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I did call it when I said it was a male fantasy. But perhaps I was too kind with my diagnosis of propaganda. Dhurandhar is, in all ways, the BJP's most efficient way to gaslight and manipulate the Indian audience to believe a revised version of real-life events. It can no longer claim to be 'based on true events', a 'documentary' or a 'creative interpretation' of reality. It is far-right, Hindutva propaganda that is the most effective of its kind so far because it has established popularity and reach far beyond its predecessors. I suppose one should congratulate Aditya Dhar; he has marked a new era of cinema in which public faces and places are no longer secretly celebrated, but rather lauded by the masses. But you might be confused as to why I'm crying propaganda.  Well, if you read my Dhurandhar 1 review, while I criticized the film, I did actually enjoy it for what it tried to be. But I also pointed out its glaring flaws. Mainly, the political sentime...