Dhurandhar Movie Review
on Dec 5, 2025
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sara Arjun, R. Madhavan, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, Rakesh Bedi
Crew:
Cinematography by Vikash Nowlakha
Editing by Shivkumar V. Panicker
Music by Shashwat Sachdev
Written & Directed by Aditya Dhar
Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Lokesh Dhar, Aditya Dhar
Ranveer Singh has been struggling in recent times with most his films failing at the box office. Now, he is looking to make a big comeback with Dhurandhar, an espionage thriller. The movie is directed by Aditya Dhar, who made a huge name for himself with URI: Surgical Strikes. Being the longest film in 25 years in Hindi, and a promised second part, Dhurandhar released today. Let's discuss about the film in detail.
Plot:
IB Chief Ajay Sanyal (R. Madhavan) is hurt with Kandahar Hijack and Indian Parliament Attacks. He foils a plan called Dhurandhar to attack terrorist cells in Pakistan through infilteration. While the plan is far-fetched and long term, he believes that training a person who is committed and has nothing to lose, can yield best results. He deploys Hamza Ali Mazari (Ranveer Singh) into Lyari town of Pakistan to end the gangs who produce ammunition and weapons for terrorists. Hamza infilterates into the gang of Rehman Dakait (Akshaye Khanna) as a Baloch. Rehman is renowned for being a messaiah for Baloch community and he specializes in building fake weaponery at a lower cost.
He is warring with his father Babu Dakait (Asif Ali Haider Khan) for taking over Lyari town. Finally, he succeeds as Hamza enters into his gang after saving his younger son while his elder son dies in the attack. ISI Major Iqbal (Arjun Rampal) needs weapons from Rehman but local politician Jameel Jamali (Rakesh Bedi) deploys SP Chaudhary Aslam (Sanjay Dutt) who hates Balcohs, to stop Rehman's popularity. Meanwhile, Hamza falls in love with teenage daughter of Jameel, Yalina Jamali (Sara Arjun). What happens next? Where does all lead to? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Ranveer Singh is good in his role as Hamza and he needed to perform as a man with no emotion in many scenes to hide his trueself. While he is good in many scenes, he is not as sensational as he normally is in such roles. He did shine in climax portions with his physicality. Akshaye Khanna shines as an actor throughout. This first part belongs to him completely as it is his character which becomes ladder to Ranveer to explode in second part. Madhavan, Sanjay Dutt, Sara Arjun and Arjun Rampal are used well but their characters do not really register.
Writing by Aditya Dhar is very in-depth like a documentary trying to get every detail right and fit it into the narrative. This gives rise to indulgence as well as he keeps pushing the screenplay with over-detailing. When the troupes are laid out and easy to understand where everything is leading to, normally, people expect those scenes to be glossed over and interesting aspects are brought in forefront. Aditya tries to create an in-detail account alike Martin Scorcese in the gang war.
While you can guess the next scene and next element, he still tries to keep it engaging enough with his strong execution. Still, it feels overtly long, too detailed and confusing yet times as it deals too much into Pakistan politics which is not an easy subject to understand. The jumps in timeline and various scenes are choronologically needed but at the same time they fail to give us that personal connect that Raazi, D-day kind of films manage with their lead characters.
The production values, technical standards, production design, cinematography, location scouting, make-up all work in-tandem but the writing and indulgence to keep the narrative one-sided and not grounded makes it too long to watch. Scorsese elements with gang wars and Quentin Tarantino style high voltage gore action doesn't mix perfectly. The editing needed to be even more sharp as scenes are left to play too much at times. Narration also feels after a point as the highs and lows are predictable.
Overall, movie has a lot going in its favor but falls flat in its ambition to give scope to all the elements rather than those that can really stick in the narrative like Madras Cafe. Could have been a interesting film with one compact and powerful narrative which seems like dragged too much into two parts. A watchable film yet too lengthy.
Bottomline:
Writer-Director got over indulgent into the narrative and dragged it too much.
Rating: 2.75/5
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