The first installment Dhurandhar’s historic run as the highest-grossing Bollywood film, this sequel – Dhurandhar – The Revenge with an expansive 3-hour and 49-minute runtime, it sets a new benchmark for mainstream Indian cinema. The film features superior storytelling and utilizes remixed classic Bollywood tracks to build tension, even during high-octane action sequences. Additionally, it offers stunning visuals of scenic Afghanistan, smooth narration, a creative background score, and perfectly integrated musical rehashes.
Dhurandhar The Revenge begins with the Chapter of Burnt memory of how Jaskirat Singh Rangi (Ranveer Singh) a brilliant army aspirant squanders his career to defend the injustice meted out to his father and the elder sister. The family is a victim of injustice with the kidnapping of his sisters and killing his father for land dispute.
While Jaskirat had gone for military training, in his absence the local politician grabbed his family’s land. On his return this promising soldier is forced to take revenge of the atrocities on all the family members by the gangsters and the local politician.
The first revenge action scene, so brilliantly executed amid the rehashed version of Pyaar Marne Wale, Duniya se na darne wals endorses the mind blowing action and thrills that would be experienced for the rest of the film.
There is a dialogue “Dard ko hausale ka engine chahiye… badla lene ke liye” that surmises the reaction of this hot blooded youth whose father and grandfather had served the motherland throughout their lives. This explains how the brilliant, young and sharp Jaskirat Singh Rangi who had undergone army training, unfortunately was termed as a criminal in the court of law.
Dhurandhar the revenge is longer than it’s prequel, but the director has skillfully blended the background music and effectively used to create tensions moments of tension, joy and excitement during various intervals.
While it’s prequel established incidents and events spread over the year, Dhurandhar- The revenge appears more engrossing, despite it’s length. It is a total cinematic phenomenon, that redefines the viewer experience.
Here are some of the noteworthy scenes – Jaskirat’s outburst during his ‘revenge’ in the first chapter , his emotional outburst while finally tracking his sister, Madhavan’s frequent portrayal as Ajay Sanyal, Director of IB, Ranveer’s fightback and revenge with Major Iqbal right upto blasting of Kerosene tanks in the Pakistani train yard.
Though we can call it cinematic liberty, but there is a very important sequence where Major Iqbal and Javed Khanani all set to release 60,000 crores of Indian fake currency in India, but this plot backfires due to the sudden ‘Demonitisation’ of high value notes signifies the reason behind this scam. It fits into the events … yet let it be left as a cinematic liberty.
What makes this film unique, not only it’s different, is that the depiction of impulsive reactions, emotions – controlled and even the outbursts. It’s gory action and the no holds barred never seen action sequences of revenge, set it apart. Apart not only from the mediocre Bollywood action movies, it would rank even higher than most of the Hollywood action flicks.
Proving that the original was no mere fluke, this sequel elevates the action and drama to new heights. Dhurandhar: The Revenge redefines the Bollywood cinematic landscape.
Other set of striking scenes are the recruitment of Jihadis in Pakistan’s Major Iqbal and vice-versa the training of the military cadets showing one to one fights and then the deep water endurance of the probable cadets.
Cementing his status as the premier leading man of this new cinematic era, Ranveer Singh returns in a career-defining performance – with his ferociously raw avatar as Hamza Ali Mazari, the undercover alias of operative Jaskirat Singh Rangi, taking his mission deep into the criminal syndicates of Karachi. Just watch him emote helplessness while camoflaguing his emotions after killing the juice shop owner during a get-together at his palatial house.
Ranveer is supported by a powerhouse ensemble including R. Madhavan, who is realistic and impressive as Ajay Sanyal. There is also the chillingly villainous Arjun Rampal as Major Iqbal and Gaurav Gera as the juice shop owner – both of them are in their career best phase. Among the veterans it is Rakesh Bedi as the wily politician in Lyari and Sanjay Dutt as SP, the film promises a “full-night cinematic experience” that blends high-octane action with a dark, bloodier narrative.
– Paresh B Mehta
Ranveer Singh as Hamza Ali Mazari / Jaskirat Singh Rangi
Arjun Rampal as Major Iqbal, ISI (based on Ilyas Kashmiri and Major Iqbal)
Sanjay Dutt as SP Chaudhary Aslam, Sindh Police (LTF)
R. Madhavan as Ajay Sanyal, Director of IB (based on Ajit Doval)
Sara Arjun as Yalina Jamali, Jameel’s daughter and Hamza’s wife
Rakesh Bedi as Jameel Jamali, a senior politician of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Akshaye Khanna as Rehman Dakait in flashback appearance
Yami Gautam in cameo appearance
Manav Gohil as Sushant Bansal, Deputy Director of the IB
Gaurav Gera as Mohammed Aalam, a juice shop owner in Lyari and Hamza’s handler
Danish Pandor as Uzair Baloch, leader of the Baloch gang
Raj Zutshi as General Shamshad Khan
Saumya Tandon as Ulfat, Rehman’s widow
Bimal Oberoi as Shirani, leader of the Baloch United Force (BUF)
Madhurjeet Sarghi as Prabhneet Singh
Mustafa Ahmed as Rizwan Shah
Udaybir Sandhu as Gurbaaz “Pinda” Singh
Gitikka Ganju Dhar as Shabnam, Jameel’s wife and Yalina’s mother
Aditya Uppal as ASP Omar Haider, LTF
Vikram Bhambri as Shakeel Commando
Ashwin Dhar as Arshad Pappu, leader of the Pathan gang
Abhay Arora as Yasir Arafat
Danish Iqbal as Dawood Ibrahim
Ankit Sagar as Javed Khanani, co-founder of Khanani & Kalia International
Mushtaq Naika as Altaf Khanani (Javed’s twin-brother)
Vinod Tharani as Azam Cheema
Faiz Khan as Sajid Mir
Akash Khurana as Devarat Kapoor, Minister of External Affairs
Ali Raza Namdar as K. S. Bhullar, Special Secretary of R&AW
Himanshu Gokhani as DGP Prashant Kumar, Uttar Pradesh Police
Ashish Duggal as MLA SukhwinderCredits of Dhurandhar: The Revenge –
Written & Directed by Aditya Dhar
Additional screenplay – Ojas Gautam, Shivkumar V. Panicker
Produced by – Aditya Dhar, Jyoti Deshpande, Lokesh Dhar
Cinematography – Vikash Nowlakha
Edited by Shivkumar V. Panicker
Music by Shashwat Sachdev
Production companies – Jio Studios, B62 Studios
