{"id":262875,"date":"2026-02-01T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262875\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:23:10","slug":"did-dhadak-2-director-shazia-iqbal-call-dhurandhar-a-sinister-film-the-director-drops-cryptic-note-says-inciting-hate-and-violence-is-the-films-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262875\/","title":{"rendered":"Did ‘Dhadak 2’ director Shazia Iqbal call ‘Dhurandhar’ a sinister film? The director drops cryptic note, says inciting hate and violence is the film’s DNA |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Did Filmmaker Shazia Iqbal<\/a>, who made her directorial debut with the romantic drama ‘Dhadak 2’ last year, has dropped her views on Aditya Dhar<\/a>\u2019s spy thriller ‘Dhurandhar’. After finally watching the film, she openly criticised the film and described it as something with a troubling intent. The Ranveer Singh-led project currently stands as the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the domestic box office.Taking to Instagram Stories on Sunday, Shazia did not name ‘Dhurandhar’ directly but left little room for ambiguity. \u201cWhat a sinister film! It\u2019s not hidden, it\u2019s not unintentional, inciting hate and violence is in the DNA of the film. But it\u2019s a \u2018well made\u2019 film guys\u2026 With some cool BgM (smile emoji). Well done industry dud bros. Glad that most of y\u2019all don\u2019t care about minorities enough to even hide your blatant apathy,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

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She also shared a screenshot of an Instagram DM that read, \u201cHow are so many people\/lists saying Dhadak 2 and Dhurandhar in the same breath, like schizophrenia ho gaya hai kya logon ko (do they have schizophrenia or what) (laughing with tears emoji). Or people really do contain multitudes and we\u2019re too rigid (laughing with tears emoji).\u201d \"Shazia\" \"Shazia The mention of ‘Dhurandhar’ in the message made it evident that Shazia\u2019s earlier posts were directed at the film, especially as it premiered on Netflix India just days ago. In addition, she extended her criticism to the teaser of Vipul Shah\u2019s upcoming ‘The Kerala Story 2’, the sequel to his 2023 hit.\u201cAnd then there is Kerala Story 2 teaser,\u201d Shazia wrote in another Story, which she shared with the audio of AR Rahman\u2019s iconic patriotic song \u201cYe Jo Des Hai Tera\u201d from Ashutosh Gowariker\u2019s 2004 classic ‘Swades’, starring Shah Rukh Khan<\/a>. She also reposted a discussion highlighting how social media\u2019s role in spreading misinformation and prejudice has made it an even more dangerous tool of propaganda than Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Shazia Iqbal, who made her directorial debut with the romantic drama ‘Dhadak 2’ last year, has dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94603,75616,94607,156,24072,409,111,139,69,505,1481,150259,150462],"class_list":{"0":"post-262875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aditya-dhar","9":"tag-dhadak-2","10":"tag-dhurandhar","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-film-criticism","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-ranveer-singh","18":"tag-shah-rukh-khan","19":"tag-shazia-iqbal","20":"tag-the-kerala-story-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}