Shobhaa De lambasts Hrithik Roshan for commenting on Dhurandhar’s politics: ‘He could have…’

At the same time, the author also said that it would be unfair motives to the film, while asserting that every film is political. She added, “Then came the political narrative — is this a right-wing financed film? Is Aditya Dhar recruiting people to his viewpoint? No filmmaker in the world is neutral or apolitical. Everything expressed in the public domain is political. To attribute motives like that is childish.”

Shobhaa De also spoke about how unprepared she was for the film, Shobhaa said, “Dhurandhar is like a political bomb. I wasn’t prepared for it. I went to watch it thinking it would be part of a spy universe. I mostly went because I had briefly run into Ranveer Singh at a cafe in Alibaug when he was preparing for the film. Further talking about Dhurandhar and praising Aditya Dhar for his work, she added, “The scale was massive. It also explored Lyari and the underworld of that era, drawing several parallels. From that perspective, I think it is very powerful filmmaking. I related to this more than Pathaan.”