“Did you watch Dhurandhar?”, a colleague asked, as I was making myself coffee at the workplace. He’s a new guy. So, I stood silent for a bit, and then cautiously answered, “Yes”, to this deeply personal question and added nothing more. Because going by the internet, your opinion about a movie can expose your latent misogyny, your choice at the polling booth, and reveal if you are training for an armed rebellion on Sunday mornings.

The new guy didn’t relent. He stood there, coffee mug in hand, waiting for me to add my review of the movie. These days, one is more comfortable discussing their bedroom than their movie choices.

“Yeah, it’s well-made. Akshay Khanna did a great job; slightly long, I felt.”

I just quoted the intersection of the reviews from both sides of the political spectrum. Still unable to deduct my leanings from this safe answer, he pressed forward, “Don’t you think it was a bit unfair…”

“Oh, I am going to write about this in my next column. Will do a detailed thing.” And I bailed out with my coffee mug.

Dhurandhar, the fiery Aditya Dhar movie, is the latest litmus test — a hard-hitting movie largely about Karachi gangs and how they aid the larger apparatus of........

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