If you are looking to walk in the footsteps of Ranveer Singh and the cast of Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar — and its sequel, you’re in for a journey that spans spiritual heritage, high-altitude deserts and international hubs. The film’s sequel, Dhurandhar: The Revenge, continues the story across several of the same gorgeous locations.
Punjab provides the cultural and emotional core of the film. The Golden Temple in Amritsar anchors several of the film’s most reflective sequences. A short drive away, Khera Village in Ludhiana served an altogether different purpose. The production team allegedly transformed it into a stand-in for a Pakistani border settlement. For visitors it offers something increasingly rare: an authentically untouristy slice of rural Punjabi life, without a heritage trail in sight. Back in Amritsar, Lal Kothi and the city’s main bus stand were pressed into service for the film’s grittier urban scenes — their older, lived-in streetscapes providing exactly the worn aesthetic that studio sets struggle to fake.
When the narrative demanded isolation, endurance and a landscape that felt genuinely inhospitable, the production headed north to Ladakh.
Gurudwara Patthar Sahib, set into a hillside on the Srinagar-Leh highway, served as a primary filming location. Further along the plateau, the production made use of Pangong Tso and the region’s high-altitude roads.
The film’s Mumbai sequences are scattered across the city in ways that reward the determined ‘set-jetting’ tourist. Ballard Estate and the Fort district in South Mumbai provided the European-style colonnaded architecture and narrow lanes required for the film’s operation scenes. Out on the city’s northwestern fringes, Madh Island doubled as a setting for hidden lair and coastal sequences. Its fishing villages and secluded beaches sit at an serene location from the metropolis just across the creek and the island retains a sleepy, unhurried quality that makes it worth a half-day excursion regardless of its cinematic credentials.