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The Propaganda‑Profit Paradox of Dhurandhar

By Nagesh Bhushan Chuppala When Ranveer Singh’s latest spy thriller,  Dhurandhar , roared onto the Indian box‑office, it did so with the subtlety of a fireworks display at a tea ceremony. Sixteen days later the film had amassed roughly  ₹800 crore  (about  US$ 95 million ) worldwide, joining an exclusive club of Indian blockbusters that could comfortably fund a small nation’s defence budget. Yet, as the cash registers rang, a very different kind of audit began: a forensic review by YouTube commentator  Dhruv Rathee . The “Well‑Made” Threat Rathee’s verdict was unequivocal:  Dhurandhar  is  “dangerous propaganda.”  In a thirty‑minute video titled  Reality of Dhurandhar , he argued that the film masquerades as “fictional / inspired by real events” while, in reality, it cherry‑picks genuine terror attacks, dates, locales and even archival footage. The result, he warned, is a  politically‑tinged narrative cloaked in cinematic gloss , a ...