Pakistani journalist Arif Aajakia said he was born in the Lyari area of Karachi, Pakistan, and that everything shown in Aditya Dhar's directorial 'Dhurandhar' franchise is true. "I was...mayor of a town in Karachi, elected mayor during the period when Dhurandhar was done," ANI quoted Aajakia as saying. Ranveer Singh played an undercover Indian intelligence agent in the franchise.