of the biggest surprises of 'Life.. was Irrfan as the self-proclaimed jackass but very likeable Monty, who gives full play to the character's foolishness ; here, Pankaj Tripathi is allowed to get into full-on burlesque-mode– I think I caught a flash of him hurriedly kissing a female toe– and hot and bothered in rumpled-sheet situations. Can anyone beat Irrfan on all those scores? Not really. But is Pankaj a hoot in some of his scenes, and Konkona is as good as it gets ? Yes, and yes. I did find a few threads not working in tandem, especially the one revolving around a young teenager's prolonged wondering if she likes 'girls or boys'. Quite a contemporary touch, but heavy-handed, and meandering. There's also the one involving Anupam Kher's widowed daughter-in-law (Darshana Bainik) and his laboured attempts at giving her her 'jaa apni zindagi jee le' moment, in which he asks for and gets Neena Gupta's willing help: that portion feels both outdated and outlandish. A few characters in this large ensemble do not get enough play: in a truly great film, even walk-ons have flash, even if they were always meant to be on the sidelines. You also wish, just like in the original, that Pritam and co would be heard less, and seen even lesser: yes, we know that the lilting soundtrack they create functions as a leitmotif-commentator-character, and Papon's voice is dreamy, but after a point you want less, not more. Aditya Roy Kapoor makes you miss Basu's original muse Ranbir Kapoor, who patented the self-obsessed man-child character, but does well enough as the breezy, irresponsible fellow turning over a new leaf, Sara Ali Khan, playing a Kareena Kapoor-coded character, fares better here than she has in most of her previous films. She also gets a let-all-the angst-out-with-a-shout moment, taking you right back to a similar situation in the original. Watch | Konkona Sen Sharma on Metro… In Dino Ali Fazal and Fatima Sana Shaikh dance around relatable dilemmas– careers, aspirations, children– even though he comes off more hangdog than anything else, and she a bit too morose. And just like veterans Dharmendra and Nafisa in the earlier one, Anupam Kher and Neena Gupta show how it's done, rising above their improbable bits. But there's enough zest in the rest of it to keep us humming, and the film, even in its looseness and overly-stretchiness, thrumming. And what a relief, in these days of ham-fisted badly-made patriotic sagas and loud family melodramas, to find adult characters doing adult things, talking up desire and lust and love, even if you can see hints of conservativeness– characters getting into bed, but not going all the way– perhaps as a nod to these times which is bent upon taming all individual passion. This really should be a series, because life is unruly and ungainly, spilling over the edges, annoying and exhilarating, in equal measure, and when Metro In Dino is at its best, it catches all those beats: I just hope Basu will not take eighteen years to make his third. Metro.. In Dino movie cast: Anupam Kher, Neena Gupta, Konkona Sen Sharma, Pankaj Tripathi, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Saswata Chatterjee, Darshana Bainik, Kush Jotwani, Rohan Gurbaxani Metro.. In Dino movie director: Anurag Basu Metro.. In Dino movie rating: Three stars
