Shaurya movie rating and review

Shaurya (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Rating :

Acting – 8/10
Direction – 6/10
Screenplay – 3/10
Music – 3/10
Technique – 6/10

Review :

Truth be told

Can you handle the truth? Samara Khan’s Shaurya is an adaptation of Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Man. You can not blame him. No one turned up at the airport for Samar’s debut Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye. Also, sometime you love a film so mach, you just have to get it out of your system. Your own way. That is why Shaurya is an adaptation and quite an intelligent one at that. Not a lousy designer copy, as Race was of Goodbye Lover. If you have had “the courage to face the truth”, watch Shaurya.

Set in the army, as opposed to the navy in the original, the film is about an inept army lawyer Siddhanth (Rahul) forced to defend an army captain Javed Khan (Dobriyal) accused of killing a fellow army man. Thanks to a local Srinagar reporter Kavya (Manissha) Rahul has boys-to-man transformation.

And then there’s Kay Kay Menon as Brigadier Pratap. It may sound blasphemous but Kay Kay sometimes does Jack Nicholson better than Jack Nicholson. In the history of cinema there have been some rare occasions when an actor has appeared for a scene or two and left an indelible mark. Kay Kay does something like that in Shaurya. He is just go two and a half scenes but that is reason enough to spend two and a half hours in the hall.

It is not that the other actors are below par. Manissha Lamba is a revelation. The Kashmir climate sure does something to the Yahaan girl. She is the new Preity Zinta and does a better job of playing a journo-at-war than the dimpled darling did in Lakshya. If you have not seen Tom Cruise in a Few Good Men, you just may like Rahul Bose. He is better in the lighter scene but then you can again only gawk and gape when Kay Kay is tearing you apart. Deepak Dobriyal creates an enigmatic Javed Khan who has all but two lines in the entire film. His last freeze-frame is sure to stay with you.

Shaurya deserves a dekko—and a better marketing campaign. The promos without a taste of the Kay Kay thunder need to be court-martialled.

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