If you're at home, sure, you can pause it whenever. But even then it'd be nice to have a point where the movie explicitly pauses and says "hey things are about to get crazy, go pee".
Most Indian regional language and Bollywood Hindi films (even the modern ones) run around 2h30m to 2h40m. The older films were even longer.
RRR, the Indian film that captured a lot of viewership around the globe had a runtime of 3h2m.
Most screenwriters and filmmakers in India design around the Interval-block to place a major plot-point just before the interval card is shown.
It is funny that recent Hollywood movies don't come with that. And even when a film is 2h+ long. Indian movie theatres just forcibly introduce a break in Hollywood films so that they can send people to the concession stands and restrooms. Sometimes, this happens mid-dialogue it is funny (and irritating at times).
Is this still the case? It's been probably over 10 years since I saw a movie in an Indian theater, so my memory is hazy.
Recent films that I can remember: John Wick 4, Top Gun: Maverick, NOPE.
All of them had the forced break.
It was a cultural adjustment for me with American theaters and no intermissions, even for the very long films. Funnily enough, since I went to a couple of Broadway shows before the movie theater, I was primed to expect an intermission in the movie theater as well, at least for some movies. What I do note is that the audience is consequently more prone to walk out to restrooms and concession stands at any time during the movie, which can be annoying.