Akshaye Khanna's Dhurandhar Role: Real Rehman Dakait, Lyari's Gangster Who Played Football with Heads
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Dhurandhar: Akshaye Khanna as Rehman Dakait, The Gangster Who Played Football with Heads
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News18•08-12-2025, 21:27
Dhurandhar: Akshaye Khanna as Rehman Dakait, The Gangster Who Played Football with Heads
•Akshaye Khanna is trending for his role as Rehman Dakait in the film 'Dhurandhar', despite Ranveer Singh being the lead.
•'Dhurandhar' is based on real events in Lyari, Karachi, depicting Indo-Pakistani counter-terrorism operations against criminal gangs.
•Khanna portrays Rehman Baloch, a notorious gangster who, with his cousin Uzair Baloch, ruled Lyari in the late 2000s.
•The real Rehman Dakait, Sardar Abdul Rehman Baloch, was a Pakistani gangster known for extreme cruelty, including associates playing football with severed heads.
•Rehman Dakait was killed in a police encounter in August 2009 at 34, after which his cousin Uzair Baloch took over the gang.
Why It Matters: This story reveals the brutal reality of a real-life gangster through cinema.
