If anyone was still harbouring any doubts, going loudly patriotic is the safest route to wash off your past sins: in this Sidharth Malhotra-led, Dharma Productions-produced airplane hijack drama, even the rescue flare releases the three colours of the ‘tiranga’. Clap, clap.
Sidharth Malhotra plays Arun Katyal, a crack soldier of the Yodha unit, which has been assembled to make things right whenever they go wrong. And as far as the writers of this film are concerned, if you are in a plane, things are guaranteed to plummet. After a royally muffed-up first round, our hero gets a chance to fix things, and the poor passengers are once again tossed about (the plane goes upside down, gasp), the bad guys are bearded and have Muslim names, the destination is Islamabad, and the plan (double gasp) is to blow up the peace process between, yes, you’ve guess that right, India and Pakistan.
You can accuse me of letting all cats out of the bag, but I can’t keep these jaw-dropping deets of this totally hair-brained enterprise all to myself any longer: I mean, have you seen not just one but two aircrafts with carpets just waiting to pulled aside and a flap raised easily enough for the passengers to go up and down to the hold? No? Thought not.
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And then the film offers up a twist by saying see, see, we’re not bigoted; some Pakistanis are good people; it’s only those pesky terrorists who are to blame. The chief baddie gets to intone– ‘agar shaanti aa gayi toh hamaara kya hoga’, or words to that effect—while using bombs to blow up things.
But worry not. Our Yodha, bravely bearing the scars of his failure in professional and personal areas, is at hand. A separation from spouse-cum- top-notch bureaucrat (Raashii Khanna) is a sore to be scratched, even as he goes full tilt at the rescue operation, dealing with a svelte air-hostess (Disha Patani) who is hiding something, and a newbie pilot in the hot-seat, and ends up on a pacifist note right in the heart of our neighbouring nation.
You may or may not emerge unscathed from this cartoonish rigmarole, but our Yodha, fittingly, gets off with the best line in the movie: iss picture ka hero main hoon. Clap, clap.
Yodha movie cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Raashii Khanna, Disha Patani, Ronit Roy, Tanuj Virwani
Yodha movie directors: Sagar Ambre, Pushkar Ojha
Yodha movie star rating: 1.5 stars
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