The Aditya Dhar directorial, Dhurandhar, is having a dream box-office run and has crossed the 900-crore mark in mere 19 days of its release. The Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Rampal and Ranveer Singh-starrer has received praise from audiences; however, Indian liberals are rattled.
Recently, YouTuber and propagandist Dhruv Rathee released a video criticising the film Dhurandhar and its director, Aditya Dhar. Now Dhar has indirectly responded to Rathee’s “well-made propaganda” remark.
Aditya Dhar reshared an Instagram story, which said, “A video maker tried to criticise it recently and got swept away by a wave of criticism against him. Dhurandhar is a craze today. A tsunami which will sweep away any other release in its path. A tsunami which will roll into 2026. It is not going to stop soon.”
Although Aditya Dhar has not made a direct comment on Dhruv Rathee’s video, the Dhurandhar director’s resharing of the said Instagram story is being seen as a response to Rathee’s criticism.
Notably, leftist propagandist Dhruv Rathee, in his video criticising Dhurandhar, had said, “Well-made propaganda is more dangerous. Films like The Taj Story and The Bengal Films were not dangerous, kyunki wo bakwaas films thi (because they were bad films). But Dhurandhar is an engaging film. It shows the real footage from the 26/11 attacks. The real audio recordings of conversations between the terrorists and their handlers have been used. It also uses real-life gangsters and cops based in Pakistan’s Lyari.”
Dhruv Rathee claimed that Aditya Dhar coalesced real events with fiction and passed it off as a “gospel truth.”
Notably, Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar is a larger-than-life spy thriller that unapologetically merges fact and fiction, drawing from real covert missions, local gangs in Lyari in Karachi, crime syndicates tied to the ISI, and the horrors India has suffered through Pakistan’s policy of “bleeding India with a thousand cuts.”
Ever since its release, Pakistan and its sympathisers in India, both used to consuming delusional and one-sided ‘Aman ki Asha’ content, are rattled. Before Dhruv Rathee, Islamo-leftist propaganda portal The Wire had published an article dismissing the sheer act of exposing brutal Pakistani Islamic terrorism as “rage-bait,” “bloodlust,” “venom,” and even “recruitment.”
