Shershaah Movie Review: Yeh Dil Maange More from Sidharth Malhotra

Shershaah Movie Review: Sidharth Malhotra steps into the shoes of Param Vir Chakra Captain Vikram Batra for Shershaah. The film, also starring Kiara Advani in the lead role, releases on Amazon Prime Video on August 12. Can Shershaah be Sidharth Malhotra's own Uri?

Right before Lt Vikram Batra boards the bus from Chandigarh, he makes a promise to Dimple. He will return home and spend the next 40 years with 'Mrs Batra'. It is precisely at this moment that you hear your heart break into a million pieces. Perhaps louder than the shelling at LOC. You know Vikram won't return to keep his promise. The girl in front of you, eyes a little glassy, soaking in the words of that promise made by her lover, doesn't know that. The sacrifice that goes behind an Army officer's sacrifice comes alive in that moment between Dimple and Vikram somewhere on that bus stand before he goes off to war. Batra goes by choice. Vikram is on leave when news of India and Pakistan going into war breaks. The famous speech of the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is played out on TV, and Batra gets restless. He knows he doesn't belong in the verdant valleys of Palampur, but in the blinding-brown hills of Kargil. And thus Lieutenant Batra leaves his family, his friends, his Dimple. He speaks a line straight from the legend of Captain Vikram Batra: Ya toh Tiranga lehrake aaunga, ya toh Tirange mein lipat ke aaunga. Lekin aaunga zaroor!