War films
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Sky Force review – Akshay Kumar stands tall in threadbare air-war flagwaver
Kumar does his best to inject some humanist gravitas into a film set during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, that …
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Yodha review – bone-crunching patriotism on display in adrenaline-fuelled thriller
Sidharth Malhotra fights like a machine in an Indian action film cut from similar cloth as the jingoistic Ramb…
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Fighter review – India’s pizazz-free Top Gun weighed down by patriotic propaganda
Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone can’t inject feeling into an air force love story with lifeless CGI and ob…
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Sam Bahadur review – Indian war hero Sam Manekshaw is the guy who can do no wrong
Meghna Gulzar’s somewhat episodic biopic of Indian army officer Sam ‘The Brave’ Manekshaw presents him in term…
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Shershaah review – Sidharth Malhotra stars in nuance-free military biopic
Karan Johar-produced film about Vikram Batra, who died in the 1999 India-Pakistan conflict, promotes him as a …
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How India’s armed forces have become Bollywood’s new poster boys
A series of big films this year will focus on Indian military conflicts with Pakistan, reflecting an escalatio…
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi review – Indian rebellion epic gets feminist retelling
Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what …