Bhuj The Pride of India Movie Review: Okay, what is this tarbhooj?

Bhuj The Pride of IndiaDir Abhishek Dudhaiyaon Disney HotstarCast Ajay Devgn Sonakshi SinhaRating 15Oh yeah letrsquos start with Yahya This film does I mean General Yahya Khan Pak Prez during 1971 IndoPak war In a halflit room sunlight beaming hersquos aghast by the Indian Army taking over what was then East Pakistan now Bangladesh How dare they Yahya yelps ldquoAfter all for 400 years we ruled them at joote ki nokh under our bootsrdquoStrange because Pakistan only got created in 1947 Unless of course he means Mughal rule which is stranger still for a dictator of Pashtun origin to sayHis minions nod nonetheless as he orders them to take over West India so he can clear out the East with Mrs Indira Gandhi over tea Attack Yahya yells like Captain Zatakmdasheffectively setting the tone for deliberate mindlessness minus that Mogambo to followWatch VideoDonrsquot feel tortured Enough Pakistanis on screen already aremdashbunch of barbarians basically indulging in mass selfflagellation and public stoning Feel a lirsquol stoned instead And then the Pak plans will emerge clearer to youWhich is to isolate the Rann of Kutch that is half water half desert from the Indian mainlandmdashby blowing up bridges that connect to it and indeed the airbase in Bhuj where fighter planes could take off from This is where Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik Ajay Devgn comes into the picturemdashwith rockets bombs raining on his airbase as he navigates all of rsquoem gokarting in an open jeepAlso Read Ajay Devgn Stay sane by being disconnectedBut of course itrsquoll take more than a man and much yadida to take on Yahyarsquos Yodas The cast of characters is ready with their own backstory of how theyrsquove excelled against the enemy There is Lt Colonel Nair Sharad Kelkar whorsquos beaten the crap out of a Pakistani boxer before Pagi thatrsquos Sanjay Dutt is a RAW agent whorsquos slaughtered five Pak soldiers alreadymdashldquokaat kar devi maa ko bhenth kar diyardquomdashas an offering to the goddessPakistan is actually the gift that doesnrsquot stop giving Given that there is also a lsquoSehmatrsquo reprised from Raazi 2018 in the form of Nora Fatehi who taps precious info from inside a Pak bigwigrsquos home to pass on to Indians furtively ldquopraying to Allah for HindustanrdquoOnly Devgnrsquos Vijay feels let down by Pakistanis though After all he argues ldquoWe gave them Rs 75 crore at Partitionmdashsharaafat ki itni badi keemat kisi desh ne nahin chukayi hogi no country has paid such price for nobilityrdquoNow theyrsquore lobbing bombs and ammo with that money see Please donrsquot pontificate on that economic point Therersquos a better one coming ldquoAgar Taj Mahal pyar ki nishani hai toh Hindustan tere baap ki kahaani hairdquo If Taj Mahal is symbol of love then Hindustan is the story of your father Wut Donrsquot know But jingo I mean bingoAlso Read From Shershaah to Bhuj The Pride of India films to watch this Independence DayDonrsquot bang your head against the screen yet Because none of the above is what this film is about It is supposed to be on village women around Bhuj who almost overnight helped fix craters into runways of a wholly destroyed airbase in the 1971 IndoPak war Yeah thatrsquos what I thought tooThis team is led by a brave woman referred to as Sherni tigress How to establish that By Sonakshi Sinharsquos introduction scenemdashliterally fighting off a tendua leopard These character summaries are essential to put you into the mindspace of stirring poetry over peptalk over chants over bhajans Just so yoursquore not taken aback when dhols are brought out songs startSurely the filmmakers know what theyrsquore doingmdashaiming for desi credulous masses through an OTT platform since theatres during the pandemic is still not an option This 1971 warstory itself theyrsquoll have us believe is only next in line to the submarine operation against INS Ghazimdashcheck out The Ghazi Attack 2017mdashand the Battle of Longewala that was Border 1997Imagine spending crores on this planned crappiness thoughmdashbuilding massive trenches ordering tanks planes hiring heroes extras Hindustan ki kasammdashswear on India and indeed the 1997 Ajay Devgnstarrer of the same namemdashit takes a special kinda earthy bravado to pull this off in 2021That too as an Independence Day release right on the back of Shershaah on the 1999 Kargil War I forget for a second if Independence Day has as much to do with IndoPak conflict as itrsquos a celebration of the end of British ruleSpeaking of which the IDay 2020 release Gunjan Saxena was a biopic of the Air Force Kargil war veteran which the IAF had several accuracy issues with I wonder if theyrsquod wanna factcheck this flight of fancy as well while Devgn zips in a truck for the cargo plane to land right on top of it Not that they shouldmdashIrsquom just sayingThat if you get past the hardness of this tarbhooj watermelon of a warmovie you could splice several portions into succulent standalone YouTube videos Unsure if the filmmakers agree Think Yahya says ya Start with himAlso Read Sharad Kelkar Need to keep in mind the uniforms honour

Bhuj The Pride of India Movie Review: Okay, what is this tarbhooj?

Bhuj The Pride of India
Dir: Abhishek Dudhaiya
on: Disney+ Hotstar
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha
Rating: 1/5

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Bhuj The Pride of India Movie Review: Okay, what is this tarbhooj?

Bhuj The Pride of IndiaDir: Abhishek Dudhaiyaon: Disney+ HotstarCast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi SinhaRating: 1/5

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Bhuj The Pride of India
Dir: Abhishek Dudhaiya
on: Disney+ Hotstar
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha
Rating: 1/5