I got to catch the latest flick involving Akshay Kumar this week. And this one had a storyline.
Holiday: A soldier is never off duty had got reasonably good reviews and I wanted to watch this one.
As the name suggests, the movie is about a soldier i.e. Akshay Kumar, and his home coming from the army for a vacation.
The purpose of the holiday is to see a potential bride, i.e. Sonakshi Sinha.
The holiday however goes unlike anything planned as he involuntarily gets involved at the scene of a terror incident. Seeing the police inaction and inability to cope up with the situation, he decides to take matter into his own hands and kidnaps the terrorist.
Soon enough he comes up with a plan involving his colleagues wherein they foil a major terror attack together, thereby angering the mastermind behind the attacks.
The movie revolves around the concept of 'sleeper cells' who are terrorists that work without knowing the future plan but are just a part of the jigsaw.
The finale sees the terrorist face off with Akshay directly as they try to outsmart and out muscle each other.
All this goes on while there is an entire parallel track running, revolving around the love lives of our hero and heroine. The coming together of these 2 storylines is so bad, it feels like an amateur working on a movie merging software and trying to bring 2 movies together.
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The sudden song and dance sequences and all of the mush involving our lead actors is what ruins what could have been a perfectly good film.
Sonakshi Sinha has no purpose in the movie, and quite frankly she doesn't even makes up for good eye candy.
Akshay kumar does well in his role as an army officer and looks the part, making his over the top action sequences look believable.
Freddy daruwala as the leader of the terrorist outfit essays his role well as a shrewd criminal mastermind.
The storyline is quite ok, but the treatment given to it by the director is bad.
If the purpose of the love story was to show the soft side of the army man, it has failed terribly.
What does bring a tear to the eye is the last song, where all families send off their sons/brothers/husbands back from the vacation, not knowing if they'll ever come back. A beautiful song indeed.
Could have been a really fab movie, but it warrants a watch. A tribute to the real heroes.
Rating - 3.5/5
Holiday: A soldier is never off duty had got reasonably good reviews and I wanted to watch this one.
As the name suggests, the movie is about a soldier i.e. Akshay Kumar, and his home coming from the army for a vacation.The purpose of the holiday is to see a potential bride, i.e. Sonakshi Sinha.
The holiday however goes unlike anything planned as he involuntarily gets involved at the scene of a terror incident. Seeing the police inaction and inability to cope up with the situation, he decides to take matter into his own hands and kidnaps the terrorist.
Soon enough he comes up with a plan involving his colleagues wherein they foil a major terror attack together, thereby angering the mastermind behind the attacks.
The movie revolves around the concept of 'sleeper cells' who are terrorists that work without knowing the future plan but are just a part of the jigsaw.
The finale sees the terrorist face off with Akshay directly as they try to outsmart and out muscle each other.
All this goes on while there is an entire parallel track running, revolving around the love lives of our hero and heroine. The coming together of these 2 storylines is so bad, it feels like an amateur working on a movie merging software and trying to bring 2 movies together.
The sudden song and dance sequences and all of the mush involving our lead actors is what ruins what could have been a perfectly good film.Sonakshi Sinha has no purpose in the movie, and quite frankly she doesn't even makes up for good eye candy.
Akshay kumar does well in his role as an army officer and looks the part, making his over the top action sequences look believable.
Freddy daruwala as the leader of the terrorist outfit essays his role well as a shrewd criminal mastermind.
The storyline is quite ok, but the treatment given to it by the director is bad.
If the purpose of the love story was to show the soft side of the army man, it has failed terribly.
What does bring a tear to the eye is the last song, where all families send off their sons/brothers/husbands back from the vacation, not knowing if they'll ever come back. A beautiful song indeed.
Could have been a really fab movie, but it warrants a watch. A tribute to the real heroes.
Rating - 3.5/5
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