Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ and the perils of ‘nationalist’ violence This propaganda is not in favour of the state, like many Hollywood films, but in favour of the ruling party, thus collapsing together the state and the party. Nevertheless, the label “propaganda” is hardly novel in a Bollywood climate suffused with propagandist productions. What is more critical, in a political reading, is that films such as Dhurandhar are enabling the construction of a new kind of Indian citizen, in which a narrowly defined nationalism is the only virtue and is also indissolubly associated with violence. This has grave implications for culture as well as democracy.
