This Indian movie, Uri: The Surgical Strike, which premiered in 2019, reminded me of the days we used to watch movies together way back at home — when smartphones had not yet taken over the world. It reminded me of how my dad would continuously hiss all through the movie. Why? He would say, “What kind of movie is this where 95% of it is used to prepare for war, just 2% is used for the war, and the remaining 3% is for congratulations?” Lol.
That’s exactly how everything played out when I was watching, and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud while repeating my dad’s words in my mind.
The major story of the movie starts when a militant group from Pakistan storms an Indian military camp and kills a multitude of soldiers, including Vihaan’s brother, who was also in the military like him. The death of this man’s brother broke his heart to the core, and he found it very hard to recover from the shock.
Not just this attack by the Pakistani militants was carried out — many others happened that claimed uncountable lives of Indian soldiers.
As the name of the movie suggests, the Indian military government put themselves together to plan for revenge, and Vihaan, out of pain and deep love for his country, decided to lead the strike just to avenge his brother’s death.
So yeah, the planning took a major part of the movie, but to be honest, the planning process wasn’t uninteresting to watch. No, I loved the flow because it had a lot of nice sub-stories, especially how one of the students who was into technology was made to produce a birdlike drone that was used to spy on the camp of the Pakistani militants.
The short war scenes are very entertaining, and I feel that even though the most talked-about upcoming war was brief, it made up for my expectations. Although I wanted it to be longer, it’s fine too.
This movie is an emotional one, especially those scenes starting from the point where Vihaan’s brother flipped off the head of the bomb — and immediately he realized, it was already too late.
The burial scene was so heartbreaking!
It’s a good movie, and I’ll give it a 6/10 rating.
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