Yoda Review | Even an earnest Siddharth Malhotra can’t save this illogical nationalistic torture

The second half of Dharma Productions’ new film Yodha, directed by Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha, has a lot of action scenes in an airplane, giving the impression that they are serious about making a movie. action movie. But even a good action movie is a product of a good script. Aside from Siddharth Malhotra playing the character with panache and some well-choreographed action, Yodha is the same patriotic package that Bollywood is obsessed with.

Arun Katyal is a soldier in this special force called Task Force Yoda. It’s a branch of the military started by his late father. Arun, known for not following his orders, ultimately had to pay the price for failing to save VIPs from a plane hijacking. A few years later, another plane hijacking occurred and this time Arun was on board in a different role. What happens on that journey is what we see in Yoda.

The trailer and teaser of the film hint that Arun may fall into cheating due to the system failing him earlier. Well, we all have the common sense to guess that he wouldn’t actually do that bad, and Sagar Ambre, who wrote this movie, has no ambition to surprise us by making him the bad guy. there is no. The writing here is very flat and relies heavily on the execution of the action scenes. There’s the usual “how he became a soldier” backstory, featuring some cheesy lines from his father. An obviously romantic track then plays, and finally the film enters the hijacking phase. As I said, some of the action in this movie is great. The fistfight that took place on the plane during the second hijacking, with the actors fighting inside the swirling plane, was brilliantly directed. But the problem is that it feels like they constructed some kind of story to make this set piece work.

Spoiler alert! After Shershah, the way Siddharth Malhotra has played action parts in movies has improved a lot and that really helps Yoda a lot. He looks believable as the NSG equivalent of Yoda. The romantic parts of the movie were too cheesy, but there wasn’t much we could tolerate. Raashi Khanna plays the role of Priyamvada Katiyar, Arun’s partner. Despite holding a prominent position in the same profession, Priyamvada Katiyal surprisingly doesn’t know much about Arun’s professional life. Disha Patani, who plays flight attendant Laila, is beautiful and I loved how she transformed into an action star with some not-so-surprising twists related to the character. The talented Sunny Hinduja bagged an unforgettable role as the main antagonist of the film.

Sagar Ambre’s imagination defies logic on many levels and is outrageous on paper. An Indian plane lands on a main road in Islamabad and an Indian soldier single-handedly rescues his wife and the Indian Prime Minister from Pakistani soil. After a fairly tolerable abuse of logic in the airplane chapter, Ambre and Ojha are going the Baggi way with excessive patriotism. There are scenes at the beginning and end of the movie where the protagonist uses a tricolor smoke bomb to signify India’s victory. The visual effects by Red Chillies VFX are inconsistent, and his CGI is evident in some scenes, as the script itself does not take physics into account.

If the visuals of Indian soldiers walking in slow motion with tricolor smoke grenades after killing a number of terrorists in an Islamabad building give you goosebumps, then this movie might be for you. For the rest of us who are tired of ultra-nationalist torture, Yoda is an unforgettable action movie starring some serious Siddharth Malhotra.