No knock on Prabhas fans, who dub him the ‘Rebel Star’. Yet, to have an entire three-hour-plus movie, where everyone around the hero is as pointless as the ‘zero’ button of a ceiling fan, must mean a lotta pressure to deliver, when the point of it is basically hot air

I could watch Ikkis twice. The one thing you observe in Ikkis, decidedly a war film; makes no mistake, is the immersive, claustrophobic insides of a bloody battle-tank as the Indian Army advances across the border