starring Alia Bhatt as an Indian spy who secretly passes crucial defence secrets to India, explores patriotism through a more intimate and morally complex lens, Dhurandhar places violence and action at the centre of its narrative While Meghna’s 2018 film. Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi and Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar may both revolve around spies and patriotism, but the two filmmakers take very different approaches to telling their stories. In a recent interaction, Meghna opened up about the similarities and differences between the two films and how patriotism is portrayed on screen.
Meghna spoke about the difference in how patriotism is portrayed in the two films during her appearance on the podcast Learn By KK Create. If the character does not have a limit, how will I have a limit? And there was no limit of Raazi’s character’s patriotism. She had a limit when it came to her moral compass. Meghna’s latest directorial, Daayra, stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Malayalam star Prithviraj Sukumaran. The film deals with an encounter killing in which Prithviraj’s character, a police officer, kills accused in a brutal sexual assault case during a crime scene reconstruction. Kareena also plays a cop who believes in following the path of law rather than resorting to quick justice. The film explores the tricky moral boundary between justice, accountability and vigilante action.
The director said that both Raazi and Dhurandhar have patriotic characters, but how their journeys are shown on screen depends on the story the filmmaker is telling. When asked if there is any limit to the kind of patriotism she would show on screen, she said, “There is no limit.
