“Dhadak 2 Director Shazia Iqbal Who Spoilt Pariyerum Perumal Calls Dhurandhar “A Sinister Film” ”, The Commune, February 03, 2026
“It’s almost amusing how a section of Bollywood can’t resist clutching their pearls every time a film dares to celebrate India’s national security establishment. Shazia Iqbal, the filmmaker who made a mess out of Periyerum Perumal through her Dhadak 2, has now decided to label Dhurandhar a “sinister” film that “incites hate and violence.”
Her Instagram sermon (without naming the film) is the latest reminder of how easy it has become for the privileged “woke” club to equate patriotism with bigotry and national pride with propaganda.
For starters, Dhurandhar isn’t a film about hate, it’s a film about resolve. About the price India pays to defend its sovereignty against cross-border terrorism. When a movie portrays Indian spies dismantling terror outfits, it isn’t “inciting violence”; it’s reflecting the reality of what countless men and women in uniform face daily. But for filmmakers like Iqbal, who romanticize rebellion and victimhood, such portrayal is apparently too “sinister” to digest……”
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