Dhurandhar The Revenge review: Power, politics and Ranveer Singh who devours it all

Dhurandhar: The Revenge expands, sharpens, and builds on its predecessor. What the first film hinted at, this one executes with intent: more violence, more scale, more emotional rupture, and a far deeper obsession with revenge.

Aditya Dhar hands the film almost entirely to Ranveer Singh's Hamza Ali Mazari, and makes a visibly decisive choice. This is no longer just a story about geopolitics or espionage; it becomes a character study disguised as a war film. Hamza's journey, from Jaskirat Singh Rangi, an idealistic young soldier from Punjab, to Lyari's feared king, and back to being India's Jassi, forms the emotional strength of the film. It is this oscillation between identities that gives the film its rare, unsettling depth.

Dhar pushes his own cinematic vocabulary further here. If the first film was about infiltration, this one is about annihilation - systematic, relentless, almost clinical. Scene by scene, the film dissects the machinery of terror, with Hamza at its centre, driving through every nerve that connects Pakistan's terror networks to India. It is aggressive storytelling, but it never loses control.