Deepansh Duggal 🕊🇵🇸 at SXSW

Regarding #Dhurandar2 review: This is an AI-generated video depicting me being violently murdered. This is targeted harassment and criminal intimidation. Tagging @DelhiPolice @Cyberdost @GoI_MeitY @Safety — I am formally reporting this and will be pursuing legal action.

For @TheQuint, I wrote on Dhurandar: The Revenge and how Aditya Dhar, the King of 'peak detailing', uses Jaskirat/Hamza's trauma to justify the very system that failed him. This is gaslighting and exploitation disguised as heroism. #DhurandharTheRevenge thequint.com/opinion/dhuran…

Opinion | There is a version of this film that could have been devastating—a critique of a nation that fails its citizens and then feeds on their grief. But Dhar isn’t interested in that film. He is interested in myth-making: in building a world where obedience is virtue, where masculinity is measured by one’s willingness to die on command, and where the State is absolved of all its failures so long as it can produce a spectacle convincing enough. In the end, Dhurandhar: The Revenge doesn’t just tell the story of a man being exploited. It participates in that exploitation. Read the full piece on The Quint: #read-more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thequint.com/opinion/dhuran…

Opinion | There is a version of this film that could have been devastating—a critique of a nation that fails its citizens and then feeds on their grief. But Dhar isn’t interested in that film. He is interested in myth-making: in building a world where obedience is virtue, where masculinity is measured by one’s willingness to die on command, and where the State is absolved of all its failures so long as it can produce a spectacle convincing enough. In the end, Dhurandhar: The Revenge doesn’t just tell the story of a man being exploited. It participates in that exploitation. Read the full piece on The Quint: #read-more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thequint.com/opinion/dhuran…

Opinion | There is a version of this film that could have been devastating—a critique of a nation that fails its citizens and then feeds on their grief. But Dhar isn’t interested in that film. He is interested in myth-making: in building a world where obedience is virtue, where masculinity is measured by one’s willingness to die on command, and where the State is absolved of all its failures so long as it can produce a spectacle convincing enough. In the end, Dhurandhar: The Revenge doesn’t just tell the story of a man being exploited. It participates in that exploitation. Read the full piece on The Quint: #read-more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thequint.com/opinion/dhuran…

Opinion | There is a version of this film that could have been devastating—a critique of a nation that fails its citizens and then feeds on their grief. But Dhar isn’t interested in that film. He is interested in myth-making: in building a world where obedience is virtue, where masculinity is measured by one’s willingness to die on command, and where the State is absolved of all its failures so long as it can produce a spectacle convincing enough. In the end, Dhurandhar: The Revenge doesn’t just tell the story of a man being exploited. It participates in that exploitation. Read the full piece on The Quint: #read-more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thequint.com/opinion/dhuran…

Opinion | There is a version of this film that could have been devastating—a critique of a nation that fails its citizens and then feeds on their grief. But Dhar isn’t interested in that film. He is interested in myth-making: in building a world where obedience is virtue, where masculinity is measured by one’s willingness to die on command, and where the State is absolved of all its failures so long as it can produce a spectacle convincing enough. In the end, Dhurandhar: The Revenge doesn’t just tell the story of a man being exploited. It participates in that exploitation. Read the full piece on The Quint: #read-more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thequint.com/opinion/dhuran…