‘Pakistan Is Our Common Enemy’: Mir Yar Baloch Slams Dhurandhar, Calls for Film on India–Balochistan’s ‘True Friendship’

Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar has sparked a fresh controversy after prominent Baloch leader Mir Yar Baloch publicly criticised the film for what he called an inaccurate and harmful portrayal of the Baloch community. The criticism centers around two key sequences — one showing characters, reportedly inspired by Lyari gangsters, chanting “Allah Hu Akbar” and celebrating the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and another where Sanjay Dutt’s character, SP Chaudhary Aslam, declares, “You can trust a crocodile, but never a Baloch.” Calling these depictions misleading and deeply offensive, Mir Yar Baloch wrote on X that the film wrongly presents Baloch–India relations in a negative light by focusing on gangsters instead of the “patriotic Baloch masses” and their struggle.

 He stressed that genuine Baloch freedom fighters have never celebrated the 26/11 attacks, never collaborated with the ISI against India, and are not driven by religious extremism. He argued that the film unfairly shows Baloch fighters selling weapons to anti-India forces despite the fact that, in reality; they suffer from a severe shortage of arms and would have defeated Pakistani forces long ago had they possessed adequate resources.

Mir Yar Baloch further rejected the film’s portrayal of Baloch gangsters printing counterfeit currency, pointing out that if such operations existed, poverty in Balochistan would have vanished. Instead, he asserted that illegal activities like drug trafficking, fake currency circulation and weapon smuggling are orchestrated by the ISI, not by Baloch freedom fighters.