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WIkipedia nary longer describes Dhurandhar: The Revenge arsenic a “propaganda film,” with the edit coming aft online debates betwixt authorised Wikipedia users and editors astir whether a number sentiment astir the movie was being fixed undue value oregon not.
Dhurandhar: The Revenge is present described connected its Wikipedia leafage arsenic a “2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller movie written and directed by Aditya Dhar”.
However, some the Wikipedia pages for Dhurandhar and its sequel Dhurandhar: The Revenge are inactive nether editing restrictions, marked by a fastener with an ‘E’ connected the apical close country of the page.
This means that the leafage is nether ‘extended confirmed protection,’ truthful that lone users with the extended confirmed idiosyncratic entree level, Wikipedia administrators, and bots tin marque edits.
Wikipedia uses antithetic extortion levels successful bid to halt non-members oregon bad-faith actors from tampering with articles and making edits to contentious taxable pages.
The Dhurandhar duology starring Ranveer Singh was mostly appreciated for its cinematography, storyline, music, and its quality to excite watchers crossed India, portion aggregate critics accused it of promoting Islamophobia oregon pandering to India’s Bharatiya Janata Party and government.
The Wikipedia pages for different Indian films that were fashionable with right-wing Hindu moviegoers and accused of being propaganda films person besides been locked. These see The Kerala Story and The Kerala Story 2, which were accused of portraying inter-religious relationships betwixt Hindu women and Muslim men arsenic being convulsive and linked to violent enactment oregon colonisation replacement conspiracies. Both films’ pages were placed nether extended confirmed extortion connected Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, The Kashmir Files movie astir communal unit against Hindus successful Kashmir was enactment nether a authorities of ‘semi-protection,’ truthful that pages whitethorn beryllium edited lone by registered users until a acceptable day successful 2027. The Bengal Files, different movie by the aforesaid manager — Vivek Agnihotri — was besides enactment nether extended confirmed protection.
