Opinion | 1971 Revisited: ‘Dhurandhar 2’ And The Genocide The World Chose To Ignore

Brigadier Jahangir in ‘Dhurandhar 2’, in his own despicable way, reveals what many did not know about the awful prelude to the 1971 war perpetrated by Pakistan

A premier hospital in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, one summer afternoon in 2008. A woman on a personal quest of discovery. Me. I was born in Holy Family Hospital in October 1965, three weeks after the end of the India-Pakistan war, so it was recorded there somewhere. As the daughter of the then Indian deputy high commissioner in East Pakistan, my birth was also registered and certified at the high commission, but I wanted to see the hospital’s register…

But first, a flash forward. One of the most chilling scenes in Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge is an interaction between Major Iqbal, the Pakistani ISI mastermind behind many attacks on India, and his even more reprehensible father, Brigadier Jahangir. The old man, partly paralysed and totally bitter, castigates his son for being ineffectual in furthering Pakistan’s agenda of destroying India and cites his own record of rape and brutality in East Pakistan as the way to go.

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Berating Iqbal for “only" producing a daughter, Jahangir proudly asserts that he raped 1,000 women in East Pakistan, both Muslim and Hindu, presumably, and thus must have thousands of sons in today’s Bangladesh. He was, of course, alluding to one of the most under-reported rapes and genocides in........

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