Ajay Sanyal frees the Kandahar hostages and swallows the hijackers' taunts
Sanyal concedes three prisoners and a ransom, tells the passengers they are going home, then stands silent while a hijacker mocks India.
Film · 2025
Dhurandhar
In the early 2000s, an undercover operative infiltrates Karachi's underworld, breaking into its inner circle to dismantle a violent nexus from within.
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Characters
All moments
28 in story order · 1h 07m
- 01
- 02
Sanyal argues India must strike at terror's core inside Pakistan
Back home and blamed for Kandahar, Sanyal tells a sceptical superior that India must plant its people deep inside Pakistan.
- 03
Terrorists storm Parliament
A car with a red beacon crashes the gates, guards fall, a human bomb detonates, and security races to lock the MPs down.
- 04
Operation Dhurandhar gets the Prime Minister's nod
After the Parliament attack, Sanyal's long-shelved file finds one taker: a long-term plan named Dhurandhar. They drink to it.
- 05
Title song: Hamza crosses into Pakistan alone
Over the soaring title track, a lone man rides buses and trucks across the border towards Karachi.
- 06
Over salty tea, Hamza's contact explains Lyari's gangs
A veteran asset shares six years of patience, the gang map of Lyari, and the dark rumour about Rehman Dakait's mother.
- 07
Wedding song turns into a shootout over Rehman's sons
Hamza serves juice at a wedding as the dance builds, then gunmen strike and he dives in to protect Rehman's boys.
- 08
A grieving Rehman questions Hamza, who refuses his reward
Rehman holds his dead son's blood, grills the boy who fought back, and is struck when Hamza turns down a hundred thousand.
- 09
Rooftop tour of Lyari and the legend of SP Aslam
From the roof the gang points out every rival turf, then describes the one cop the Baloch fear in gloriously crude terms.
- 10
Hamza goads Rehman into avenging his son
At the football ground everyone counsels waiting till the election, but Hamza tells Rehman a king who doesn't strike back shames his people.
- 11
Rehman executes Babu Dakait, the father who begs for mercy
Cornered, Babu pleads that he is Rehman's own father. Rehman answers for his murdered son and claims Lyari for the Baloch.
- 12
Victory rally: Lyari chants Rehman's name
The election is won and the crowd roars for Rehman over a menacing gangster rap anthem.
- 13
Hamza walks Yalina home and tells her the bitter truth
When the car runs dry he insists on walking her, then confesses he is a gangster who loves poetry.
- 14
Major Iqbal asks Rehman for real guns from the Baloch rebels
ISI wants untraceable weapons from Balochistan. Rehman refuses to betray his community, until he hears what they are for.
- 15
SP Aslam's entrance: drug thieves and a crocodile
SP Chaudhary Aslam catches three couriers cutting the stash, tells a grisly tale of betrayal, and answers Jameel's call.
- 16
Rehman's dance entrance to the Arabic party track
Rehman arrives at a Baloch gathering and breaks into the viral dance over a pounding Gulf hip-hop beat.
- 17
Jameel reinstates Aslam, who names his price
Jameel wants Rehman cut down and hands Aslam his letter. Aslam demands his own task force, army guns and no interference.
- 18
Major Iqbal tortures a captured Indian spy
Iqbal shows how it is done, recalling Zia's vow to bleed India with a thousand cuts, as Hamza is forced to watch.
- 19
Hamza blackmails Jameel with a secret video
Hamza gives Jameel one hour to free Rehman, leaving him to realise his daughter is not at the mall at all.
- 20
Rehman walks free and warns Aslam
Released on the bridge, a bloodied Rehman tells Aslam he lit a fire he cannot control, as Lyari chants his name.
- 21
The handlers watch 26/11 unfold live on TV
Rehman's party celebrates as the Mumbai attack plays on screen, while Hamza sees what the guns he moved have done.
- 22
Hamza vows revenge; Sanyal counsels patience
Broken by the Mumbai attack, Hamza names every man he will kill. Sanyal tells him revenge burns both houses and to wait.
- 23
Yalina confronts Hamza after a night away
She screams at him for vanishing all night; he lays out his terms, and she answers with a terrifying vow of her own.
- 24
Hamza schools Jameel over tea
Jameel rages at the young man living with his daughter. Hamza calmly tells him to stake Lyari on family, not Rehman.
- 25
Rehman realises Hamza is the traitor
Driving a strange route with Uzair away, Rehman hears his own words played back and screams for the car to stop.
- 26
Donga's last stand against the task force
Wounded Donga hunts Hamza and takes on Aslam's men alone, roaring that he'll show them who Donga is.
- 27
Rehman Dakait's final showdown with Aslam
A bleeding Rehman mocks Aslam to the end, refusing to lose, until Hamza insists he must be kept alive for the city.
- 28
Flashback: what Operation Dhurandhar really is
Sanyal explains the plan: send convicts with nothing to lose into Pakistan's underworld to trace its guns to the ISI.