{"id":364445,"date":"2025-12-23T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364445\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:17:08","slug":"arjun-rampal-opens-up-about-playing-isi-major-iqbal-in-aditya-dhars-dhurandhar-i-felt-horrible-when-doing-it-because-you-love-your-country-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364445\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjun Rampal opens up about playing ISI Major Iqbal in Aditya Dhar&#8217;s Dhurandhar, &#8216;I felt horrible when doing it because you love your country so much&#8217; |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arjunrampal-dhurandhar-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"Arjun Rampal opens up about playing ISI Major Iqbal in Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar, 'I felt horrible when doing it because you love your country so much'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/arjun-rampal\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arjun Rampal<\/a>\u2019s portrayal of ISI Major Iqbal, ominously dubbed the Angel of Death, has become one of the most discussed aspects of Dhurandhar. While the film continues its strong box office run, Rampal\u2019s chilling antagonist has sparked a parallel conversation online, with many calling it one of his most disturbing performances yet.Opening up about the role, Arjun admitted that inhabiting a character so ideologically opposed to his own beliefs came at an emotional cost. The actor revealed that he was eager to distance himself from the character once filming concluded. <\/p>\n<p>Dhurandhar\u2019s 26\/11 Scene That Shook A Survivor<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI wanted to get out of the character as soon as I could. One of the important reasons to do it was because it is an important film to do,\u201d he was quoted as saying by Bollywood Hungama.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I felt horrible when doing it\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating on the internal conflict he experienced during the shoot, Rampal explained how portraying such moments can be unsettling for an actor, even if they appear thrilling on screen.\u201cTo see the event is one thing. What happened behind the scenes, to see those events taking place, is something that would excite me as an audience. I felt horrible when doing it because you love your country so much, but I guess that\u2019s what an actor\u2019s job is, and you just have to dive into it,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Dhurandhar\u2019s North America Rampage<\/p>\n<p>About Dhurandhar<\/p>\n<p>Dhurandhar follows Intelligence Bureau chief Ajay Sanyal, played by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/r-madhavan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R. Madhavan<\/a>, as he leads a high-stakes mission to dismantle a terror network operating out of Pakistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ranveer-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ranveer Singh<\/a> essays the role of a Punjabi youth recruited from prison and trained to infiltrate Karachi\u2019s criminal underworld.The film stars Ranveer Singh in the lead, alongside Sara Arjun, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, Akshaye Khanna and R. Madhavan. With the film already raking in Rs 572 crore at the box office, a sequel is firmly in place. Dhurandhar 2 is slated to release on March 19, 2026, and is set for a major box office clash with Yash-starrer Toxic, which is also scheduled to hit theatres on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arjun Rampal\u2019s portrayal of ISI Major Iqbal, ominously dubbed the Angel of Death, has become one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35283,130793,156380,49,48,6182,150794,156379,156378,75,156377,337,954,6187],"class_list":{"0":"post-364445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aditya-dhar","9":"tag-arjun-rampal","10":"tag-arjun-rampal-dhurandhar","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-dhurandhar","14":"tag-dhurandhar-box-office","15":"tag-dhurandhar-box-office-collection","16":"tag-dhurandhar-sequel","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-isi-major-iqbal","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-r-madhavan","21":"tag-ranveer-singh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}