1959th BLOG POST
Unfortunately,
I have not liked Siddharth Malhotra as an actor ever. I have never understood
why girls are crazy about him but whenever I have watched his film, I have
always found him less than what he could have done. Therefore, when the movie,
Shershaah, was announced which is based on the life and death of Captain Vikram
Batra who helped us get back one of the toughest mountain peaks back from
Pakistan’s claws in the Kargil War of 1999. He is a superhero since then and I
don’t think anyone doesn’t know about him. There are already two Hindi movies
based on him such as Lakshya and LOC Kargil so I was very sceptic as to what
new Shershaah will offer and will Siddharth be able to take-off such an
important character.
Yesterday,
I watched it on the very first day on Amazon Prime of which I am pretty sure
that if the movie must have been released in theatres, the impact of it would
have been more than what it is on the OTT platform. The best part about the
writing and script has been the humanization of the character of a soldier as
much as possible rather than showing as someone who are meant to sacrifice and
leave everything behind as they have chosen this for themselves. We are shown Vikram
as someone who likes enjoying with friends, dating a girl, fighting with her
family for their relationship, smoking cigarette, being a charmer and everything
that your next-door-boy must be like.
Even
when he gets into the Army, he doesn’t get transformed immediately into a very
serious guy but remains to be very cool but focused on his responsibility of
fighting for his country without fearing about death. You will not find many
melodramatic scenes here unlike the kind of Soldier movies that we see. Though
the romantic songs in the movie are something you don’t intend to watch but
still they are a nice inclusion as it makes the portrayal of a patriotic movie
little different than others where you only see the partner crying in song
while leaving their better half for the Battle or War.
The
dialogues are powerful in the movie as they convey the agenda behind it clearly.
The songs are soulful, and they will find place in your playlist. The locations
and shots are cinematic as you feel you are at the location, or you would wish
to backpack and leave for mountains. Every scene is so aesthetically beautiful
that you would want to frame each of them. The casting is great as everyone in
their role looked perfect and not a single actor is out of sync with their character.
I liked the background music but sometimes they make it little tough for you to
hear what the characters are speaking among themselves in whispering tone. Also,
I felt that the dubbing of the voice is not nicely synched with the video in
few scenes as you can identify the gap between the movement of lips and the
words spoken by the actors.
Talking
about the lead performances, Siddharth Malhotra does well. As far as my belief
goes – this is his career-best performance and touching something like this again
is going to be tough for him. He makes you completely believe in the charming
personality of the character who turns from a die-hard romantic boy to a Lieutenant
and finally ends up being Captain in the Indian Army. Kiara Advani, as always,
makes her screen presence felt and you would want to keep watching her whenever
she is performing. There is something about her that makes her acceptable in every
role she performs – either major or minor.
Overall,
this is not a very machoism kind of a movie where you would want to become the
lead character yourself and do the task. This is written and directed in a way
that makes everything look and sound grounded. So, you’ll not find that Josh of
URI or emotional quotient like Border but a very different portrayal of Indian
Army’s efforts to win a War. Also, what kind of effort Batra made to get into
the Army is completely missing from the script. I give this movie 3.5 stars out
of 5. It is a one-time watch for sure.
Thanks.
WRITING BUDDHA
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