{"id":5506,"date":"2016-06-19T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2016-06-19T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:01:16","slug":"war-review-action-entertainer-that-reinvents-hrithik-roshan-tiger-shroff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5506","title":{"rendered":"War Review: A Glorious Bollywood Action Entertainer that Reinvents Hrithik Roshan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ast year, Yash Raj Films, arguably Bollywood\u2019s most powerful legacy production studio, boasted three film releases. There was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/jabariya-jodi-review-parineeti-chopra-sidharth-malhotra\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sidharth Malhotra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hichki<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which engineered Rani Mukherji\u2019s comeback to Hindi films after four years, Sharat Katariya\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sui Dhaaga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a follow-up from one of the most assured directorial voices of this decade, and Vijay Krishna Acharya\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/thugs-of-hindostan-review-aamir-khan-amitabh-bachchan\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thugs of Hindostan<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, YRF\u2019s most expensive outing that unfortunately also turned out to be its biggest disaster. In their own way, all three films were bogged down by the trademark YRF problem: its insistence on sacrificing imagination at the altar of embarrassingly lavish budgets. But the failure of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thugs of Hindostan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in particular, had even deeper repercussions. It underlined the risk of the studio\u2019s growing irrelevance, its inability to adapt to the demands of a millennial audience, and presumably left it with no other option than to recalibrate its strategy.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps that explains why the first YRF release in 2019 comes in October, almost a year after <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thugs of Hindostan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It seems to have paid off. Siddharth Anand\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a glorious return to form; an unadulterated resuscitation of both the Bollywood action genre and YRF\u2019s propensity to mount a mainstream entertainer that shocks, surprises, and entertains in equal measure. More importantly, it betrays the studio\u2019s willingness to confront its own weaknesses and strip itself off excess. Essentially, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is what you get when YRF decides to go to therapy.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was initially announced last year, it was easy to dismiss the film as generic fan-service that would put as much thought to its plot as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/half-girlfriend-complete-moron-the-anatomy-of-a-chetan-bhagat-heroine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chetan Bhagat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reserves for the titles of his books. For one, the film\u2019s existence seemed centered entirely around managing the coup of bringing together Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff \u2013 an actor who has visibly modelled himself on Roshan&#8217;s traits. Between the two of them, there existed endless possibilities for Anand to get away with making the film all about attention-grabbing dance-offs and insulting displays of core strength.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A year later, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">features both these things. And yet it is also so much more. Written by Shridhar Raghavan and Anand (the dialogues are by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/jaane-tu-ya-jaane-na-imran-khan-genelia-dsouza\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Abbas Tyrewala and Aditya Chopra is co-credited for the story), the movie stands out for not taking the action genre for granted. In the recent past, action films (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baaghi, Satyameva Jayate<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) have resorted to using the genre only as a means to an end \u2013 to service either an underdog tale or a performance of nationalism. But <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes its action seriously and refuses to overplay its hand. It remains acutely aware of its strengths (which involves using Shroff in such a limited way that he is tolerable) and is at once, pulpy, stylish, racy, and surprisingly intelligent. The result is a homegrown action entertainer that strives to prove that a mainstream film can be engrossing and fun without being obligated to underestimate the audience\u2019s intelligence.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><em>War<\/em> takes its action seriously and refuses to overplay its hand. It remains acutely aware of its strengths.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The premise of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is straightforward: Kabir (Hrithik Roshan, coming the closest to essaying a Greek God), a former soldier, has suddenly gone rogue and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Khalid (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/features\/meerkat-challenged-tiger-shroff-to-a-fight-on-twiitter-kia-motors-car-ad\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiger Shroff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) volunteers to hunt him down, ensuing a chase that spans across Delhi, Iraq, Malta, Portugal, Kerala, and even the Arctic Circle. As is expected, the plot is littered with flashbacks, evil gangsters, betrayals, a generous withholding of information, and a climactic plot twist that in hindsight, will seem nothing short of genius.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For much of its 156-long-runtime, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels, foremost like a carnival of flexibility: Shroff\u2019s introduction is an action sequence (a frenetic three minute one-take hand-to-hand combat scene that shifts from a room to a <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/humour\/swimming-coach-camp-water-monsters-strict\/\">swimming pool<\/a>), where his legs do all the <a href=\"http:\/\/acting\">acting<\/a>. They are ably backed up by Roshan\u2019s calf strength over the next two hours. Even then, it takes a while to get used to the fact that no one walks in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Instead they stretch, run, jump, kick, attempt backflips, glide around poles, and bend their bodies in ways that would seem infuriating if it didn\u2019t look so irresistible.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film&#8217;s charm is aided by the fact that both the actors share an electric chemistry and the action set-pieces<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thrill with their fluid choreography, and occasional ingenuity. Anand shoots the portions (the cinematography is by Benjamin Jasper) that have Roshan and Shroff with an urgency that delivers on the hype built around both the actors share the frame. There\u2019s Roshan riding a bike through fire, Shroff making the act of dodging bullets look like <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/sports\/roger-federer-fans-2019-us-open-loss-djokovic-nadal\/\">ballet<\/a> in slow-motion, and Roshan driving a jeep out of a plane that has caught fire <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a delicious arrogance that is worth the price of admission. These are ridiculously laughable scenarios on paper and yet <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> translates them in a way that makes it nearly impossible to take your eyes off the screen. It\u2019s been a while since a Bollywood film has made action look this inviting.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prime reason that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wholehearted commitment to irreverence feels rewarding despite its several flaws (the two women have nothing to do, the conveniences keep stacking up, and Shroff gives all of one expression in most scenes) is single handedly due to Hrithik Roshan. As Kabir, Roshan plays an elevated, broodier version of Aryan in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/humour\/happy-birthday-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-abhishek-bachhan-amitabh-bachchan-sunheri-dhoom-2\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhoom 2<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, turning in an enjoyably hammy performance that isn\u2019t too self-conscious of his reputation. In scene after scene, he does so much while doing so little: there\u2019s a slight glare here, a sly smirk there, seamlessly synthesised with a body language that ekes out confidence in cockiness.\u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><em>War<\/em> is a reminder of the joys of letting overgrown men fight and hunt down enemies simply because that is what men sometimes want to do.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his hands, Kabir becomes a physical embodiment of swag, as if he is a gust of wind on a warm sunny day \u2013 a rewarding evidence of Roshan\u2019s potential as an action hero (The film teases a sequel, which might necessarily not be a bad thing). In more ways than one, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">then, feels like a reinvention of Hrithik Roshan as we knew him. Not only does the actor benefit from playing a character closer to his <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/nazar-na-lage-parents-oversharing-childrens-pictures-on-social-media\/\">age<\/a>, but he also seems to be genuinely invested in essaying someone who is divorced from serving romantic sub-plots or dramatic outbursts.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> War\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> biggest asset is that the film knows its worth. It is best evidenced in its steadfast reluctance to pander to chest-thumping nationalism or exaggerated masculinity. For a film that is packaged as a harmless entertainer, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bellies expectations with a nuanced commentary on religion and the price of <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/mulk-patriotism-muslim-india\/\">patriotism<\/a>. The film features both Hindu and Muslim protagonists and the makers subvert the trope of a Muslim protagonist being asked to prove their allegiance to the country by sneakily subscribing to it.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the distance that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">covers can be aptly summed up in one scene: <em>Baaghi 2<\/em>, last year\u2019s biggest action entertainer, featured a distasteful scene that had its lead, an army officer, tie a stone-pelter to his jeep as a human shield. In the climax of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a lookalike of <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/omung-kumra-director-pm-narendra-modi-elections-vivek-oberoi\/\">Narendra Modi<\/a> is made to acknowledge and celebrate the selfless contributions of a Muslim soldier toward protecting India in front of his widowed mother. It\u2019s a subtle but terrific indictment.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But more than anything, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels like a long over-due reminder of the joys of films letting overgrown <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/music\/u2-rockband-rock-concert\/\">men<\/a> fight, kick, shoot, and hunt down enemies simply because that is what men sometimes want to do. It is the kind of film that thrives on reducing the distance between a critic and an audience. This is best reflected in a scene where Arati (Anupriya Goenka) jokes about wanting to elope with Roshan\u2019s Kabir. Shroff\u2019s Khalid replies with a smug \u201cGet in line.\u201d Roshan simply smiles. 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