It’s a movie of the current moment, which isn’t exactly a comfort.

While the sequel amps up action and visual spectacle, it misses the tighter storytelling that made the first film a blockbuster.

At almost four hours, Dhar’s Dhurandhar sequel is bloated and gratuitously violent, and egregiously careless in its rampant nationalist propaganda.

If you take out the addictive background score, the mise-en-scene runs the risk of getting reduced to twenty ways to maim or decapitate the enemy... and the motive seems to justify the government’s controversial policy decisions...