Spoilers about the final chapter of Dhurandhar part 1 Written by Shree history
Dhurandhar: The Moment of Choice and the Price of Betrayal The Film's Complexity: Hamza's Moral Reckoning While Dhurandhar operates as nationalist cinema, it is fundamentally a film about a man trapped between worlds and forced to make an impossible choice. Ranveer Singh's Hamza doesn't simply execute a mission; he undergoes a profound psychological transformation during his deep immersion in the Lyari gang underworld. The critical turning point comes with "Et Tu Brutus," not just as a moment of espionage tradecraft, but as a moral crossroads. Hamza betrays Rehman Dakait by luring him into the police ambush, but then attempts to save him afterward. This is not the cold efficiency of a spy completing an assignment; it is the desperate gesture of someone trying to undo a betrayal, trying to preserve something precious even after destroying it. This attempted rescue reveals that Hamza's change of heart is real. He doesn't simply watch Rehman die with satisfaction. Instead, he transports the critically wounded man to the hospital, an act that serves no operational purpose, suggests no tactical advantage, and exists purely as a moral gesture. It is the act of someone who has recognized what he has lost in choosing his nation over his brother-in-arms. Baloch-India Relations Theme: The Geopolitical Tragedy The film explicitly addresses Baloch-India relations, which is precisely why Baloch leaders have responded so intensely to it.
But beneath the surface nationalist narrative lies something more complex: the film presents India's potential alignment with Baloch freedom as a road not taken, a possibility foreclosed by historical circumstance and the entanglement of Baloch liberation with Pakistan's terror apparatus. Hamza represents this tragic alignment. As a Punjabi Indian operative who infiltrates the Lyari gang, he comes into contact with genuine Baloch grievances, legitimate aspirations for freedom, and the historical reality of ISI atrocities against Baloch civilians, including the poisoning of schoolchildren. In the ordinary course of events, an Indian agent might recognize these injustices and see Baloch separatism as a counterweight to Pakistani aggression. But the film doesn't allow this comfortable alignment. Instead, it presents the Baloch cause as irrevocably compromised by its entanglement with Pakistani criminal networks, with gangsters who traffic in terror against Indian civilians.
This is the film's devastating argument: that India cannot support Baloch freedom because doing so would mean supporting terrorism against itself. The choice is not between a noble Baloch cause and a duplicitous Pakistan, it is between national security and moral solidarity with an oppressed people. Hamza's choice to betray Rehman is therefore not a simple act of patriotic duty. It is the agonizing decision to prioritize India's security interests over the possibility of India-Baloch alignment. It reflects the real geopolitical tensions that make such an alliance impossible: Balochistan is embedded within Pakistan's terror-sponsoring infrastructure; supporting Baloch freedom means, in this film's logic, supporting the very networks that attack India.
The Hospital Scene's Symbolism: Asatoma Sadgamaya and the Spiritual Dimension of Betrayal The hospital scene crystallizes the film's exploration of this impossible choice through a fusion of spiritual and political meaning. As Hamza lies wounded and traumatized, watching Rehman die despite his attempt to save him, the sacred Sanskrit prayer "Asatoma Sadgamaya" resonates through the hospital. Asatoma Sadgamaya ("Lead me from the unreal to the real") is an invocation from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, a prayer for movement from illusion to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. Its presence at this moment is profoundly ironic and devastating. The prayer plays as Hamza confronts the consequences of his choice. He has chosen the "real," India's material security, the tangible defense of his nation against terrorism. But in doing so, he has destroyed the "unreal," the possibility of solidarity with Baloch freedom, the hope that India and Baloch could stand together against Pakistani oppression.
The prayer thus becomes an indictment of his own logic: in choosing the real (national security), has he betrayed the real (moral alignment with the oppressed)? Hamza is wounded, struck in the back during the encounter with Rehman. This wound is simultaneously literal and symbolic. The back wound represents the cost of his betrayal, the vulnerability he created by turning against someone who trusted him. It is also the wound of conscience, the pain of having to abandon moral solidarity for pragmatic necessity. The hallucination of Rehman's dead face on the gurney is Hamza's encounter with the ghost of what he has destroyed. Rehman, who represented the possibility of Baloch-India alignment, appears before him not in triumph but in death. And the dead Rehman "smiles," not in forgiveness, but perhaps in a darker recognition: that Hamza had no choice, that the system itself makes such betrayals inevitable, that in a world where Baloch liberation is inseparable from terrorism against India, even moral people must become executioners. The Spiritual-Political Choice The Asatoma Sadgamaya prayer frames Hamza's choice as fundamentally spiritual, not merely tactical. He has chosen the "sadgamaya," the real, the true, the good, by defending his nation. But the prayer's ironic placement at the moment of Rehman's death suggests that this choice comes at a cost to another kind of truth: the reality of Baloch suffering, the justice of their cause, the possibility that India and Baloch could together resist Pakistani domination. Hamza emerges from the hospital wounded, haunted, transformed. He has made the choice that national security demands, but he carries the spiritual injury of that choice. The next film promises his revenge against ISI's Major Iqbal, suggesting that having severed ties with Baloch solidarity, Hamza will pursue India's security interests with even greater intensity, compensating for the moral cost of his betrayal through escalated nationalist action. Why This Complexity Terrifies the Establishment This is precisely why the film generates such intense reactions across the Islamic world. It is not simply nationalist propaganda, it is a meditation on the impossibility of moral alignment when geopolitical interests diverge. It suggests that even those with sympathy for Baloch freedom cannot act on that sympathy without betraying their own nations.
This exposes Pakistan's fundamental strategic vulnerability: it has built its terror networks so thoroughly into Balochistan's fabric that any Baloch liberation movement appears, from India's perspective, as terrorism. The film doesn't argue that Baloch freedom is illegitimate; rather, it shows that Pakistan has made Baloch freedom impossible to support from India's standpoint without cost to Indian security. For Gulf countries with close ties to Pakistan, this is indeed unpalatable. The film does not allow them the comfort of seeing Pakistan as simply a victim of Indian aggression. Instead, it presents Pakistan as a state so corrupted by its own terror apparatus that it cannot be separated from the very networks India must oppose. Hamza's wound, Rehman's death, and the Asatoma Sadgamaya prayer together compose a requiem for the road not taken, the alliance between India and Baloch freedom that geopolitics has rendered impossible.
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