Review: ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ is more of everything – gore, cheerleading, propaganda
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The only subtle thing about Aditya Dhar’s follow-up to his monster hit Dhurandhar (2025) is its title. Dhurandhar: The Revenge doesn’t quite capture what Dhar sets out to do. In a movie seething with demonic rage and torture porn, “The Revenge” turns out to be a colossal understatement.
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Ranveer Singh returns as the long-haired, wide-chested and ample-bottomed Indian undercover agent Hamza, who’s managed to pass off as a Balochi in Karachi, kill the gangster Rehman Dakait (Akshaye Khanna) and marry Yaleena (Sara Arjun), the daughter of the weaselly politician Jameel (Rakesh Bedi). Hamza is now both family man and the lord of Lyari, Rehman’s headquarters in Karachi.
Hamza is actually Jaskirat, a Sikh from Pathankot who slaughters the people who had wronged his family. Although Jaskirat hasn’t yet joined the Indian Army as he would have liked to, there is an unexplained military precision to the way in which he scalps his adversaries.
He’s already ready for the covert operation that intelligence chief Ajay Sanyal (R Madhavan) has in mind. Ajay moulds Jaskirat into a weapon of destruction that will gut Pakistan from within.
Hamza’s mission is to smash the nexus between the Karachi gangs, the Pakistani spy agency ISI and terrorists. Having worked his way into the inner circle of...