Dhurandhar (2025)
Original title: धुरंधर
Dhurandhar is a 2025 Hindi-language action movie directed by Aditya Dhar, with a running time of 3h 32m. It stars Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna and R. Madhavan.
A stranger walks into Karachi carrying no past anyone can trace, and starts climbing. Aditya Dhar builds his spy thriller around an undercover Indian operative who earns his place inside the city's underworld, then works to pull the ISI-and-crime machinery apart from within. Ranveer Singh leads, with Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, and Arjun Rampal filling out the board of handlers, bosses, and marks. The tone stays heavy and violent, more grim procedure than glamour. As the first half of a duology, it treats deep cover as a slow erasure of the man doing the covering.
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What is Dhurandhar about?
A stranger walks into Karachi carrying no past anyone can trace, and starts climbing. Aditya Dhar builds his spy thriller around an undercover Indian operative who earns his place inside the city's underworld, then works to pull the ISI-and-crime machinery apart from within. Ranveer Singh leads, with Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, and Arjun Rampal filling out the board of handlers, bosses, and marks. The tone stays heavy and violent, more grim procedure than glamour. As the first half of a duology, it treats deep cover as a slow erasure of the man doing the covering.
When was Dhurandhar released?
Dhurandhar was released on 5 December 2025.
How long is Dhurandhar?
Dhurandhar runs 3h 32m.
Who made Dhurandhar?
Dhurandhar was directed by Aditya Dhar.
Where can I watch Dhurandhar?
Dhurandhar is available on Netflix.
Where to watch Dhurandhar
Stream: Netflix
Cast
- Ranveer Singh as Hamza Ali Mazari / Jaskirat Singh Rangi
- Akshaye Khanna as Rehman Dakait
- R. Madhavan as Ajay Sanyal
- Arjun Rampal as Major Iqbal
- Sanjay Dutt as SP Chaudhary Aslam
- Sara Arjun as Yalina Jamali
- Rakesh Bedi as Jameel Jamali
- Danish Pandor as Uzair Baloch
- Gaurav Gera as Mohammad Aalam
- Naveen Kaushik as Donga
- Saumya Tandon as Ulfat
- Manav Gohil as Sushant Bansal
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A few thoughts on Dhurandhar
The Family Man makes the natural next stop, trading Karachi for a Mumbai analyst whose spycraft keeps colliding with ordinary family life. Players who want to feel the paranoia firsthand should try Metal Gear Solid, where staying hidden and reading every guard is the entire game rather than a backdrop.
Undercover operatives who become the very thing they infiltrate
Dhurandhar follows an Indian operative who spends years passing as one of Karachi's own, and the strain of that performance becomes the film's real subject. Solid Snake's missions in Metal Gear Solid run on the same tradecraft, The Family Man's intelligence officer juggles an identical double life at home, and the real spy behind Matahari paid for her cover the same way Dhurandhar: The Revenge keeps paying it.
Crime sagas that show the underworld from the inside
Dhurandhar spends its runtime inside the machinery it's trying to dismantle, watching gang bosses and handlers up close rather than from outside. The Godfather does the same with an American crime family, Gangs of Wasseypur runs the same intimacy through Indian gang warfare, The Long Good Friday watches a London boss lose his grip from within, and Rise of the Footsoldier and Al Capone map real criminal hierarchies as closely.
Grim, violence-first thrillers where duty curdles into brutality
Dhurandhar stays heavy and violent by design, treating deep cover as a slow erasure rather than a glamorous disguise. God Is a Bullet pushes a similar true-crime brutality without flinching, Rampage: Capital Punishment and Savaged turn vigilante justice into something ugly and exhausting, Until Death strips a lawman down to pure survival instinct, and Replicant sends a soldier hunting a killer who mirrors him too closely.