Seated in his palatial Andheri office, Anil Sharma smiles from ear to ear. Congratulatory messages from mediapersons have been greeting him since a few hours now as his latest film, Gadar 2, crossed the coveted Rs 500-crore mark. 

The Sunny Deol-starrer  is now only the second film to achieve this feat, with its predecessor, Pathaan, also hitting the mark, this year itself. Drawing parallels between the two films is hence, only inevitable. But, Sharma doesn’t entertain questions on the comparisons. “The industry must walk together,” he says, adding, “When the makers of Barbie and Oppenheimer praised each other, why shouldn’t we do the same? I was happy to hear that Shah Rukh [Khan] loved our film. He has a massy taste. Similarly, I knew that Pathaan would be a hit as soon as I saw the trailer.”