Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026) – Delivers, mostly

If you liked Dhurandhar (2025), you will love this second part. If you did not, this will not change your mind. I am generally sceptical about sequels, and with a running time of nearly four hours, I was not expecting much. But Director Aditya Dhar keeps you thoroughly entertained. There is more blood and more gruesome ways of killing in this part, so please use your discretion. Mangoidiots gives the film a Ripe.

This part opens with the backstory of how Jaskirat Singh became Hamza. The flashback is high-paced with no lengthy emotional drama, which I appreciated. The tragedy in Jaskirat’s life is revealed only through a courtroom dialogue. Any more of it and the film would have needed yet another part. The story then picks up from the killing of Karachi’s local don, Rehman Dakait, and follows whether Hamza completes his secret mission.

Sara Arjun has a small but important role as Hamza’s wife. Their son gets very little screen time, and I think that was a deliberate choice to keep the audience from forming an attachment that would have derailed the narrative. There are two major reveals, one in the middle and one at the climax. Both worked well for me.

R Madhavan’s role as Ajay Sanyal gets more coverage here and is well handled. Arjun Rampal as Major Iqbal of the ISI does his part well. But this film belongs entirely to Ranveer Singh. His hard work is visible in every frame, and this is yet another best from him.

My one wish is that this part had introduced new characters with greater emotional depth and character development. The background score and the songs played over action sequences worked really well. They made those scenes feel faster and more engaging than they perhaps were visually.

More than the first part, this one makes good use of real incidents, India’s demonetisation and the serial killings by mysterious bikers in Pakistan in recent years, to give the film a documentary feel. That certainly added to the halo around what is otherwise a familiar Bollywood gangster film, and a bloody one at that.