📌 Key Points
- Dhurandhar 2 crossed $100 million worldwide in just six days.
- The film earned ₹575 crore net in India and over $27 million overseas.
- International critics call the movie ‘sociopathic’ and ‘hateful’.
- Despite negative reviews, Dhurandhar 2 continues to perform well at the box office.
Aditya Dhar’s ‘Dhurandhar 2,’ starring Ranveer Singh, has stormed the global box office, crossing $100 million in just six days. However, the film faces harsh criticism from international press, who are blasting its jingoistic themes and excessive violence.
Dhurandhar 2’s Box Office Success
Aditya Dhar -directorial Dhurandhar 2 has been minting money worldwide. The spy thriller, starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, has crossed the $100-million mark worldwide in just six days, earning ₹ 575 crore net at home and over $27 million overseas. This includes a stellar $15-million run in North America. However, despite this mania, critics from around the world are unimpressed. Even as reviews back home are largely positive, Dhurandhar The Revenge has copped its fair share of criticism abroad.
Writing for the New York Times , Nicolas Rapold says, “The music feels less like punchy needle-drops than the background to gaming, which one first-person-shooter flourish evokes. The first installment’s critics might think this sequel further desensitizes viewers to violence along national or religious lines. It’s a movie of the current moment, which isn’t exactly a comfort.”
International Critics Slam the Film
In her review for Movies We Texted About , Sarah Manvel is even more scathing. “By the end it’s downright routine for someone to be beat up, chained, stabbed, doused with gasoline, shot and then set on fire in order to be killed. The brutality and gore is so serious that the use of Rasputin by Boney M in one frankly racist sequence is not actually funny. The entire experience is sociopathic,” she writes.
“Dhurandhar: The Revenge mainly cares about trying to outdo 2025’s Dhurandhar in being bloated, repetitive, and showing twisted and vile murders with hateful rhetoric about certain ethnicities. The movie has a lot of high-budget spectacles in the action scenes, but the movie’s dramatic scenes are weak and have shallow characters. Dhurandhar: The Revenge is just an empty excuse to show a fictional and fanatically jingoistic and sadistically violent version of real-life historical events,” writes Carla Hay for Culture Mix .
Accusations of Jingoism and Violence
Yet, despite the negative reviews, Dhurandhar 2 has continued to mint money, even in the West. Despite no release in the Gulf, the film has already amassed $27 million overseas. In the US, it was the second-highest-grossing film in its opening weekend, behind only Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary. Talking about its box office success, Sarah Manvel wonders, “There is so little enjoyment to be found in Dhurandhar The Revenge that it’s hard to fathom as to why audiences are flocking to see all this horror. Is the real world so awful that our only joy is watching people we’re supposed to hate suffering six different ways before they die?”
Despite the scathing international reviews, the film’s commercial success demonstrates a disconnect between critical reception and audience engagement. The controversy surrounding ‘Dhurandhar 2’ underscores the challenge of balancing entertainment with sensitive geopolitical themes.
