This film probably works for audience who are SRK fans / from the North or both. Atlee's storytelling was weak, key scenes and plotlines, as usual, reminded me of other movies and oddly, Atlee's old movies. I don't know why he gets to make such big budget movies with a weak plot, stitched together by taking 20 - 30 references from very successful Tamil movies.
I watched with my husband and we both felt like Anirudh wasn't given free reign to work his magic on the film. Music felt uninspired. Sad. Can watch one time, even then was a snore at a lot of parts.