Yudhra Movie Review: The Yudhra tragedy

YudhraUA Action thrillerDir Ravi UdyawarCast Siddhant Chaturvedi Malavika Mohanan Raghav JuyalRating 15It takes almost an hour for some kinda villain to make an entry in this movie About 45 minutes for the hero to find any sorta purposemdashto his existence on screen let alone life itself Hersquod been plodding through sheer pointless until thenI can understand waiting for a movie to end Can you imagine waiting for the goddamn intervalSpeaking in particular of the interval block in this picmdashitrsquos a cracker nightlight sequence of a shootout on a merchant ship Itrsquos ostensibly set in the Indian Ocean More likely shot on Gautam Adanirsquos Mundra port with bullets flying around containers apparently loaded with cocaineThis is scintillating bigscreen action alright Enough that you sit up take note Only that by this time the movie has so completely slipped through the cracksmdashyou wonder if it makes any sense to return from the popcorn counterTake you to the beginning of this lunacy then As in the opening scene where an Army man calls an IPS officer his subordinatemdashboth of whom among others hang out in uniforms at a party in the Mumbai Police GymkhanaThe uniforms bear stars and IPS on their shoulder epaulettes but MaharashtraMumbai Police on the sleeves This thorough lack of detailing for a copactioner is necessary to highlight Merely because it foretells the randomness to followAlso it tells us a thing or two about how Mumbai Police are the least likely to take needless offence about stuff on screen Never mind being repeatedly portrayed as villains in desi moviesseries Try getting away with anything close to that with the other forces forget communitiesAfter the said Mumbai Police Gym party a prominent officer and his wife get bumped off in a road accident Their baby thereafter grows up as an orphaned childHe picks up a lizard with help of implements in his rsquo90s Camlin yelloworange geometry boxmdashonly piece of warm nostalgia in a pic thatrsquos trying super hard to hearken back to rsquo80s mainstream prologueplotepilogue herovillain revenge dramasThis boy is Yudhra if you must know Hersquos got severe anger management issues One way to deal with it is to channel that anger into national service perhaps Hersquos sent off to ldquoNational Cadate Training AcademyrdquoIgnore the misspelling on screen What exactly is this force that the hero calls the ldquomilitaryrdquo You wonrsquot care once yoursquore certain the filmrsquos a farceBut why must you not care as an audience anyway Because this movie primarily emanates from secondguessing your tastespreferences after allThat genrewise you seek comfort in the predictable it appears How do these filmmakers know this Surveying so many mad actioners especially from the South that killed it at the boxoffice postpandemicTo be fair Yudhra wholly avoids latent misogyny that often frames such blockbusters as well Peeking instead at the Tinder dating culture that the heroine Malavika Mohanan has a go at while being friends with the hero firstTo be fairer still the producers ie Excel Entertainment have put all their might behind highgrade setslocationsproduction design Pumping in crores around which action gets choreographed The film itself is shot like a dream although it plays out more as a disjointed nightmareShridhar Raghavan War Pathaan Tiger 3 has scripted this actioner delivering an altogether breathless narrative Whether or not you connect with any of the characters the plot carries on nonfrickinrsquostop Coproducer Farhan Akhtar has put his head to the dialogues The director Ravi Udyawar debuted with the competent Mom 2017Irsquom at the 9 am show with a R99 ticket given National Cinema Daymdashanother postpandemic phenomenon since 2022 Wherein theatres heavily slashed rates R75 to bring back audiences Itrsquos the one time that the needle moved on multiplex footfalls across the countrySure itrsquos not a packed hall this time on Too early anyway There isnrsquot an established superstar shouldering this heavy enterprise eitherIn any case I suspect there is really no such thing as a proper actionstar Even the biggest onesmdashSanjay Dutt Sunny Deol Salman Khan et almdashsomewhat started out as romantic heroes first Gaining chutzpah over timeAll eyes on the screen then thatrsquos loading the entry of the young hero as he chases bikers down Mumbairsquos Eastern Freeway Whorsquos this Yudhra yoWhat emerges once the helmet is off with literally a lollipop for a prop merging into a Frank Milleresque image is actor Siddhant ChaturvedimdashExcelrsquos farmfresh homegrown talent who fit beautifully into Gully Boy 2019Also as the GenZ standup comedian devoted to onenightstands in Kho Gaye Hum Kahan 2023 I wasnrsquot sure he was quite that dude with the swag to floor Deepika Padukone in Gehraiyaan 2022Further convinced hersquos not really the Bollywood baapkabadla kinda orphaned avengermdashsupposedly thick as a brick skin made of impenetrable steelmdashwith whistleshoots across the hall while he mindlessly bashes the hell out of bumbling baddies one after anotherGod hersquos given it his best To his credit this wouldrsquove been a crappy film Regardless of him

Yudhra Movie Review: The Yudhra tragedy

Yudhra
U/A: Action, thriller
Dir: Ravi Udyawar
Cast: Siddhant Chaturvedi, Malavika Mohanan, Raghav Juyal
Rating: 1/5

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Yudhra Movie Review: The Yudhra tragedy

YudhraU/A: Action, thrillerDir: Ravi UdyawarCast: Siddhant Chaturvedi, Malavika Mohanan, Raghav JuyalRating: 1/5

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Yudhra
U/A: Action, thriller
Dir: Ravi Udyawar
Cast: Siddhant Chaturvedi, Malavika Mohanan, Raghav Juyal
Rating: 1/5