The extreme violence in the first part left us so numb, that nothing in the second — not even the most vicious ploy which ends with a limbless body being blown up in smithereens, or even a severed head being kicked — can shock us.

You cannot separate a film’s politics from its craft—you cannot separate your own politics from your opinion. Dhurandhar is vile propaganda whose influence will spread beyond even its target audience of unemployed youth and WhatsApp uncles.

Dhurandhar leaves a pretty dirty taste in the mouth.

Aditya Dhar has emerged as a dhurandhar, an expert who can soft pedal nationalist propaganda with aesthetic execution. After Uri and Article 370, here he turns a potential OTT series into a 212-minute unyielding character study of ‘enemies’.