Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap praised Aditya Dhar's "Dhurandhar" as a "brilliant film" with "top-notch" filmmaking, despite having issues with two specific dialogues he labeled as "propaganda." Kashyap noted that a spy or soldier requires angst against an enemy state, which he found acceptable. However, he took issue with lines spoken by R Madhavan and Ranveer Singh, suggesting they underlined the film's politics. Kashyap defended Dhar's political perspective, attributing it to his personal history as a Kashmiri Pandit who has suffered, rather than opportunism.