{"id":62611,"date":"2024-03-16T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/mar\/16\/yodha-review-bone-crunching-patriotism-on-display-in-adrenaline-fuelled-thriller"},"modified":"2024-03-16T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:50:35","slug":"yodha-review-bone-crunching-patriotism-on-display-in-adrenaline-fuelled-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62611","title":{"rendered":"Yodha review \u2013 bone-crunching patriotism on display in adrenaline-fuelled thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sidharth Malhotra fights like a machine in an Indian action film cut from similar cloth as the jingoistic Rambo series<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your age and perspective, you may or may not have fond memories of the three Rambo films. Where the first one was rather circumspect about America\u2019s role in Vietnam, the sequels went all in on a might-is-right jingoism that combined adrenaline-infused action, rippling muscles and improbable set pieces with deeply queasy politics. New Hindi action-movie Yodha is cut from similar cloth.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re introduced to our hero, Arun (Sidharth Malhotra) as a young boy who worships his soldier father, who is then promptly killed leaving some big Freudian boots to fill. Arun vows he will either live to be worthy of wearing the uniform of his dad\u2019s badass task force, the \u201cYodha\u201d of the title, or else his \u201ccorpse will be wrapped in our flag\u201d. Many bone-crunching displays of patriotism follow over the subsequent two hours. These are facilitated by Arun\u2019s ability to fight like an absolute machine, and also practically teleport himself, popping up wherever the bad guys don\u2019t want him to be.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/mar\/16\/yodha-review-bone-crunching-patriotism-on-display-in-adrenaline-fuelled-thriller\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidharth Malhotra fights like a machine in an Indian action film cut from similar cloth as the jingoistic Rambo seriesDepending on your age and perspective, you may or may not have fond memories of the three Rambo films. Where the first one was rather &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1780,71,69,62,61,1782,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-and-adventure-films","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-films","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62611\/revisions\/62612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}