Dhurandhar reviews &box office -890 crores India,1300 WW. On netflix - Page 110

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Okay so this is movie review thread to be enjoyed by everyone, I understand the topic of the film, but some of the discussions on here are going a bit far and beyond the film, this thread is just for the films discussion.

If people want to talk about politics or religion then there are other areas on the forum where this can be discussed

I am a pakistani and a muslim and I didnt see anything in the film against the average pakistani population or against Muslims. Also, i don't hate India or Hindus, so lets make that clear, as I am seeing accusations of all Pakistanis hating Indians, and all Muslims hating hindus, which is simply not true no matter how many times people try to say it.

Anyway I'll leave it at that, going to continue talking about the movie now

Originally posted by: zara321

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this seems like a still from Part 2....look at his rings....wonder why they both are in ethnic wear though?

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Originally posted by: EkPaheli

I understand.

People abroad particularly think in a different manner. As an Indian, my views are coloured based on my experiences.

It’s curious how in the age of social media as well news can be suppressed, ignored, misinterpreted or purposely misrepresented based on the people behind it and their biases which also depend on their revenues.

As an Indian my views are based on none of the news reports but simply what we had to live through. One of the movie’s most impactful moments comes from the 26/11 scene. I am from Mumbai, have been born and raised here, lived here all my life and let me tell you, that scene was barely touched the gruesome reality of that day’s horror.

Commandos were purposely delayed from arriving to rescue hostages and by the time they did, the whole media was there to cover it as the world’s most morbid live horror show. They showed us a clip of a couple of transcripts but didn’t show the shooting at Leopold Cafe, at CST station, they didn’t include the mention of the rape of a woman who was assaulted because she was a Jew and later killed alongside her husband who happened to be a Rabbi. Their only survivor was their son barely a toddler.

The then CM of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh reached the site of the attacks with his son Ritiesh, an actor AND a director in tow within no time. The man trying to be our PM today, the current leader of opposition, was off partying in a few days as well as if the attack was no big deal. In a way it was and in a way it wasn’t. India saw regular bomb blasts in those years and the news of a couple of dozen deaths was so common in bomb blasts. This was by far their biggest attack on our soil but unfortunately not the last one. I almost lost my mom in one of those attacks nearly 2 decades ago.

We couldn’t be safe anywhere in our own homeland for no fault of ours. And that’s not a feeling that I wish upon anyone. It’s pretty ugly, uncomfortable and unfortunate.

We never knew when a day could be the one that’s our last while we were simply doing mundane things - going to work/school/home or stepping out for shopping groceries or a movie or outing with friends.

And we got a man who said he was proud of not responding brutally or violently against our perpetrators despite massive pressure as our prime minister of all things.

Worse, we were gonna get labelled as terrorists by the party in power based on our numbers. In 2011, an act was proposed in the parliament that never passed thankfully which intended to pin down the largest majority of people of this country as the defacto criminals in case of a mob attack, irrespective of the reasons behind the same, the tipping point, if I might call it that, and blame it on us simply because we have the most numbers in this country. Simply because we choose to still follow the faith of our ancestors that originated in this land rather than accept a faith of foreign origin or an offshoot of our own religion Hinduism be it as Jains, Buddhists or Sikhs. It was as if we were meant to be punished for simply existing and being ourselves, respecting our past and our ancestors.

Of course later we would find out how a terrorist organisation did have a plan mapped out for 2047 to convert this whole land into their faith. And along with that plan would be found rate cards to convert girls from various Hindu, Sikh, Jains, Buddhists, tribals and even Christian communities. Imagine being commodified in your own land for your gender, for your faith, for your existence without any fault of yours and having no awareness whatsoever regarding it as well.

So while people who don’t understand these complexities because they’ve no clue about what we’ve been dealing with for ages may have their opinions based on whatever they think, know and therefore belive. As Indians living in India, we are clear and aware of our lived realities in this country and hence unapologetically ourselves regardless of what the world has to say… because as the movie puts it in the very beginning, we are the people who have been raised on the followings of Gita.

Hence despite what might appear as propaganda or political manipulation or even some supposed conspiracy, we are loving and supporting this movie so strongly. It’s because a movie has finally been bold and brave enough to depict our enemies for what they are, and states unapologetically what it is we must do to them if we wish to survive.

Commenting on IF after a long long time just to applaud this particular write up. Wonderfully summed up

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Originally posted by: Flame.

Commenting on IF after a long long time just to applaud this particular write up. Wonderfully summed up

Thank you ☺️

The songs are dominating the music streaming apps!

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