With Dhurandhar: The Revenge becoming a massive hit in Tamil Nadu, drug case accused DMK-linked Dravidian Stock director Ameer Sultan has been ranting about the film’s story and content.
The film, which lays bare Pakistan’s nexus of drugs and terrorism and the Islamist hostility toward those deemed “infidels,” appears to have struck a nerve with Ameer Sultan.
In an interview to a YouTube channel Ameer Sultan seems to be having problems with an Indian spy working against Pakistan for India’s interests.
“Recently a movie called Dhurandhar has released. A big hit! Wow. A patriotic film. One man goes from here and he struggles there (Pakistan) with terrorist gangs. That man is a nationalist! Entering another country and deceiving them is nationalism. If someone comes from there (Pakistan) to India, he’s a spy. If our guy goes to Pakistan, he’s a patriot. If he (Pakistani) comes here, he’s a spy for us but he’s a patriot there. How should one prove his patriotism? Who is deciding this?“, he says.
He further goes on to express his displeasure with people supporting India during India-Pakistan match.
“During an India-Pakistan match, if you support India, it is considered patriotism. You can’t enjoy the game. You can’t admire a player. You’ve to admire only your country!“, he says in the interview.
Commenting on Dhurandhar: The Revenge, Ameer Sultan ranted that ever since Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014, cinema has increasingly been leveraged for political messaging rather than pure entertainment. He claimed a pattern has emerged where films and media are used to advance the ruling party’s ideology—citing movies like The Kerala Story and The Kashmir Files as examples that project a Hindutva narrative and bolster the BJP, while portraying the Indian National Congress as weak and led by a “puppet” prime minister.”
He also called Nambi Narayanan as a man accused of leaking military secrets and said that films are being made on him in a heroic light, discounting the fact that the Supreme Court had held that Narayanan was “unnecessarily arrested and harassed” and ordered the Kerala government to pay him ₹50 lakh as compensation for mental cruelty and loss of dignity.
Madurai, Tamil Nadu: On ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ film, Tamil film director Ameer Sultan says, “The film industry, which exists primarily to provide entertainment to the people, has increasingly been used for political purposes after 2014, when the BJP came to power. Since then,… pic.twitter.com/05or4ptbyw
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Who Is Ameer?
Ameer Sultan, a Tamil filmmaker known for his Islamist-Dravidianist leanings, has faced growing scrutiny over his close ties with Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK NRI Wing official accused of running an international drug-trafficking network. Dubbed Sadiq’s “bestie,” Ameer was named in an ED chargesheet alleging money laundering through films and was summoned by the NCB in April 2024 in connection with the smuggling of pseudoephedrine worth ₹2,000 crore. In October 2024, a special court summoned both Ameer and Sadiq as part of the ongoing money-laundering case. More recently, Ameer was accused of participating in a coordinated smear campaign against Justice G. R. Swaminathan, aligning with the DMK’s broader ideological ecosystem.
At a forum hosted by the Dravidianist YouTube channel “The Debate,” filmmaker Ameer attacked Sanatana Dharma and Brahmins, claiming as a Muslim he stood outside the caste system. He accused “Aryans” of creating caste, linked honor killings to Hindu epics, and praised DMK as Tamil Nadu’s positive force. His comments included sweeping generalizations, targeting practices like Vinayagar Chaturthi as dominated by “intermediate castes” while alleging Brahmins remain aloof. He also quoted EV Ramasamy Naicker (hailed as ‘Periyar’ by his followers) saying “Islam is the best medicine to eliminate racial discrimination.”
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