Wikipedia drops ‘propaganda’ label for Dhurandhar: The Revenge

WIkipedia no longer describes Dhurandhar: The Revenge as a “propaganda film,” with the edit coming after online debates between authorised Wikipedia users and editors about whether a minority opinion about the film was being given undue weight or not.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge is now described on its Wikipedia page as a “2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar”.

However, both the Wikipedia pages for Dhurandhar and its sequel Dhurandhar: The Revenge are still under editing restrictions, marked by a lock with an ‘E’ on the top right corner of the page.

This means that the page is under ‘extended confirmed protection,’ so that only users with the extended confirmed user access level, Wikipedia administrators, and bots can make edits.

Wikipedia uses different protection levels in order to stop non-members or bad-faith actors from tampering with articles and making edits to contentious topic pages.

The Dhurandhar duology starring Ranveer Singh was generally appreciated for its cinematography, storyline, music, and its ability to excite watchers across India, while multiple critics accused it of promoting Islamophobia or pandering to India’s Bharatiya Janata Party and government.

The Wikipedia pages for other Indian films that were popular with right-wing Hindu moviegoers and accused of being propaganda films have also been locked. These include The Kerala Story and The Kerala Story 2, which were accused of portraying inter-religious relationships between Hindu women and Muslim men as being violent and linked to terrorist activity or population replacement conspiracies. Both films’ pages were placed under extended confirmed protection on Wikipedia.

Meanwhile, The Kashmir Files film about communal violence against Hindus in Kashmir was put under a state of ‘semi-protection,’ so that pages may be edited only by registered users until a set date in 2027. The Bengal Files, another film by the same director — Vivek Agnihotri — was also put under extended confirmed protection.