Dhurandhar Is India’s Overdue Entry Into the Business of National Myth
This is the context in which Dhurandhar arrives—and it is the context its critics refuse to acknowledge. Aditya Dhar’s two-part spy thriller, in which a fictional RAW agent infiltrates Karachi’s underworld across a decade of India-Pakistan conflict, referencing the IC-814 hijacking, the Parliament attack, and 26/11, has now grossed over thirteen hundred crore rupees in its first instalment and shattered records with Part 2 opening at a hundred crore on day one. Audiences gave Part 1 a ninety-six per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And the critical establishment—that narrow, English-language guild of aesthetic commissars—has pronounced it “jingoistic,” “propaganda masquerading as cinema,” and guilty of the apparently unforgivable sin of “freely mixing truth with fiction.”
Read more at: https://swarajyamag.com/commentary/dhurandhar-is-indias-overdue-entry-into-the-business-of-national-myth
- 25 Mar 2026
- WerIndia
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