URI:The Surgical Strike is high on josh.

URI:The Surgical Strike : 4 stars

India | Drama | Army | Action

Cast: Vicky Kaushal; Paresh Rawal; Mohit Raina; Kirti Kulhari; Yami Gautam

Duration: 138 min

Release: Jan 2019

Plot: (Google)

Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

Review:

I had alot of fun when watching this movie. Majority of the new movie reviews I write are when I watch them in theater for screening and believe me when I say this URI's best experience is on a big screen.

The Vicky Kaushal starrer is a film that hits all the right notes with music, drama, action, and the casting. The War film is endless on energy and emotions. (How's the Josh?)

Directed by Aditya Dhar, URI The surgical strike is an account of all the events surrounding the URI camp attack by Pakistan and India's surgical strike across the border. If you have read about it there isn't much of the movie that you wouldn't know.

But for me, I had no idea about the attack and any details on it, and I tired my best not to read on it untill after the movie.

The film begins a year before in June 2015, Manipur as Chapter 1. After a group of terrorist attack buses of Indian Army, Major Vihan Singh Shergill aka Vicky Kaushal leads a covert operation to eradicate all the terrorists in the area. He succeeds the mission and returns with no casualties in his team.

The film's cinematography is grim and glum, which is not bad at all. It matches the grey tone of the film and its story so well that it seems most colorful in the chosen happy moments. The screenplay stays true to the characters and their fitting roles. There are a few out of character punchlines at crucial moments but the cast never fails you.

When I say the cast honestly you wont see much of anyone but Vicky then Paresh Rawal and Yami Gautam.

Vicky Kaushal is apt for the Major Vihan Singh Shergill's character. Unlike his previous film Manmarziyaan's character, he here is the strategic and focused man on whose shoulder India's safety rests. The film also stars, Yami Gautam as an intelligence agent, who may be a bad nurse but is a damn good agent (self-proclaimed).

One of the best parts of the film is Paresh Rawal's character as Govind, country's National Security Advisor. Due to security reasons he uses burner phones and after every use he breaks the flips phones with his hands in two pieces with so easy. Now snapping the flip phones shut will never be enough for me.

Even though off the fields, leading the surgical strike from office, he has a strong presence on the screen. As though he is a soldier fighting for the country.

The story structure has been divided into parts, called Chapters. An hour into the film, makers finally introduce the title on a black screen as URI. The unusual story structure, strong background score, occasional and comic relief fits so well into the direction of the film that no moment is missed.

The film lacks usual gimmicks like so motion and dramatizing the action which makes it as close to real as possible. The story takes many liberties with dramatic moments adding flare to the characters on screen and intensifying certain moments.

Verdict: URI is exciting from the get-go and keeps up to the end and Vicky is just the cutest. Him crying when as he stands by his brother in law's coffin makes you want to hug him.

**** stars