pWotD Episode 3140: Dhurandhar Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today. With 397,874 views on Saturday, 6 December 2025 our article of the day is Dhurandhar. Dhurandhar (transl. Stalwart) is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Aditya Dhar. Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar under the banners Jio Studios and B62 Studios, it stars Ranveer Singh, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, R. Madhavan, Arjun Rampal, Sara Arjun, and Rakesh Bedi. The film is inspired by the real-life incidents, geopolitical conflicts, and covert operations of India's intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) with local gangs and crime syndicates in the Lyari area of Karachi, Pakistan. The first instalment of a two-part series, the second instalment titled Dhurandhar Part 2 will release on 19 March 2026. Principal photography took place from July 2024 and October 2025, with filming taking place in Thailand, Mumbai, Punjab, and Ladakh. The soundtrack and film score were composed by Shashwat Sachdev. With a runtime of 214 minutes, it is one of the longest Indian films ever made. Dhurandhar was released on 5 December 2025 and received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with praise towards the performance of the ensemble cast (particularly Singh and Khanna), direction, cinematography, music and the film’s atmospheric world-building, while the lengthy runtime, uneven pacing, and occasional narrative inconsistencies were criticised. This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:36 UTC on Sunday, 7 December 2025. For the full current version of the article, see Dhurandhar on Wikipedia . This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes. Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com . Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner , a current events podcast. Until next time, I'm standard Russell.
