Movie Review: Sooryavanshi

Sooryavanshi Movie Review Rating: 2 of 5

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Gulshan Grover, Jackie Shroff, Kumud Mishra, Jaaved Jaaferi, Sikandar Kher & Nikitin Dheer

Director: Rohit Shetty

Sooryavanshi, along with managing his family issues with wife Riya (Katrina Kaif), investigates the missing RDX which, they get a leak about, could be used for multiple bomb blasts in Mumbai. With help from his old colleagues Simmba (Ranveer Singh) & Singham (Ajay Devgn), Sooryavanshi races against the time, hoping to stop the ticking bomb avoiding a lethal disaster.

Rohit Shetty has fallen for his own trap, he has made a film which he could’ve directed 5-7 years ago while sleepwalking and it would’ve been a success. But, unfortunately, that’s how time works, we’re in living in a world where movies like Singham & Simmba already exist. The intent of milking the popularity of Singham & Simmba’s success to introduce another cop in the universe is so visible that it steals the spotlight from Sooryavanshi.

This is a classic example of a director refusing to change the winning formula hence losing the essence of originality. Simmba was contrastingly different than Singham and hence it clicked beautifully well. Sooryavanshi is picking Akshay Kumar from Neeraj Pandey’s world and throwing him amid Rohit Shetty’s ‘car flying universe with lines worse than Housefull 4. He’s even robbed of a dedicated climax sequence with Singham stealing the limelight.

Katrina Kaif in Tip Tip Barsaa Paani > Katrina Kaif in the entire film. She rarely adds any value to the story and looks like she has shot this simultaneously with Salman Khan’s Bharat. If you ask someone without any knowledge of Bollywood to watch Bharat, Sooryavanshi & show him/her a Katrina Kaif scene from any of the two movies, he/she won’t be able to tell from what film it’s.

Never thought Akshay Kumar would prove to be the Pineapple of Rohit Shetty’s half-baked Pizza. His whole act is divided into two parts, the first kind you’ve already seen in movies like Baby, Holiday, Bell Bottom & the other kind you’ve already seen in De Dana Dan, Phir Hera Pheri & Bhaagam Bhag.

None of the actors from the supporting cast i.e. Gulshan Grover, Jackie Shroff, Kumud Mishra, Jaaved Jaaferi, Sikandar Kher, Nikitin Dheer leave any memorable mark. Each one of them is either a miscast or lost.

Rohit Shetty, in an attempt of giving Sooryavanshi the best of both worlds (Singham & Simmba), fails to create its novelty factor. This has everything Rohit always tries to run far away from like shoddy VFX, lame dialogues, forced emotions. It’s like selling a prototype after the wild success of your hero products. A classic case of the director refusing to change the already proved template with a failed hope of creating similar magic.