New Delhi, March 31 -- Most action films do not spend much time worrying about their villains. They are there to be defeated. They exist to give the hero something to fight. Their motivations, if they have any at all, are usually thin enough to ignore.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge is not most action films.

The story of Jaskirat Singh Rangi begins in tragedy. After his family is brutalised - his father killed, his sisters assaulted, one of them murdered - he takes his own revenge and finds himself on death row. It is there that IB chief Ajay Sanyal, played by R. Madhavan, walks in and finds a man with nothing left to lose and more anger than he knows what to do with.

Jaskirat wants no part of it. He tells Sanyal plainly that he has no reason...