India, Aug. 2 -- Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has compared Shazia Iqbal's Dhadak 2 to films by Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, K A Abbas, B R Chopra, and Yash Chopra. Taking to Instagram on Saturday, Anurag penned a long note praising the film's lead actors, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri. He said that this is "what mainstream cinema was meant to be."

Anurag shared a bunch of posters and pictures from Dhadak 2. He lauded Shazia for "holding a mirror to us of what India really is". "In what is the most searing mainstream debut that I have seen in a very, very long time, @shaz.3.0 holds a mirror to us of what India really is outside of our bubble that we live in. Aided by terrific performances from @tripti_dimri, @siddhantchaturvedi, ...