The much-anticipated trailer for Dhurandhar, the latest adrenaline-pumping thriller from director Aditya Dhar, dropped like a precision strike on 18 November 2025.
Starring Ranveer Singh as a covert operative diving into Pakistan’s terror underworld, the trailer pays tribute to India’s unsung intelligence heroes who operate in the shadows, risking everything to keep the country safe.
But while the public embraced this unapologetic depiction of India’s silent warriors, one man could not handle it.
Dhruv Rathee got triggered.
Badly.
The Pro-Congress, Pro-AAP, Leftist Propaganda YouTuber erupted on social media, comparing the trailer’s violence to “ISIS beheadings,” blaming the filmmaker’s “lust for money,” and warning that Aditya Dhar was “poisoning young minds.” The performance was less film critique and more melodramatic meltdown.
Aditya Dhar has truly crossed a limit of cheapness in Bollywood.
The extreme violence, gore and torture shown in his latest film trailer is the equivalent of watching ISIS beheadings and calling it “entertainment”.
His lust for money is so unhinged that he is willingly…
— Dhruv Rathee (@dhruv_rathee) November 18, 2025
But why did this film, out of all the violent content Rathee has consumed, praised, and even promoted, send him into such hysterics?
Simple:
Dhurandhar shows Pakistan’s ISI exactly as it is — and Rathee cannot digest it.
A Brief Scene Exposes ISI Brutality — And Dhruv Rathee Panics
A short sequence in the trailer shows an Indian asset being tortured by an ISI handler. It’s disturbing, yes. Because it should be. Because this is the reality of Pakistan’s deep-state black sites. Because dozens of Indian operatives have endured unspeakable brutality in enemy territory.
Yet Dhruv Rathee behaves as though Aditya Dhar invented this cruelty for shock value.
This is the same man who happily accepted money from Netflix India to promote Gangs of Wasseypur, a gore-drenched epic filled with cleaver attacks, bullet-ridden bodies, rape threats, chopped limbs, and graphic revenge killings. He called it “essential viewing.”
But now suddenly, a few seconds of violence in Dhurandhar are “ISIS-level”?
Now suddenly he wants censorship?
Now suddenly he cares about “young minds”?
No.
He cares about something else entirely: who the villain is.
When violence exposes the ISI—Rathee’s selective conscience wakes up.
Dhurandhar Shows the ISI’s True Face And Glorifies India’s Intelligence Agents
For years, Dhruv Rathee’s content has followed a predictable pattern: downplay Pakistan’s role in cross-border terrorism, amplify “nuance,” and shift responsibility onto India’s “aggressive nationalism.” Every terror incident becomes a moral lecture about diplomacy, politics, and “both sides.”
Dhurandhar demolishes that façade in two minutes.
It shows:
The ISI as a terror-enabling deep state.
Pakistan’s soil as a breeding ground for jihadist networks.
Indian agents as patriots who infiltrate and disrupt these networks.
Intelligence operations as the backbone of India’s defence—not propaganda.
For Rathee, whose digital brand thrives on obscuring Pakistan’s complicity and magnifying India’s faults, this is a narrative nightmare.
An Ajit Doval-inspired character played by R. Madhavan could only intensify his discomfort.
No wonder he’s triggered.
Outrage Is Also About His Pakistani Fan Base
Here’s a factor rarely discussed, but impossible to ignore:
Dhruv Rathee enjoys a massive following in Pakistan.
His videos routinely trend on Pakistani YouTube.
Pakistani influencers frequently amplify his content.
Pakistani Twitter circles treat him as a credible counter-narrative to Indian media.
And why wouldn’t they?
Rathee’s commentary has consistently framed India as the villain and Pakistan as the misunderstood neighbour.
So when Dhurandhar openly showcases Pakistan’s ISI as the architect of terror, Rathee is not just reacting for himself — he is reacting for an entire foreign audience that sees him as their ideological spokesman.
A film that exposes the ISI hurts the very demographic that forms a significant chunk of his international viewership.
Of course he’s uncomfortable.
Of course he’s triggered.
He can’t risk upsetting the ecosystem that treats him like a hero for bashing India and whitewashing Pakistan.
His meltdown has nothing to do with gore.
It has everything to do with:
~a film that unmasks Pakistan’s deep state,
~a trailer that disrupts his ideological narrative,
~a portrayal of Indian strength he cannot reconcile with,
~and a Pakistani audience he cannot afford to disappoint.
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