New Delhi: When Dhurandhar , an Indian spy movie loosely based on Karachi’s infamous Lyari gang war, opened in cinemas on 5 December, something unusual happened: instead of the usual India-Pakistan good vs bad debate, Pakistanis began arguing with Pakistanis.

Aditya Dhar’s three-hour movie has divided them. For some, it is a reminder of their own country’s reluctance to tell its darker stories. For others, it is a reckless distortion of Karachi’s history, repurposed to stoke Indian nationalism. And for many Baloch viewers, it is another misfire in South Asia’s long record of misrepresenting their culture.

Perhaps no reaction captured this internal conflict better than that of content creator Bilal Hassan, known online as @mystapaki. In an Instagram review, he admitted that Dhu

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