UTSS Review: Mission accomplished with minor casualities.

'Uri:  The Surgical Strike' is based on the covert operation carried out by the Indian army in  Pakistan occupied Kashmir, in retaliation of the Uri attacks in 2016. The movie is directed by the debutant Aditya Dhar and has Vicky Kaushal, taking the command of this war film.

                                                           

                                                

After acing in roles from Raazi, Mamnarziyaan, Vicky Kaushal yet again proves his versatility as Major Vihaan Shergill. He portrays the role to perfection and takes the film to another level. Actors Kirti Kulhari, Rajit Kapoor, Swaroop Sampat, Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam, Mohit Raina, Mansi Parekh etc. make an appearance and do a brilliant job in their respective roles. A special mention to Mohit Raina's Major Karan Sharma that left a huge impact and he did a great job in his debut.

                                        

If a viewer knows about the end of the movie, it is entirely down to the storyteller how captivated the storyteller can keep the audience and writer-director Aditya Dhar does a really good job and keeps the viewer engaged in the 138-minute long movie. The only problem here is the screenplay, the screenplay could have been a bit tighter and the movie might have been trimmed by 5-10 minutes in the first half. There were some certain cinematic liberties that the director has taken which at times felt unnecessary. Not to forget, the fantastic background music, that just helped build tension in the movie- something that was needed.

                                         

With all said and done, Uri: The Surgical Strike, is a war film without any forced jingoism and arouses patriotism without any over the top dialogues. I am going with 3.5 stars for Uri. Do go and watch it! A watch of pride for the entire country!

                                        

P.S. We could not have asked for a better start to the year!