Ram

I write this review with actual experience in the Army. The film is good. After a long time our civilian brothers and sisters get a feel of how modern our Armed Forces are today. When the NSA requests for 24 x 7 satellite time we realize that today we are a strong modern country. Used to the steady diet of innoccous car flips and toy guns they see for the first time the fire power of a AK 47 in realistic footage and our powerful choppers at close range. The term commando has now become ubiquitious in our lexicon. Well only the Special Forces of the Armed Forces as shown in the film are the real deal. Many of our citizens dont even know what SF means and this film will hopefully motivate youngsters to aspire to be such. The film also shows our young women in powerful careers like a Int agent or a Air Force pilot. Both the actresses carry off their roles with restraint and dignity. There is no trace of being unnecessarily coy or trying to be feminine. You see a modern Indian woman at her job. Such roles should hopefully motivate milions of young women to don the uniform. While sometimes a bit loud in the dialogues, credit has to be given to thr the director who has really done well in authentically showing the terrain correctly and the uniforms worn by the officers. These are important because 99 percent of our film directors never take such pains. Certainly there is room for improvement but one can say that finally our war movies are coming of age. The star of the movie has to be Vicky Kaushal . Looking every inch a SF officer , he rarely ever goes overboard in his histrionics or is superflous in his emotions considering his profession. He holds the film together alongwith able support from the efficient Yami Gautam and solemn Kirti Kulhari . Paresh Rawal does a decent job of playing the NSA .

A fairly average script with the actors trying their best to do justice to it. Lynchian actress Naomi Watts is a powerhouse for dark roles but then you need to be a director par excellence with a script to match it. Be that as it may the poignancy revealed in Watts eyes when she stares into empty spaces in the night takes us into darker corners of our own. The risks taken by a trained Stanford educated shrink on openly meeting characters known through her patients risking banishment from a secure medical profession seems farfetched . However considering it is targeted to tittilate a growing audience enamoured by being casual voyeurs into the private lives of contemporary society it does a fairly good job.Overall an above average series.