Movie Review: Shaurya

Banner: Moser Baer

Director: Samar Khan

Star Cast: Rahul Bose, Minissha Lamba, Kay Kay Menon, Rozza Catalano, Javed Jaffrey, Seema Biswas, Deepak Dobriyal, Amrita Rao

Music Director: Surendra Sodhi, Adnan Sami

Cinematography: Carlos Catalan

Art: Wasiq Khan

Editor: Sanjib Datta

Screenplay: Joydeep Sarkar

Sound: Jitendra Chaudhary

Story Writer: Samar Khan, Joydeep Sarkar, Aparna Malhotra

The movie Shourya is about an Army court martial and it depicts that the realities underneath can be very different from the general interpretation made by anybody about a situation. The story has the army background but it is not a movie that shows people going to border and fighting battles against the enemy country for its homeland .The movie depicts the battle within army, as a department that employs people.

The story starts as a Captain Javed has to face court martial for shooting down his fellow officer. The two close friends Sid and Akash are employed with the army and are given the charge to handle the case. One friend has to be in defense and other against the accused. The case is enquired and the friends reach Srinagar where the incident took place and Akash just wants to win the case but Sid gets some other meaning to his life while investigating the case.

Javed is not speaking anything about the incident that could save him and Brigadier Pratap, father of the killed officer, wants Javed to be convicted soon. Can Javed be saved? The question is answered in a very dramatic way and the movie script gets brilliant when the suspense of the story comes out.

The story of the movie keeps the audience thinking what will happen next? The direction by Samar Khan is perfect (except for a few extended scenes) and the music is ok. Cinematography is good.

The presence of Rahul Bose makes the audience feel comfortable (be it any movie).Kay Kay Menon is getting more and more powerful roles to perform and he is fine with his performance even in this one. Deepak, Javed and Minissha are also good in their roles. Like all the lead stars in the movie Amrita and Seema are just perfect.

The movie will be made popular by the audience and will get above average box –office collections as the time of release of the movie is of vacations.

Rating: 7/10