Fighter Movie Review: Top Gun or Flop Gun?

Fighter
Fighter

Fighter

Starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone , Anil Kapoor

Directed by Siddharth Anand

Rating: **

Fighter Review: Hrithik Roshan does a homegrown Tom Cruise in Siddharth Anand’s Pathaan without its jaan, Shah Rukh Khan.

It is a  rollercoaster  ride for  those who are not fans of airborne disasters. You may  enjoy  Hrithik  and Deepika,together  for the first and blast time, flying war planes across the LoC. But hell, you know  it is  not them in the planes.Even if it is they,the stress is  more creating a midair Cruise than focussing on the relationships.

  Most fatally,  Roshan and  Padukone  seem to have  very little  us-time together. Most of  the time their characters  Patty and Mini move in a group with their other airforce chums, doing so many slo-mo shots together it feels like an ad for  war wear.Speaking of ads, Deepika tells Roshan at some point in their pointless prattle, “I’ve heard you like Zomato.”

Huh?

Two of of the slo-mo gang Akshay Oberoi and Karan Singh Grover later  get kidnapped by Pakistani’s militants , all of whom grind their  teeth  so hard we fear for their molars . They, our sworn(and swearing) enemies all wear kajal ,even the airborne  antagonist  named Red Nose(why is he called  that, who nose?!) .

 That’s  so kohl. I am sure  the film’s largest chunk from the budget  must have gone into buying kajal , after paying Hrithik Roshan’s fee, that is.

Deepika’s  screen  presence is disappointingly  diluted. We get she is doubly disadvantaged as  a woman and an airforce pilot. On top of this, she hardly gets  any  time with  Roshan on screen. Rather  like having Vyajanthimala  and  Hema  Malini over for a Bharat Natyam jugalbandi  dance recital and then make them perform the Samba. On different stages.

 Fighter seems fighting fit on the surface. Lots of soldierly solidarity, like we saw in B R Chopra’s  Aadmi Aur Insaan and J P Dutta’s Border and LoC Kargil.  But  the spirit of borderline bonhomie seems shallow, and  simulated.  Hrithik Roshan remains  the apple of  camera’s eye throughout. Cinematographer Satchith Paulose loves  every  crease  and curl on the hero’s cheek and in his hair.

They are inseparable, the  camera and Roshan,so much so that  Deepika feels like an intruder. Even Sanjeeda Sheikh  playing missing soldier Akshay Oberoi’s  wife makes a deeper impact than Deepika.

The stunts are interesting.The biggest stunt is Anil Kapoor playing Hrithik Roshan’s dead fiancee’s…wrong guess…. brother ! Too  young to play anyone’s father, huh?

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