With the films, Aditya Dhar achieved something Bollywood has been trying to engineer for years—an event blockbuster that dominates both box office and national conversation.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
I’m not even a fan of the spy thriller genre but I watched this duology. It confuses me, what is fictional here except some dramatisation? It is about as fictional as one of them ‘true crime’ books that read like novels (think, ‘In the Skin of a Jihadist’) – real facts, told like a thriller.
Likewise, practically most of the ‘meat’ (a word I’m using deliberately) of Dhurandhar is picked straight from the news and well-recorded history. Where’s the alleged ‘propaganda’?
I’m not even a fan of the spy thriller genre but I watched this duology. It confuses me, what is fictional here except some dramatisation? It is about as fictional as one of them ‘true crime’ books that read like novels (think, ‘In the Skin of a Jihadist’) – real facts, told like a thriller.
Likewise, practically most of the ‘meat’ (a word I’m using deliberately) of Dhurandhar is picked straight from the news and well-recorded history. Where’s the alleged ‘propaganda’?