Dhurandhar Shooting Locations Revealed! 5 Spots Where Ranveer Singh’s Spy Thriller Was Filmed

There’s always that one film every year that becomes impossible to escape, not because of marketing noise, but because everyone from your colleague to the Uber driver suddenly has an opinion about it. Dhurandhar is that film! Aditya Dhar’s latest espionage thriller, led by Ranveer Singh, arrived on December 5, 2025, and it hasn’t just entered the conversation; it has taken it hostage.

Its biggest strength? The world it builds is gritty, restless, and constantly shifting. And that world isn’t CGI-constructed. It’s stitched together from real streets, real weather, and real chaos.

Dhurandhar: Stakes, Shades And A Starry Cast

At its core, Dhurandhar unfolds in the shadowy realm of intelligence operations linked to gang networks reportedly inspired by Karachi’s Lyari underworld. Ranveer Singh steps into the role of an operative navigating a minefield of loyalty tests and betrayals. Sharing the screen are Akshaye Khanna, R. Madhavan, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal and Sara Arjun, a lineup enough to leave you starstruck more than once. 

The film has been praised for leaning into realism. Leaked footage during shoot schedules and on-ground reporting revealed everything from actors training in harsh climate zones to street sets built with uncomfortable attention to detail, sometimes so convincingly that crowds mistook them for the real thing.

The Five Locations That Built Dhurandhar’s World

1. Bangkok, Thailand

Shooting kicked off in Bangkok on July 25, 2024, and this wasn’t a postcard-tour stop. Thailand doubled convincingly as Pakistan, specifically the kind of dense Karachi alleys that have a rhythm of their own. Production teams recreated entire neighbourhoods meant to mirror Lyari-style underworld pockets. Bangkok also gave the film something priceless: control, night shoots and sealed streets. All executed with far less red tape than filming in Pakistan would allow! 

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2. Amritsar, Punjab

By November 2024, cameras shifted to Amritsar, a completely different emotional and visual tone. Filming took place around the Golden Temple’s surrounding areas, but not in a tourist-postcard way. Crowd control was intense; local press noted temporary barricades and rerouted foot traffic because the shoot overlapped with peak holiday months. In the film, these sequences function almost like exhale moments; they are still tense, but grounded in a very recognisable Indian cultural texture.

3. Leh-Ladakh

If Bangkok brought precision, Ladakh brought unpredictability. High-altitude shoots tested not just characters, but the crew. Over a hundred team members reportedly fell sick from suspected food contamination during the schedule, briefly halting filming. Another detail leaked during this leg: Akshaye Khanna rehearsed with portable oxygen support because the shoot required physically demanding takes in low-oxygen terrain. The visuals earned the trouble, with raw mountains, stark silence, and a feeling that danger comes from both enemies and the landscape itself.

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4. Madh Island, Mumbai

Before the northern schedules, the team spent weeks on Madh Island, a time filmmaking refuge known for being rustic enough to feel off-grid and close enough to Mumbai to avoid logistical nightmares. Outdoor action sequences, vehicle work and chase movements were filmed here. Madh Island is cinematic in a practical sense, a transitional visual zone where covert plotting feels believable.

5. Khera Village, Ludhiana

Perhaps the most viral moment from the shoot came from Punjab. Residents of Khera village woke up to flags, signage and architecture that suddenly resembled Pakistan, because production had transformed the space into a rural Pakistani setting. Shooting lasted three to four days, and locals later shared that crews modified rooftops, colour palettes and props to get details right. These scenes now appear in the film’s tense escalation segment.

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Dhurandhar could have been shot comfortably inside studio walls with green screens, digital cities, controlled climates, and the usual shortcuts. Instead, the production chose a harder route of move, adapt, rebuild, repeat. The result is a film that feels lived-in, every landscape carrying weight and every backdrop pushing the story rather than levelling it up aesthetically.  It isn’t just a spy thriller that travels; it’s a film that had to travel to become what it is.

Cover Image Courtesy: JioStudios