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Dhurandhar success made Aditya Dhar unpopular. Wife Yami Gautam is also being snubbed

Dhurandhar was nominated in 28 categories at an award function but didn't win anything.

How many of us are holding our breaths for DHU-RAN-DHAR: The Revenge? Count me in. Even though, after watching the trailer drop, I didn’t faint with excitement. For one, I needed a translation for the tagline—honsla (Courage), eendhan (Fuel) and badla (Revenge). Sounds like a headline for an Indian Army recruitment poster. A bit too obvious. 

Then came the quick cuts: thundering, melodramatic dialogues and maar-peet galore. But where was the menace? The all-essential subversion? Sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Instead, it was all just plain gore and gore and more gore. 

Hamza Ali’s (played by Ranveer Singh) most prized asset (his thick, glossy mane of hair) in Part 1 of Dhurandhar (2025) is missing in Part 2. While Sanjay Dutt’s deadly SP Chaudhary Aslam Khan’s trademark pristine white Pathan suit remains unblotched, unstained, despite all the khoon being splashed around by the bucketful. 

Symbolism a la Dhar? A tainted, dreaded, ruthless villain clad in spotless “Surf white” as he goes about his business, blowing off heads on a busy street. Nice touch. Daag Achhe Hain, after all. Dirt is good, as the iconic Surf Excel tagline stated back in 2005.

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Let the jingoism begin

Then comes the stone-faced Doval (errr…R Madhavan), puffing away and glaring balefully at his quaking, brainless juniors. Golden-tooth Major Iqbal (Arjun Rampal) is around too, flashing his signature accessory (the soney ka tooth),as he commands the ISI goons to wreak havoc in India. 

Frankly, the only scene in the much-awaited trailer that grabbed my attention was the last one. Jameel Jamali (Rakesh Bedi), the oily politician, visits Zardari on the lawns of the palatial presidential grounds and compliments the President of Pakistan on his “white buttocks”—bataks (ducks), of course. Great timing. A sly line.

Now, for the main show.

Mark your calendars, folks – 19 March, it is.  

With luck, Ranveer Singh may be seen performing an item song that beats both—Akshaye Khanna’s viral pseudo-Baloch dance, and Ayesha Khan-Krystal D’Souza’s sizzling ‘Shararat’ routine—clubbed together. After a visit to a hair spa, of course. 

We need more of that slithery Mick Jagger bad-boy vibe, too. Bring on the beast mode, Lyari ka Badshah. Audiences are done with the old Dhurandhar‘s ‘Rambha Ho Ho Ho.’ Let the jingoism begin—but make sure the........

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