Dhurandhar: The Revenge - What to Know Before Jaskirat Singh Rangi Returns on 19 March 2026

Six days from now, one of the most anticipated Indian films of the year arrives in cinemas. Dhurandhar: The Revenge — known to most as Dhurandhar 2 — releases on 19 March 2026, and if the advance booking numbers are anything to go by, the audience has been waiting.

The original Dhurandhar came out in December 2025. It ran in theatres for months, moved to Netflix, and then kept running in theatres anyway. Today, 13 March, it re-released across 1,000+ screens globally to build the runway to the sequel. The last time a Hindi film attempted something like this — a continuous theatrical run bridging Part 1 and Part 2 — nobody could quite remember it happening. That is the scale of what director Aditya Dhar has built with this franchise in under four months.

If you have not seen Part 1 yet, now is the time. If you have, the trailer for The Revenge will tell you why people are already saying this one goes further.

What Dhurandhar: The Revenge is actually about

The first film followed Jaskirat Singh Rangi — a Punjabi-born Indian intelligence operative running a deep-cover identity as Hamza Ali Mazari inside Karachi's criminal and political networks. The mission: infiltrate, destabilise, survive. The film ended with threads deliberately left unresolved, and one post-credits scene that told audiences exactly where things were going.

The Revenge picks up from that point. Jaskirat's cover has cost him everything. The sequel goes into his origin story — what made a man from Punjab become the operation's most dangerous asset, and what personal losses were buried under the mission. Alongside that backstory, the present-day conflict escalates: Lyari's gang hierarchy has collapsed following Rehman Dakait's death, a power vacuum that every faction is fighting to fill, and Major Iqbal — the ISI operative Jaskirat has been hunting — is still in play.

The film does not clean things up neatly. If the trailer is honest, The Revenge is uglier and more personal than Part 1, which was already not a comfortable watch.

The cast — and what each person brings back

Ranveer Singh returns as Jaskirat Singh Rangi / Hamza Ali Mazari, and this time he has more to work with. The origin story material gives him scenes that the first film's operational focus could not accommodate — moments where the character is not yet the operator, where he is just a young man from Punjab being shaped by circumstances into something harder.

Arjun Rampal plays Major Iqbal as the film's primary antagonist. His character is built on real historical figures from Pakistan's intelligence establishment, which gives Rampal something specific to work against — this is not a generic villain, and Aditya Dhar has written him with enough ideological coherence to make him genuinely dangerous rather than just menacing.

R. Madhavan returns as Ajay Sanyal, Director of the Intelligence Bureau — a character written with clear references to Ajit Doval. Madhavan is one of those actors who can hold authority onscreen without needing many words, and his scenes with Ranveer in Part 1 were among the film's quieter and more effective moments.

Sanjay Dutt's SP Chaudhary Aslam operates in Sindh Police territory and represents the law enforcement dimension of a story that is largely about the space where law and intelligence operations overlap uncomfortably. It is a strong supporting role in a film with a genuinely stacked bench.

The soundtrack — and why Jasmine Sandlas matters here

The first single from The Revenge, Aari Aari, dropped on 12 March 2026 — one day before the Part 1 re-release, and one week before the sequel's debut.

The song is a remix of Bombay Rockers' 2003 hit of the same name — a track built on the traditional Punjabi folk melody Baari Barsi, fused with early-2000s hip-hop rhythms that made it one of the defining Punjabi pop songs of that era. Composer Shashwat Sachdev has rebuilt it for 2026 with a harder edge that fits the film's tempo without losing the original's identity.

The vocals feature Navtej Singh Rehal of Bombay Rockers, Khan Saab — and Jasmine Sandlas.

For the Indian and Punjabi community in Melbourne, that last name means something specific. Jasmine Sandlas's Gulabi Queen Australia Tour 2026 brought her to Melbourne and Sydney earlier this year, and Radio Haanji 1674 AM covered it closely. Her voice on this track is not a throwaway feature credit — she is central to the song's Punjabi texture, and hearing that voice attached to what is shaping up as the biggest Indian release of March 2026 is not a coincidence. She is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Punjabi music, and Shashwat Sachdev knew what he was doing when he picked her.

For more on Jasmine Sandlas and her work, Radio Haanji's coverage of her Australia tour is at haanji.com.au/podcast.

Why this film matters beyond the box office

Dhurandhar: The Revenge is a significant film for a reason that goes beyond its production values or its advance booking records. It is a story about a Punjabi man who gives everything to a mission that requires him to disappear — to become someone else, to live inside an identity that is not his, to operate in a world where the only people who know who he really is cannot acknowledge him publicly.

That is not a standard Bollywood premise. It is morally complicated in ways that the genre does not often sit with. Aditya Dhar earned trust with Uri: The Surgical Strike and built on it with Dhurandhar Part 1. The Revenge arrives with that trust intact, and with the weight of an audience that has spent months with this story and wants to see where it ends.

For Melbourne's Indian and Punjabi community, this kind of storytelling connects across borders. Jaskirat Singh Rangi is not an abstract action hero. His roots are in Punjab, his values are shaped by a specific culture and history, and the film takes that seriously. That is what Radio Haanji 1674 AM covers — the stories that carry our community's world inside them. Dhurandhar: The Revenge is one of them.

For the full Radio Haanji entertainment and film coverage, visit haanji.com.au/podcast. For deep-dive interviews with Bollywood and Punjabi film talent, The Walkman Show with Gautam Kapil and the Haanji Interviews series are worth your time.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge — key facts at a glance

Release date: 19 March 2026

Director and writer: Aditya Dhar

Cast: Ranveer Singh, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Danish Pandor, Gaurav Gera, Manav Gohil

Music: Shashwat Sachdev | Lyrics: Irshad Kamil | Music label: T-Series

Aari Aari vocalist feature: Jasmine Sandlas, Khan Saab, Navtej Singh Rehal (Bombay Rockers)

Production: Jio Studios and B62 Studios

Languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada

OTT streaming: JioHotstar (post-theatrical)

Runtime: approximately 3.5 hours

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