Why Dhurandhar stayed with me long after the Screen went Dark
I once read,
“Imagine a fruit grown with your name written on it. No matter which market it goes to, whose hands pick it up, or how far it travels… it will still find its way to you.”
These words serve as a reminder:
Everything that is meant for me will find its way to me.
All that I want, wants me too, and all that I need on my journey will reach me at the right time.
But sometimes we panic because we feel off track because we’re not getting what we want, or because life places us in situations completely unfamiliar to us. In those moments, we wish someone would arrive to make everything easier, clearer, and less uncertain.
I was somewhere in the middle of this feeling in December.
I had started my writing journey long back, but inner chaos, faltering faith, and a lack of a clear roadmap blocked me from immersing myself in it.
I wanted to step closer to my words, but when external circumstances became challenging, it turned every word into a task.
When I failed to concentrate, I found myself waiting and waiting for the right time.
I could not bear this distance from my words for long, so I decided to isolate myself for as much time as I could afford. I was seeking solitude, and so I moved away from my family.
It was a bold decision; one I took before the year ended and I stepped into 2026 with one goal:
To write.
The day I reached the city where I planned to stay for a few months, I breathed with confidence. I was in a state of clarity, in my power mode, ready to begin my writing sessions.
I thought it was all my planning until this moment, when Dhurandhar happened.
I had come with my brother, who was to go back in a day or two.
The very next day, around 6 in the evening, my brother called and said,
“Want to watch Dhurandhar?”
Disclaimer: I hadn’t been to a movie theatre in the last 8–10 years.
And I had no idea what the movie was about.
For me, it was simply an outing. A small, fresh start before I immersed myself in my work, so I thought, why not!
I did not know Dhurandhar, but Dhurandhar knew me.
Right after the call, I googled Dhurandhar. That’s when I recalled all the viral reels of Dhurandhar I had come across the social media lately. It was the moment I said, “Oh, this one.”
I did not know the name Dhurandhar, but I knew that something about it was grabbing people’s attention.
It was a night show, and I was ready by 8 to leave.
I was in a fresh mood to receive Dhurandhar, but I had no clue what Dhurandhar was planning to give me.
We reached the movie hall, took our seats, and the movie started with a thrill.
I watched the entire film from a writer’s perspective, so whenever something struck a chord with me, I made a note of it. I didn’t immerse myself in the story as much as I dug into the piercing, deep lines, ones I related to life on a deeper level.
For me, Dhurandhar was like a script; I saw many messages embedded in it for me, and fortunately, I picked up on many of them.
My mind kept note of all the dialogues that shifted something inside me. Each one kept me hooked for the next few minutes, as if I were in my own Dhurandhar world with that single line.
There were reflections while I watched the movie, and then there were sudden synchronicities after the movie ended. The Dhurandhar movie ended in the theatre, but the word Dhurandhar stayed with me.
It wasn’t just a movie for me; it was a message I was called to receive.
It was that fruit with my name on it.
Dialogues that landed heavier than the scene
“Ghayal hoon, isliye ghatak hoon.”
(“I am wounded, and that’s why I am deadly.”)
The dialogue I ruminated on for weeks. When you see someone powerful, unbreakable, or deadly, it isn’t something they received as a legacy; it is something they built from pain and their wounds.
When one becomes incredibly powerful, there is always a story of struggle they had to survive. In their wild attempt to endure intense pain, they discovered power building within them.
This dialogue serves as an awareness:
Someone shaped by pain cannot be beaten down to accommodate, compromise, or lose in life. Such a person moves with a force that no challenging situation can break.
“Kismat ki sabse khoobsurat aadat pata hai kya hai… woh waqt aane pe badalti hai.”
(“Do you know what is destiny’s most beautiful habit? It changes when the time comes.”)
This is a powerful and empowering reminder for times when life feels like it’s going out of whack, making everything difficult. In those moments, this line serves like light more than hope, a clear message that fate isn’t fixed; it evolves, often when we least expect it.
“This chapter will not stay forever.”
It brings relief in dark days and reminds you to cherish every moment before it passes.
The movie had something unique that connected with the writer inside me.
It felt less like a movie and more like a book, because it was divided into different chapters.
When the movie began with the big screen flashing Chapter One, my writer’s instinct felt awake and more conscious.
My mind switched instantaneously into a reader’s mode. I no longer felt like I was sitting in a movie hall, but more like I was reading a book—pausing, thinking, and reflecting on the lines that amazed me.
The chapter names felt like different stories in themselves.
Reading the title of each chapter was like stepping into my writing world, imagining the chapters of my future books. There wasn’t a single moment when I saw it the way others in the hall were watching it.
I was a reader all the way till the end, reading between the lines.
Some of the chapter names stayed with me, either as ideas for my future writing or simply as pieces of wisdom. I even researched them to gain a deeper understanding of the messages behind them. Dhurandhar turned out to be one beautiful memory that sparked a light in the writer inside me.
Chapter Titles that Spoke to Me
The Price of Peace
This chapter name stirred something inside me for it had the resemblance with many of my surviving days.
Peace is Precious and so it has a Price.
On a bright sunny day, when things are going smooth, peace is not earned, it comes like a gift but the moment your world shakes, your survival becomes a challenge, that’s when peace hangs a price on itself.
Real peace is not the absence of chaos; it’s the ability to not let chaos take you away from your peace. Sometimes you have to swallow your ego, let go of revenge, walk away from being “right,” or endure misunderstanding just to protect your peace.
Stranger in the land of shadows
It means when the dark chapter of your life knocks, you stand like a stranger in it.
The chapter name acknowledges that feeling of being emotionally lost when walking through a phase of life where nothing feels certain. You struggle to understand this chapter where every word is hard for you to pick up. You reach a place where you don’t have clarity and awareness to even take that next one step.
Calling it a stranger in the land of shadows gives you a kind of permission to feel weak, and to be okay with that weakness. Because until you understand this new land, it’s bound to leave you feeling unsettled and worked up.
The word stranger gives a consoling feeling to someone who is going through a dark phase so that they do not undervalue or underestimate themselves.
Because the only way to navigate through the life’s labyrinth is first by accepting that you are new to this chapter.
Being a “stranger” means you’re in transition.
You don’t belong to who you were, but you haven’t yet become who you’re meant to be.
Shadows don’t just represent darkness; they reveal where light is missing. This chapter can symbolize the soul’s journey through confusion before clarity.
Bullets and roses
This was the core message that my life taught me.
Life is never just pain or just happiness. It’s both, often at the same time.
We experience love in the middle of loss, hope in the middle of chaos, and softness in the middle of survival.
It shows how human emotions live in duality. We face life’s storms even when we feel the weakest. We protect what we love even if it hurts us. We live harsh chapters even when we desire for gentleness.
There is Bullets and roses inside each one, hard because of the pain we suffered and soft because of the love we carry.
Light and darkness grow in the same soul. A person can carry rage and compassion, scars and warmth, destruction and devotion.
Butterfly effect
This chapter name became my inspiration. It asked me to not look at life in days, weeks, months or years but in each moment.
Butterfly effect means how our small actions can lead to huge consequences. Tiny decisions like one word, one choice, one moment of courage or fear can change the entire direction of a life.
Like wounds create future reactions, kindness echoes longer than we realize and how one mistake can change everything.
We often think life is about big moments. But it’s the small unseen choices that build destinies.
Life is not random. Every action creates ripples. The universe responds to energy, intention, and choice even the ones we think don’t matter.
The Devil’s Guardian
This chapter name is like a wakeup call to monitor our inner devils. When we are led by darkness, ignorance, ego, hate, temptation, or destructive influence, that is called the devil’s guardian.
These inner devils provoke us to seek revenge instead of healing, ego instead of humility, power instead of peace, Fear instead of faith.
It shows that villain is not always on the outside, sometimes the devil is our unresolved pain that make wrong decisions.
If we do not heal our pain, it becomes misleading. It leads toward destruction, not freedom.
We have two guides:
The voice of growth (faith, love, patience)
The voice of destruction (anger, pride, hatred)
This chapter symbolizes moments where someone follows the voice of destruction.
The reminder is Not every guide is meant to be followed.
The movie ended, but Dhurandhar stayed.
It became a mysterious force at a point when I was about to go all in with my writing journey.
When I reached back home and recalled the moment my brother asked me to go for the movie, it felt like a revelation. Dhurandhar had arrived like a divinely coded message, filling me with grit and zeal for my endeavor.
I had not yet fully understood why Dhurandhar happened until the moment I sat in front of my blank screen and a sudden, wild pop-up occurred.
A thought whispered to me: “You are the Dhurandhar.”
Something so powerful happened in that moment that, right after the thought, I saw myself as a Dhurandhar one who is unstoppable and unbreakable. All the struggles, pain, challenges, and loneliness I had gone through became the driving force behind my Dhurandhar version.
Dhurandhar wasn’t just a movie; it was the real-life turning point of my story.
The readiness I felt to pursue my work after watching Dhurandhar was magical, almost otherworldly.
While I was in this Dhurandhar wave, I made a prompt action. I took a notecard and wrote Dhurandhar on it and placed it on my working table. This notecard became my real motivation, each day reminding me the Dhurandhar I was becoming.
Sometimes we’re called to things because they are waiting for us, carrying something we might need on our journey.
Dhurandhar was that one thing waiting for me, to give me the Dhurandhar feeling toward my journey.
Sometimes you don’t plan your journey; you are simply asked to walk it.
Who you can become, who you are meant to become, there is a divine hierarchy that decides, plans, and knows better. You might think it is your decision, you might feel you are making the plan, but the truth is you are just a part of the plan, not the planner.
In the end, Dhurandhar, a stalwart, didn’t feel like a word from a film; it felt like a name for the part of me that endures, carries, and keeps showing up.
