Rashtra Kavach Om movie review: Aditya Roy Kapur-Sanjana Sanghi starrer is yet another addition to films Bollywood has adopted as a safe bet these days, with a hero who has patriotism oozing out of his pores.
We first come upon the valiant Om Rathod (Aditya Roy Kapur) in the middle of a botched covert operation, on a boat somewhere on the deep seas, bristling with ammo and machismo. Bullets are whizzing past noisily, a number of black-suited fellows are being slain, and our hero finds the time to press a button in his ear and intone: There Is A Mole In Our Midst. No, this is not a spy comedy. Maybe it should have been.
Who can the mole be? Is it someone within Om’s department? A sour-faced sari-clad bosswoman who marches about flinging out barbs at everyone? The crafty Prakash Raj, who has been a part of so many similar movies recently that it’s hard to tell them apart? The missing-in-action grey-stubbled Jackie Shroff who has been working on a deadly missile, or something like that? The very voluble Ashutosh Rana, who keeps talking of ‘deshbhakti’, and how ‘rashtra’ (country) is bigger than ‘rakt’ (blood)? Or someone else?
There’s also a younger brigade of spies: can’t have the oldies have the fun, right? This bunch, which has a crack computer expert (Vicky Arora), includes a spry girl (Sanjana Sanghi): why should boys have all the fun? Whenever the plot, which embraces its hare-brainedness with enthusiasm, needs a diversion, we get bits of action involving this lot. The winsome Sanghi is totally out of place here, even as she is given a couple of scenes in which she kicks, chops, and shoots. Like the millennials say, kuchch bhi.
But this is Bollywood. Can’t have a movie without a maa, right? Prachee Shah Paandya plays the tearful mother to the hilt, not looking much older than her movie son. When Roy Kapur is not nestling in the bosom of his family, he is living up to the film’s florid statement of being a ‘mazboot yoddha’ (strong soldier) not a ‘kamzor beta’ (weak son). See, the very hard-working Om is not just an Indian soldier, he is also a ‘rashtriya kavach’ (life-saving shield), so beware. International arms dealers, greedy traitors, and other assorted bad guys quake when Om switches to his Arnie avataar, biceps bulging, heavy machine guns roaring, rampaging through enemy hideouts, blowing up machinery and men. Phew.
Rashtra Kavach Om movie cast: Aditya Roy Kapur, Sanjana Sanghi, Ashutosh Rana, Jackie Shroff, Prakash Raj, Prachee Shah Paandya, Vicky Arora
Rashtra Kavach Om movie director: Kapil Varma
Rashtra Kavach Om movie rating: 1.5 stars
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