One-Line Review: Pathaan is full of guns, bullets, muscles, punches and flying kicks – nevertheless, the KING IS BACK.
Pathaan Youtube Trailer
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone etc.
Directed By: Siddharth Anand
Release Date: January 25, 2023
Introduction
Shahrukh Khan makes a stylish comeback with Pathaan!
Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone-starrer has finally got what’s needed in a spy thriller — non-stop action, glamorous leads, the guy who can save the world, a high-octane set piece, and an emo line at a time.
~ Indian Express
Our rating for Pathaan is 06/10.
Summary
A Pakistan General who finds out that his life is gonna end in a few years due to a deadly disease makes his mission to get Kashmir from India by asking a terrorist named Jim to do so. Meanwhile, Pathaan an Indian Raw agent with the help of his senior officer Nandini forms a team named JOCR by recruiting agents who are retired due to multiple reasons.
Pathaan, with his team, goes to Dubai to stop a terrorist organization called Outfit-X from kidnapping their scientists and finds out that Jim is handling the organization. Jim was an Indian soldier who hates India because he thinks he was abandoned by his own country which led to his pregnant wife’s death. Even though Jim flees away from Pathaan. Pathaan still tries to track Jim from stopping an incoming threat to India.
Review
Pathaan is the latest installment to the Spyverse of Siddharth Anand. After Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger and Hrithik’s War, he’s trying to join this new trend of creating a universe in Indian cinema. But, whatever we had seen in previous movies of Siddharth, repeats in Pathaan. It is a completely action-packed movie, except for the fact that the gravity was on leave when the action sequences were shot with poor VFX to back it up.
Nevertheless, when it is King Khan on-screen as Pathaan showing off his handsomeness and well-chiseled physique fighting off the bad guys, you automatically ignore the flaws. A potent antagonist will always up the cat-and-mouse game and John is just that in Pathaan. John’s character as Jim overshadowed SRK’s Pathaan in every way. Let it be his performance, his looks, attitude, or action, John nailed it. Deepika as Rubina, an ISI agent was a treat for sore eyes and she contributed an ample amount of glamour to the movie raising the oomph whenever on screen.
Being a commercial spy action flick, Pathaan has some surprise elements too to make you go wow but to put your brain in snooze mode is very much suggested. Because if you noticed the plot, you can see an Indian agent who considers Afghanistan his home, Indian Army not honoring their heroes, a Pakistan Spy whose presence is inevitable for the hero to succeed in the mission, and above all, a villain who is actually Indian -makes you frown, right?
Conclusion
Pathaan is an average commercial spy thriller that works if you don’t dig much into the plot or anything for that matter.
