‘Yudhra’ review: Frantic surface, hollow within
Live MintWith his scripts for War, Pathaan and Tiger 3, Shridhar Raghavan has been instrumental in giving the YRF Spyverse a distinct shape and tone. But when it’s something like Yudhra—a grittier sort of genre film, for Excel, not in on the joke—the inconsistencies and wild swings are less charming. It’s rescued by their classmate Yudhra, who takes it home and explains to his only friend, Nikhat, that there’s no need to worry because it can regenerate missing body parts. Though Siddhant Chaturvedi isn’t exactly physically imposing, Yudhra bounces back from all sorts of pain and punishment—shooting, stabbing, drowning—in good enough shape to dish out worse to his enemies. Of all the scenery-chewing, I most enjoyed Arjun Raj’s bald, bearded kingpin; the calmest of psychopaths, he has something like Pankaj Kapur’s wheeze in Maqbool.
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