Jodha Review: Unbearably Scrappy Thriller
Equipped with a stray screen that fires a string of blanks, warrior Fought a losing battle. The titular hero is a de-rostered soldier from an isolated task force who goes nowhere on a commercial plane. He is on a mission to seek revenge and redemption.
Co-director Sagar Ambre’s screenplay weaves through the pandemonium unleashed by wobbly planes and failing hydraulics. everything in between warriorAn unbearably scrappy thriller, a wonderful blur. Figuring out what’s going on is best left to soldiers who don’t fear the unimaginable.
Early in the film, the hero walks out of a deep river with a smoke bomb in his hand. It emits the three colors of the national flag. The guy sure knows the trick to keeping smoke-blasts dry in water. He does one better in the climax with another triangle-shaped smoke bomb that survives an explosion and a full-blown inferno.
No matter how humble you want to be and how much of a Sidharth Malhotra fan you are, this pulpy action movie is a bumpy ride that goes from one misstep to the next.
In warriorPassenger planes are mere playthings in the hands of commandos and terrorists. They can access the cargo hold from the cabin at will, which as anyone who knows planes will tell you, is simply not possible.
Lots of work in between warriorDirected by Ambre and Pushkar Ojha, unfolds in the passenger cabin of an airplane and the space below it. The film finally ends in an Islamabad building called Jinnah Hall where peace talks are taking place between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan. There are no prizes for guessing, a terrorist plot is underway to sabotage negotiations because war, thundering opponents is a business.
Passengers on the plane piloted by the hero are on the receiving end of a yarn that hits severe turbulence and goes into an endless tailspin. They can only shriek in terror at the rabbit-like, ham-fisted lows that Jodha and his flying machine descend on. The film revels in blowing logic and pushing common sense.
warrior A highly trained soldier who is wronged by the system is meant to be a showcase for exploitation. He’s made a scapegoat to kill a VIP – a nuclear scientist, no less – on a hijacked flight. His unit, the elite Jodha Task Force, made up of the best soldiers of the Army, Navy and Air Force, has been unceremoniously axed and people transferred to other posts without your leave.
Arun Katyal (Siddharth Malhotra), son of a martyr, refuses to admit that he was at fault. He bids his time to recover his lost glory and come back. When his time comes, he ends up on a flight from Delhi to London in a mysterious way that keeps everyone on board guessing. If the idea is to shock the audience, warrior A successful film has a scene that makes sense.
In a brief introduction, the body of a fallen soldier, Surender Katyal (Ranit Roy in a cameo), is brought home in a wooden container. On the Indo-Bangladesh border, where Arun Katyal tracks down a group of bad guys (they could be smugglers or infiltrators or terrorists, there’s no way to know) and summarily exterminates them.
This initial sequence is clearly meant to establish how Arun Katyal works – he doesn’t believe in negotiating or issuing warnings before pulling the trigger. Yes, he takes no prisoners and waits for orders. A streak of impatience gets him into trouble.
The sloppy screenplay fails to create any sort of believable context for the methods the protagonist uses, let alone why the young man is forever doomed to a confrontation where a little coercion might have sufficed.
Everything is completely personal for patriotism. He is a soldier because his father gave his life for the nation. The senior bureaucrat who deposes against him after a botched mission is Priyamvada Katyal (Rashi Khanna), his wife. He was punished for breaking the chain of command. Worse, Priyamvada, putting the nation before herself, files for divorce.
A family friend and colleague of Arun’s (Tanuj Birwani) – he is Keble Khan, a token good Muslim that no patriotic-loving thriller like this could do without – tries in vain to talk the couple out of their decision.
Arun Katyal’s life and career are in shambles as he—again we can only assume so based on the information holes the script throws at us—has a score to settle with a terrorist who pushed him out of a few planes years ago into a black hole that continues to haunt him.
In a hijack situation, the plane’s head purser (Disha Patani) struts around like a catwalk model until she’s ready to reveal her true colors and jump into the thick of the action. The first officer in the cockpit also has plans that surprise the hero. There are several all-out fights between aisles, toilets and cargo holds even as the plane loses altitude and goes astray.
And an intern on board – he claims to have 200 hours of flying experience – is forced to take control of the plane when the crisis escalates. Don’t try to put two and two together because nothing warrior Stacking up actually adds up.
Expecting Siddharth Malhotra to pull out of this mess is too much. He jumps around, runs, throws punches, shoots around and holds his ground as bedlam erupts around him – mostly of his own making – but the actor can’t rise above the noise. warrior is
As for the other actors in the cast, they go through the motions. Their faces give nothing. Is this the bravery? No, it’s a sign that they, like the audience, are clueless.
