Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has praised Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar. While Kashyap said that he did not like a couple of dialogues in the film, he heaped praises on Dhar and his film.
Kashyap called Dhar a top-notch filmmaker and wrote on Letterboxd, “A spy can not be a spy if he doesn’t have hate and angst against the enemy state. A soldier also cannot be soldier if He doesn’t have angst against the enemy state. On those two counts I have no issues. I have two sequences that I have a problem with. Madhavan saying – ‘Ek din aisa ayega jab jo desh ke bare me koi sochega’ and another in the end when Ranveer says ‘Ye naya India hai’. Take those two aside it’s a good film. In fact a brilliant film that entirely set in pakistan. (sic)”
He continued, “I have known Aditya Dhar since his national award film Boond. It’s his politics. Genuine politics. Agree or disagree with it. Man is honest. Not an opportunist like others. all his films are about Kashmir. He is a Kashmiri pandit who has suffered. Either you argue with him or let him be. Filmmaking is top notch. If you love The hurt locker, zero dark thirty or house of dynamite. They are Oscar winning propaganda films about the USA. I ignored the two propaganda dialogues and loved the filmmaking and stubbornness of the film maker. And Ranveer Singh being my favourite performance. So secure. If I as a filmmaker have to argue about the politics of it, I will call Dhar. But significant film. (sic)”
The film stars Ranveer Singh in the lead, alongside Akshaye Khanna, R Madhavan, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, Sara Arjun and Rakesh Bedi, among others. Designed as a large-scale espionage thriller, the film traces covert intelligence operations set against intelligence operations inspired by real events. Its second part will be released in theatres on March 19.
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