Dhurandhar: The Revenge
- Director
- Aditya Dhar
- Studio
- B62 Studios
- Release Date
- 19 March 2026
- Running Time
- 229 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹252.50 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹1852.10 Cr
Cast
Review
Rohit Shetty's *Dhurandhar: The Revenge* arrives as an exercise in cinematic maximalism—a film that swings for the fences with impressive technical ambition and largely succeeds in delivering the visceral thrills audiences expect from a big-budget action spectacle. The production values are genuinely striking, the lead actor brings enough charisma to anchor the extended runtime, and the second act particularly benefits from tighter plotting and well-timed narrative turns that generate authentic momentum. These are real accomplishments that deserve acknowledgment, and it's clear considerable craft went into the action sequences themselves.
Yet the film struggles with an identity crisis that undermines its strengths. In its eagerness to amplify everything—scale, messaging, ideological rhetoric—Shetty has sacrificed the emotional scaffolding that made the franchise's earlier installments resonate beyond their action set pieces. Character development flattens into service of political messaging, and what might have been a more sophisticated exploration of its themes instead settles for blunt-force delivery. The result is a film perpetually torn between functioning as a kinetic thriller and operating as a political statement, rarely achieving full coherence in either register. Those seeking uncompromising patriotic spectacle will find their evening well-spent; those hoping for narrative complexity beneath the explosions will recognize the missed opportunities.
Rating: 6/10
Storyline
So basically, this guy Jaskirat Singh Rangi has this absolutely tragic backstory where his family gets destroyed by a corrupt politician back in 2000. His dad is killed, his sister is brutally murdered, and his younger sister gets kidnapped. When he comes back home, he goes full revenge mode with weapons he's gotten from some mafia connections, takes down the guy responsible, and manages to rescue his sister. But of course, he gets caught and sentenced to death for it.
Here's where it gets wild though—while he's in prison, some intelligence officials approach him with a crazy deal. They basically turn him into a secret agent and give him a new identity as Hamza Ali Mazari. They send him undercover to infiltrate terrorist networks in Pakistan, and he ends up in this dangerous place called Lyari in Karachi where all these gang wars are happening. The guy becomes a total mastermind, playing different criminal factions against each other to increase his own power and complete whatever mission the government has given him.
By 2009, this undercover operation has gotten him so deep into the criminal underworld that he's caught the attention of some seriously dangerous people, including one of India's most wanted crime bosses. At this point, you don't really know whose side he's actually on anymore or what he's really trying to accomplish with all these moves he's making in the Pakistani underworld.
