Dhurandhar Movie Reaction Update: It is a monumental, epic film, says Shobhaa De
Author and columnist Shobhaa De took to share a video review of Dhurandhar. In the video, Shobhaa said, "I've come back after watching Dhurandhar, and this is an off-the-cuff review - absolutely without any kind of narrative, script, nothing. Just spontaneous responses to a film. I don't mind watching it all over again. Yes, three and a half hours of it. I didn't want to miss a moment. Honestly, I do not understand what the controversy is about - the right wing and the left wing. Why can't you just watch a movie for what it is, a movie, and remember the effort that goes into making a monumental, epic film of this kind? Forget all that. Forget the politics of it. It's utter nonsense - manipulative and awful. If there are critics who are losing their jobs over this, and if there are people who want to send a death squad to my door, I really don't care. I watched it as a viewer with absolutely zero political bias. It's not about politics. It's about a story - perhaps fictionalised. The person on whose life it is based must have been a super, super, super-duper hero. I will not name the person, but let me tell you just this much - it is brilliant. It is epic."
She went on to praise the cast and director of Dhurandhar. She said, "As Ranveer says - come on, come on - the restraint, how controlled. When he could so easily have strutted, done the whole swag thing, put in a song for himself, done some hook step, romanced the girl. Frankly, I didn't much care for the girl. That's my very personal opinion. She was strategically important, but not really a romantic, romantic interest, Ranveer, I thought, chewed up the entire film. I liked Akshaye a lot. I can't say I went nuts over his performance. He is a superb actor, but because of the overkill - that one song, that one step and all of that - maybe I expected much more than what I actually got. The star of the film - yes, the director, of course, because without his vision, there'd be no film. But also the music, it is nuts and insane...orchestrated, choreographed violence set to Bhangra beats, operatic scores, favourite old qawwalis and love songs - and even Monica, Oh My Darling. Yes, I loved Dhurandhar. Go watch it."