India, June 1 -- The current trend in Hindi cinema sees intense romances or films with hypermasculine, alpha male protagonists pull in the biggest crowds at the box office, as seen by the success of films like Dhurandhar series, Animal (2023) and Saiyaara (2025). Amid this, Vedang Raina is set to star in filmmaker Imtiaz Ali's epic romance Main Vaapas Aaunga.

Ask the actor if the current trend gives his film an upper hand and he says, "Something works because the audience accepts it regardless of what is working in reality apart from that film. And then you think it's the genre that is working. If the film is good, the genre works, not the other way round." Paired opposite Sharvari in the romantic film, the film sees Vedang Raina play a ...