Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha’s ‘Yodha’ is a generically enjoyable thriller with solid action bits
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 15, 2024
- 1 min read
The film stars Sidharth Malhotra, Raashii Khanna, Disha Patani. It’s not as nail-biting as it could be, but it gets the job done.
One of the happiest surprises in Indian mainstream cinema is how action sequences have improved. We still lag behind when it comes to the big, visual effects-filled set pieces: in other words, we won’t be seeing one of our ageing heroes climbing the Burj Khalifa anytime soon. But I have really come to enjoy the tight choreography of action in cramped quarters. We recently saw this in the Tamil film, Joshua, as well. Instead of going wide and giving us spectacle, the camera goes real close and captures the combat as though we – the audience – are a hair’s breadth away from the people fighting. Yodha has many such bursts of exciting action. They don’t overstay their welcome. Even better, they don’t make the hero look like a superhero. We know he is going to win. But he’s also going to bleed. I was reminded of the Die Hard films, where Bruce Willis gets as good as he gives, as opposed to the Equalizer films, where Denzel Washington barely breaks a sweat. It helps when a hero seems… vincible.
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