The shadowy figure known only as "Bade Sahab" is the central, unseen tormentor of the film Dhurandhar. He is the ultimate puppet master who connects the street-level drug trade of Karachi to the highest echelons of state-sponsored terror. The puzzle of his identity is brilliantly complicated by the film’s narrative structure, which suggests a constant,…
Theatres are currently alight with debate over Dhurandhar’s unflinching portrayal of Pakistan's underworld. Yet, amidst the on-screen action, the movie drops a geopolitical bombshell: the assertion that the high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) flooding the Indian economy could only have been produced with inside help—specifically, by someone in India providing the blueprint of the…
The hysterical backlash against Dhurandhar has nothing to do with "politics" or even "Pakistan-bashing." It's a full-blown cultural trauma for a particular generation of commentators—the ones personified by the classic 'Arfa Khanum' archetype. She's not critiquing a movie. She's mourning. Mourning the sudden, violent death of the comforting moral universe that Bollywood spent decades constructing,…
[Spoiler Alert - The post has spoilers from the movie. If you would like the read the review without the spoilers, here is one - Dhurandhar—The 3.5-Hour Epic That is Filling Theaters in the UK: A Non-Spoiler Review] Why has the film Dhurandhar generated such an unprecedented hue and cry? The reaction is a major cinematic…
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