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ZEE Samvad with Real Heroes 2026: Madhur Bhandarkar WINS Voice of Social Reality in Cinema award

ZEE Samvad with Real Heroes 2026: Madhur Bhandarkar WINS Voice of Social Reality in Cinema award

ZEE Samvad with Real Heroes 2026: Madhur Bhandarkar WINS Voice of Social Reality in Cinema award | Bollywood Life Home News and Gossip ZEE Samvad with Real Heroes 2026: Madhur Bhandarkar WINS Voice of Social Reality in Cinema award Many prominent faces graced the Zee Samvad Real Heroes Award 2026, including Maharashtra Minister Nitesh Rane, Mangla Mani, Palak Muchchal, Mithoon Sharma, Mona Singh, Rakul Preet Singh, Madhur Bhandarkar, and Ahan Shetty, among others. ZEE Samvad with Real Heroes 2026: Indian film director and screenwriter Madhur Bhandarkar was conferred the Voice of Social Reality in Cinema award at Zee Samvad Real Heroes 2026. The event took place at Mumbai’s The Fairmont and was organised by Media Corporation, India’s first and largest news network. The award was presented to him by Zee Media Corporation CEO Raktim Das and Yogesh Bhutani, Founder of Nexus Alliance. At the event, Madhur Bhandarkar spoke on various aspects of the film and entertainment industry and his …

Madhur Bhandarkar Says People Thought Chandni Bar Title Was B-Grade, Cheap | Bollywood News

Madhur Bhandarkar Says People Thought Chandni Bar Title Was B-Grade, Cheap | Bollywood News

Last Updated:December 15, 2025, 08:52 IST Madhur Bhandarkar recalls making Chandni Bar on an extremely small budget and explains why Heroine needed far more money despite being a very different film. Madhur Bhandarkar on how Chandni Bar was criticised. In Bollywood, bigger stars often mean bigger money. But filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar believes that budgets should follow the story, not the scale of fame attached to it. Looking back at his career, the director has often pointed out how dramatically budgets can change from one film to another — even within his own filmography. One of his most striking comparisons came when he spoke about the gap between his early, raw cinema and his later, more glamorous films. A comparison that says it all Talking about the making of Chandni Bar (2001), Madhur Bhandarkar once revealed just how modest the budget of the National Award-winning film really was. The director compared it to the scale of his 2012 film Heroine, which starred Kareena Kapoor. “I made the movie (Chandni Bar) on a very small budget. So …