Shaurya : Movie Review

I am back to Mumbai after a weeklong vacation. As always, I decided to relax by indulging into my favourite activity and walked into my favourite theatre-Adlabs. I had not decided on the movie to watch. In fact I was keen on watching D-War. But the timings forced me to take tickets of this not so greatly publicised movie- Shaurya.

Cast: Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Javed Jaffery, Minissha Lamba, Deepak Dobriyal e.t.c.

Director: Samar Khan

Plot:

Siddhant Chaudhary ( Rahul ) and Akash Kapoor ( Javed Jaffery) are officers in Indian Army and fast friends. The army appoints Akash as prosecuting officer in case of court martial of a junior officer Javed Khan (Deepak Dobriyal). The charges on him are that he killed his senior officer during one of the search operations in Poonchh village in Kashmir on point blank range.

Akash asks siddhant to take up the defence side so that he can easily argue and win the case. Rahul Bose is initially seen to be very careless and indifferent kind of officer. Minissha Lamba acts as a journalist who investigates the actual case of Javed Khan. She ridicules Siddhant when she finds that he didn't even had any details of the case which he was supposed to defend. This pulls Siddhant deep into the case where he realises that he was being very casual. The movie slowly sees him becoming more devoted officer in persuit of geeting justice to Javed Khan. In this course he meets Brig. Pratap (Kay Kay) and he has to call him to court as Kay Kay Menon was the main stirrer who had framed Javed Khan into court martial. Siddhant goes through an elightenment phase after which he devotes himself completely to defend Javed Khan.

Strengths : Kay Kay Menon, Deepak Dobriyal

This movie is loosely inspired from the famous hollywood flick " A Few Good Men". And one man who does splendid job is Kay Kay Menon. I wonder when indians will recognise this man's talent. I have not missed a single movie of this man and I feel he is one of the real actors in industry.

Shaurya is another feather in his cap.

Another man who needs a brief mention is Deepak dobriyal who portrays the dejected Javed Khan. Thought the role is very small, but he is able to deliver impact in his charachter.

Weakness:

Another bollywood flick "inspired" from hollywood. This is my personal opinion as I saw many sequences in movie as repeat telecast of " A few good men". For a person who has not seen AFGM, Shaurya is an issue based movie. For me, its a movie which wanted to do an "A Few Good Movie" but just to play safe, brought in the issue of communalism in Indian Defence. The screenplay was average. Few songs , which seemed to be forced into the plot, were pathetic.

Similarities between "A few good men" and "Shaurya":

Story of defence court martial, the hero inexperienced lawyer, the hero son of a famous defence officer, the villain being a pure sadist and highbrow guy, lady factor in movie who initially has friction with hero but later cooperate closely to solve the case......e.t.c.

Overall a good movie for general crowd. I doubt that this will be a box office success as the publicity has not been a forte of this flick.

My ratings :

Originality - 0.5 star

Acting - 4.5 stars for Kay Kay .....2.5 stars for rest

Songs- 0.5 stars

Direction - 3.5 stars

Overall - 3 stars

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