Directed by : Siddharth Anand
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7430722/

Jai jai shivshankar, aaj mood hai bhayankar.. 


Spoilers ahead..


The basic premise is about a patriotic soldier  Khalid (Tiger Shroff) who is given a mission to kill Kabir (Hrithik Roshan), his former mentor who has suddenly gone rogue.

Till the 1st half, I was quite happy with the movie, managed to somehow ignore the many irritating elements that are still part of this 1st half, namely the over-use of slow motions (I will get tired of referring to this stupid love affair our filmmakers have). I get it that you need the entry scenes of superstars get whistled so slow motion gives more time, which again is pretty stupid but whats bizarre is when you keep doing it again and again, even in the action scenes. Also the action sequences weren't impressive and at times gave repetitive feeling. 

But I was still fine with all those problems, it was Naina's (Vaani Kapoor) character and the plastic surgery plot they bring in 2nd half that just makes me lose all my interest. Only scene of Naina that was likeable was when she says 'mera dil tootne wala hai na' but that too doesn't totally work as I was never invested in her character, it comes out as something added just for some glamor. Why would you build half of movie based on Khalid's loyalty for his country, showing his past where his dad was a traitor and got killled by Kabir. And now we are shown Khalid is dead and another traitor, from Kabir's team has plastic surgery to have same face as Khalid. Whats funny is, he has same mannerisms, same kind of fighting style, almost a ditto copy of Khalid, because its a film based on suspension of belief I assume. 

Now to the best part of movie, which is undeniably Hrithik Roshan, and I don't mean just his performance, but he just makes you adore him every time he is in the frame even if he is given a average/bad dialogue or he is asked to dance in a song that was never needed to be inserted in narrative (Guilty pleasure, I did love Jai Jai Shiv Shankar, it still was a song only meant for end-credits). In short, with all the flaws around the story, narrative and other actors, Hrithik holds his own and never gives me a reason to criticise him.

Tiger Shroff is wonderful as always in his dance and action sequences, his acting is still here and there. His character getting killed off, does give him scope to perform the grey side for a change in that plastic surgery act and he does it pull it off quite nicely.

War would appeal certainly to Hrithik-Tiger fans (thats a given), but for neutrals like me, its just a decent one time watch, full of loving as well as cringeworthy moments. 

My Rating : 5/10