Even in my opinion, it is truly RGV’s come back movie as you can see his director's expertise in several scenes. It is based on 2008 Mumbai attacks, which is the one of the greatest tragedy in Indian history. This type of attacks indicates how fragile our security at coastal areas is.
The first 7 minutes of this movie, had already been released in youtube as a trailer before releasing it in theaters. It was first of its kind in film history to release 7 mins as a trailer. That trailer had created enough buzz in audience on the movie. Everybody thought after very long time, RGV is going to get a big hit. However, in reality, it got very poor openings.
The actor who played as a Ajmal Kasab exactly resembles him. I should appreciate RGV for casting him. While watching this movie, I was thinking how easy for anybody to come to India from Pakistan over the sea on a small boat? I’m not sure, if there would be any patrolling boats on the sea as like on roads. Otherwise, how could they come without any fear? There could be more attacks like this could happen if we don’t provide a tight security at our coastal line.
The first attack happened at Leopold Café, and following attacks happened at Taj hotel, Chatrapati Shivaji terminal and Cama Hospital. Those are the only attacks Ramu pictured in this movie. The scenes in those attacks are terrifying and felt as if I’m watching it on Live. I should also appreciate art department who made Taj hotel and the rest of the sets, they resemble original constructions.
As I said before, in many scenes you can see the director's talent. For e.g. in one scene people hiding on the side of platform with fear when terrorists are shooting at Chatrapathi terminal (you must see that scene, I’ve not seen that before in any movie) and Constables throwing stones inside Leopold Cafe just to confirm whether terrorists are present. After seeing those scenes, you can realize how much unprepared our police personnel for this kind of attacks.
As given in one of the reviews, RGV would have continued the movie after Kasab got caught, and would have showed how other Terrorists were killed. Otherwise, it feels he did half justice. Once they arrest Kasab then RGV moves total focus on him, and continues movie in his point of view till he dies. As a senior director, he knows how much to spend for a movie. He would have assumed that the scenes that involved shootings at Trident Hotel and Nariman house requires huge budget as it involves National Guards and Helicopters etc. Since already he had spent 30 crore on this movie, so he might have not ready to spend more. What ever he made, he made with quality and perfection. If he would have spent even for other scenes, then that would have been a disaster to producers. Because this movie struggled to collect even that 30 crore though the reviews are positive. That is a surprise thing to me.
I wanted to know what happened after Kasab caught and how other terrorists were killed, so I watched a CNN-IBN's program called ’60 Hours’ in YouTube, which is a documentary based on these attacks. That documentary is very detailed, and I think for many of RGV's scenes this program might be the reference. In that video, they had put CC camera footage of the shootings and conversation that happened between those 10 terrorists and people behind them from Pakistan. People who are behind them were guiding them to put Taj hotel on fire and asked them to kill people in Nariman House.
Regarding actors performance, I won’t say, this is Nana Patekar’s the best role or something as he did many better roles than this. But he fully justified to the character and the other guy who played as Kasab also done a good job. The background music is excellent and elevated the scenes. Overall, it is unquestionably RGV’s best in recent times, though sadly it became an average film as per box office reports. I wish he would continue to make movies like this. Probably he can make a part 2 to show other incidents that happened at Trident hotel and Nariman house.
My rating for this movie is 8.
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