Kayoze Irani’s ‘Sarzameen’ (Prithviraj, Kajol, Ibrahim Ali Khan) portrays an unimpressive conflict between father and son

The melodramatic story of an army officer who has to make hard choices is not convincingly done. The film is big, broad, and it offers no surprises. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

Earlier this year, Boman Irani made his directorial debut with The Mehta Boys, which was about a troubled father-son relationship. Now, his son Kayoze Irani makes his feature-length directorial debut with Sarzameen, which is about…  a troubled father-son relationship. Apart from the one-line, the films are vastly different in tone and temperament (and The Mehta Boys is a far superior achievement), but this fact about a father and a son debuting with movies about fathers and sons in the same year could be a nice bit of trivia for future quizzers. For the rest of us, though, Sarzameen is an unimpressive affair set in the troubled land of Kashmir. Prithviraj Sukumaran plays Vijay Menon, an army  officer married to Meher (Kajol). In an early scene, he gets news about terrorists. He gets to do a slo-mo run. He gets to do some shooting. He gets to do some hand combat. After establishing his heroism, the film establishes his vulnerability. Back home, in a party Meher throws for his promotion, their son Harman reads out an “I am proud of you, papa” speech he’s prepared. But Vijay is embarrassed because Harman has a stammer. The speech makes Vijay uncomfortable because he is dealing with his own issues with a daddy who demanded nothing but perfection.

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