Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has praised Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar. While Kashyap said that he did not like a couple of dialogues in the film, he heaped praises on Dhar and his film. Kashyap called Dhar a top-notch filmmaker and wrote on Letterboxd, "A spy can not be a spy if he doesn't have hate and angst against the enemy state. A soldier also cannot be soldier if He doesn't have angst against the enemy state. On those two counts I have no issues. I have two sequences that I have a problem with.