Dhurandhar, starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, is 2025's biggest Indian hit. However, the spy thriller set in a gangsterism-ridden place in Pakistan has been criticized by some commentators for its ridiculous plot points.
In the film, Pakistan's ISI depends on the Karachi underworld to secure dangerous weapons to carry out the Mumbai 26/11 attacks. As per columnist Sekhar Gupta, the ISI never needed to rely on the underworld in Pakistan for something as crucial as ammunition. The ISI was behind the deadly Bombay blasts of 1993. At that time, the Maharashtra police recovered 3.5 kgs of RDX and 71 AK47s in Bombay. All of this was supplied to terrorists and their sympathizers by the ISI. Would the ISI have needed the Karachi gangsters for the 26/11 attacks 15 years later?
Furthermore, Sekhar Gupta writes that the very backdrop of Dhurandhar should have been different. "Plots like the IC-814 hijack, Parliament attack and 26/11 were planned in the mosques and seminaries of Muridke and Bahawalpur and not in the sort of religiously anodyne hard-drinking ‘adda’ of a Lyari gangster, least of all a leader of the Baloch. Would the ISI even trust a Baloch Sardar?"
Dhurandhar, directed by Aditya Dhar, is a fictional story based on real-live individuals and incidents.
