![]() ![]() On the contrary, Kay Kay Menon plays the captain with the consistency of someone with multiple personality disorder. ![]() But you don’t feel that swell of pride and patriotism because barring Kulkarni, the other actors do not represent any firm stand. You also know that in this film you are going to hear the National Anthem and Saare Jahan Se Acha. When a broken S21 dodges the torpedoes by fixing its depth a few metres and simply dodges the line of fire by going up and down, a frustrated Razzak exclaims, “Is he a commander or a lift man!”Īt the beginning of the movie you stare at and listen to the narration of an essay packed with disclaimers. But Singh is given the dialogue of the film. Since the Pakistanis are the bad guys not only do they look un-groomed and sweaty but they are also shot from a low angle so that their nostrils flare menacingly into the camera. The setting of the high sea shenanigans is the Bay of Bengal and the S21 is engaged in a delicate underwater battle with Pakistani sub PNS Ghazi, commandeered by a sneering Captain Razzak (Rahul Singh). Balancing the two and maintaining calm on the boat is loyal-to-a-fault second officer Devaraj (Atul Kulkarni). In other words Singh is as shrewd as he is unfettered by rules. Rann Vijay Singh’s idol is Colonel George Patton, whose biopic released in 1970. Sadly these artistic and computer generated images of war craft, docks, floating and submerged submarines and torpedo attacks are nothing less than shabby - almost comic book-like. There are a few other shots in the offices of generals on both sides of the border and the rest is special effects. Debutant writer-director Sankalp Reddy takes on all these issues and plays them out mostly underwater represented by a detailed set of the interiors of two submarines. There’s a fourth fight too - the one you have within yourself, between your ethics and logic and your patriotism and instinct. ![]()
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