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Zee Studios and Paper Doll Entertainment’s Rashtra Kavach Om (UA) is an action film. Dev Rathore (Jackie Shroff) and Jai Rathore (Ashutosh Rana) are brothers. They both work in the army and are trustworthy. Moorty (Prakash Raj) also works with them in the army. Both, Dev and Jai, have a son each. Dev is assigned the task of making a new defence system, which is a major responsibility. But he is soon kidnapped. Dev’s son, Rishi, is brought up by Jai and his wife, Yashvi (Prachee Shah Pandya). Rishi, whose name is changed to Om (Aditya Roy Kapur), grows up and joins the army. He is assigned an important mission. What happens thereafter?
Raj Saluja and Niket Pandey have written a story and screenplay, which are devoid of novelty. One has seen such dramas in umpteen earlier films. What’s more, the screenplay is confusing and one of complete convenience. Since the drama moves back and forth, it sometimes takes time for the viewers to decipher what exactly is happening. Also, whatever Om sets out to do is accomplished quite easily, probably because the writers have decided that this is to happen. This makes the drama quite unbelievable. The only good point is that it is fast-paced and does not give the audience time to think. However, that is just one plus point among many minus points. Niket Pandey’s dialogues are nice.
Aditya Roy Kapur has done well and has also worked very hard on his physique, and to good advantage. But to project him as the Sunny Deol of yore is not the wisest thing to do because an actor’s image comes into play ever so often. Aditya Roy Kapur does not have the image of an action hero, leave alone an action hero of the stature of Sunny Deol in his youth. Of course, Aditya breathes fire in the action scenes but yet, they look unreal. Sanjana Sanghi does an average job as Kavya. Prakash Raj is very good as Moorty. Ashutosh Rana is natural to the core as Jai Rathore. Prachee Shah Pandya lends decent support as Yashvi. Jackie Shroff is okay as Dev Rathore. Vicky Arora is endearing as Rohit Vyas. Rohit Chaudhary has his moments as Arsalan Khan. Elnaaz Norouzi impresses in a dance number. Shubhangi Later (as Vandana), Vikram Kochhar (as Rajat), Abudhar Al Hassan (as Diwan), Neeraj Purohit (as Sean Matthew), Puru Rao (as P. Bala), Ajinkya Mishra (as young Rishi), Runav Shah (as young Om), Asif Iqbal (as Sumit), Amit Ghosh (as Sajjan), and the others provide fair support.
Kapil Verma’s direction is quite nice but his choice of subject to make his debut as director leaves a lot to be desired. Music (Arko, Amjad Nadeem, Chirantan Bhatt and Enbee) is okay; although a couple of songs are fair, there is not a single hit or super-hit number. Lyrics (Kumaar, A.M. Turaz and Manoj Yadav) are nothing to shout about. Song picturisations (by Ahmed Khan and Prince Gupta) are alright. Amandeep Singh Jolly’s background music is too loud and jarring. Vineet Malhotra’s camerawork is quite nice. Parvez Shaikh’s action and stunt scenes are thrilling but rather unbelievable because the heavy-duty stunts are performed by an actor who has neither an action hero’s image nor the following of a hero of the masses. Manini Mishra’s production designing and Prabhat Thakur’s art direction are okay. Kamlesh Robin Parui’s editing ought to have been sharper.
On the whole, Rashtra Kavach Om will not be able to do anything worthwhile at the ticket windows as it completely and absolutely lacks novelty.
Released on 1-7-’22 at Inox (daily 5 shows) and other cinemas of Bombay by Zee Studios. Publicity: quite good. Opening: dull. …….Also released all over. Opening was below the mark everywhere.
