Warning: Spoilers ahead!!
The movie was around 2 hours 10 minutes long, but I was at the edge of my seat almost for the entire time. The way the movie is broken into Chapters like Tarantino style, makes it easier to link events and understand the background building up to the actual surgical strike.
The casting tried to resemble even appearance of the respective individuals.
Ajit Doval (Played by Paresh Rawal)
Manohar Parrikar (Played by Yogesh Soman)
Which looks more realistic to whoever who knows the actual background of the surgical strike.
The film definitely keeps you adrenaline running, be it the dialogues or the action sequences.
Farz aur farzi mein bas ek maatra ka antar hota hai. Agar main apne desh, apne bhaiyon ke liye ab nahi lada, toh main apne hi nazar mein farzi ban ke reh jaunga.
(There is not much difference in the way we write duty and useless. If I don’t stand up for my country and my brothers now, I might as well become useless in my eyes.)
Yeh Hindostan ab chup nahi baithega, yeh naya Hindostan hai, yeh ghar me ghusega bhi, aur maarega bhi.
(This India will not remain silent, for it is the new India, it will kill the terrorists in their own home, an eye for an eye.)
Unhe Kashmir chahiye, aur hamein unka sar!
(They want Kashmir. And we want their head!)
Waqt aa gaya hai khoon ka badla khoon se lene ka. Indian Army ne yeh jung shuru nahi ki thi, but we will bloody hell finish it.
(Time has come to avenge blood by blood. Indian Army did not start this war, but we will blood hell finish it.)
And the most iconic.
How’s the Josh? (How is the morale?)
High Sir!
Goosebumps, every time.
Coming to the innovative ideas, the eagle drone, was quite impressive, though fictional. Using the drone to reece the terrain ahead, before crossing it, was another sly technique to minimize casualties.
Paresh Rawal cracking his phone cracked me up every time.
Got some Zero Dark Thirty vibes with night vision and all, but it was used adequately. And taking the cave route was also a clever example of ‘improvise, adapt, overcome.’
The actual strike sequence was also well planned and executed in a quite organized fashion.
And this legendary shot when Vicky Kaushal sticks a C-4 on a terrorist and simply walks off.
When the guys had trouble getting back,
Pilot Seerat comes to the rescue spectacularly,
and goes guns blazing like,
and the whole movie hall cheers loudly.
And the final all-knuckle Boss fight, which takes your adrenaline to the max.
The movie is a great watch, sticks to the facts and keeps you on the edge of the seat till the end. Overall, a must watch.
Jai Hind. (Long live mother India.)
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