No blog about 2025 movies would be complete without Dhurandhar (Hindi). This is the movie that cannot seem to stop its victory run at theaters, and largely deservedly so, as this recasts the Indo-Pakistani spy thriller from a world of honey traps and hyperbole to gritty execution (no pun intended) – largely on the mean streets of Karachi. Hamza Ali (a buffed up Ranveer Singh) is a faceless Baloch, rescued from hoodlums who finds his way into the ranks of the formidable Rehman Dakait (Akshaye Khanna). And these are just two of the memorable characters in a movie that includes the formidable SP Choudhury Aslam (Sanjay Dutt), Major Iqbal (Arjun Rampal), Yalina (Sara Arjun), and the aggrieved Ajit Sanyal/ Doval (R Madhavan) who set it all in motion. Dhurandhar has multiple dimensions – the high stakes gangster totem pole in Karachi, the army ISI politicians and organized gangsters in cahoots in Pakistan, and that not all incursions can be stopped but revenge can present its opportunities nonetheless. I would suggest watching this movie for sure – but you already have haven’t you now
