Let’s just start with a prayer to all the people who said Dhurandhar is a propaganda movie! Dhurandhar : The Revenge has a 30 second clip of PM NaMo, giving his demonetization speech. Take that!
Our show was at 10:30 pm, but thanks to all the useless Ads, it started at 11:00 pm. Most of the audience was openly exasperated and complained loudly.
If you see full house at 10:30 pm, on a weekday, for a movie like Dhurandhar, you should know the audience is serious about it’s movie and not for fun. We came to watch our fearless Dhurandhar. I hope they refrain from wasting half an hour of our precious time.
Before anything else may divert you, let me put my two cents on the table, here goes the review.
Released On : 19th March 2026
Watched by QB on : 19th March 2026
Starring : Ranveer Singh, Arjun Rampal, R.Madhavan, Sanjay Dutt, Rakesh Bedi, Gaurav Gera, Yami Gautam and more
Run Time : 3 hrs 49 min
Directed By : G.O.A.T Aditya Dhar
Jaskirat Singh Rangi buys an AK-47 for his brutal rampage, (mind numbing action sequence by Ranveer Singh) killing 12 men of a high profile MLA family, which earns him a death sentence.
One detail I loved was the small town Jaskirat posing for a photo with his family. His body language shows his innocence, before he went on a killing rampage. The anguish and the change in Jaskirat seeps into the screen. We can feel his rage.
Enter Ajay Sanyal and Bansal, who recruit him into the Dhurandhar program. Jaskirat is now Hamza Ali Mazari, the babbar sher (king of beasts, the lion).
At the safe house in Afghanistan, Jaskirat burns his family photo, the last clue of his existence and new life ahead as Hamza.
Anyway, after the death of Rehman Dakait ( Akshay Khanna), the throne of Lyari is up for grabs! Uzair Baloch is nothing compared to Rehman. Arshad Pappu becomes powerful by default.
Hamza, who is on a mission to eliminate as many terrorists as possible makes a move and Arshad Pappu is killed by Uzair Baloch, (A brutal killing here, just like the one Rehman Dakait commits in middle of the street), which lands Uzair Baloch in jail and that’s where he stays till the end. (I wondered why Hamza went soft on Uzair, but there is a reason for keeping him alive!)
Here, Hamza Ali Mazari is crowned the new Sher – e – Baloch. (This song has a little less pep than the Foos Foos song from Dhurandhar)
With the new title as King of Lyari, Hamza gets the chance to meet Bade Saab, Dawood Ibrahim. (Whoever said Emran Hashmi was playing Dawood Ibrahim needs to be reprimanded.)
Bade Saab, lives in a palatial bungalow with wires connected to him, living almost like a vegetable, but he still has enough hatred in his veins for more terror attacks on India! He asks Hamza to prove himself worthy of Lyari throne, like his predecessors and involves him in a drug racket. (The drug addicted Punjab needs to thank Bade saab for its drug culture.)
At this point, Hamza comes close to blowing his cover, but thanks to the pick pocketer from Rae Bareli, Hamza is saved. But, SP Aslam (Sanjay Dutt) has his doubts about Hamza being an Indian spy and that seals the deal for him!
SP Aslam is eliminated. (One clean execution here!)
We too come to understand the fate of a spy, once Yalina (Sara Arjun) begins to doubt Hamza. Jaskirat ‘s days as Hamza are numbered.
Meanwhile, at Dubai, Hamza is given autonomy by Ajay Sanyal, to do as he pleases and all hell breaks loose. We see unknown men gunning down terrorists, terrorists suddenly dying from heart attacks and what not! (Salute to the unnamed and unknown masked men, who are serving the country in shadows)
Meanwhile, Omar, ASP, is after Hamza. He relies the information to Major Iqbal (Arjun Rampal), who is shocked and frustrated.
A long drawn fight ensues,between Major Iqbal and Hamza. I, particularly love the scene where Hamza brings out a bazooka, to fire at Major Iqbal. (It is almost as beautiful as Rambha ho ho , scene from Dhurandhar!) Epic!
Major Iqbal dies and Hamza is captured!
Let me stop the story at that. The rest needs to be watched onscreen.
What I loved :
Ranveer Singh as Hamza Ali Mazari. It is a role of a lifetime for him. When people talk about Ranveer Singh, it will always be the talking point, B.D and A.D.(Before Dhurandhar and After Dhurandhar!) He killed it, lived it, breathed it and no one can ever take that away from him.
Rakesh Bedi as the true blue politician, Arjun Rampal as the twisted army officer, Sanjay Dutt as the brash SP and R. Madhavan as the pukka patriotic security chief and Sara Arjun, as a hopeless wife and loyal mother of a child, too were good.
Finally, the gripping direction and screenplay needs special mention. Take a bow!
P.S :
1. Who even manages to make 2 movies of bombastic content, in a duration of one and half year? No one! For that alone, Aditya Dhar is a GOAT.
2. The run time in no way made the movie boring. I have the habit of checking audience reaction and frankly, no one was sleepy or bored even at 3:00 am in the morning, when the movie finally ended.
3. The music and background score are good, but I loved the ones from Dhurandhar than Dhurandhar: The Revenge.
4. Just so you know, the video clip of PM Narendra Modi brought cheers from audience, just like the ones we get when a super star makes a cameo in a movie, interesting!
Overall, a not-to-miss experience. Do watch it.