Yudhra Movie Review: Siddhant Chaturvedi Actioner Begins Strong but Falls to Predictability; Mixed Reviews & Download Link

Yudhra Movie Review: Siddhant Chaturvedi is new enough to bring life to his role as an undercover cop and he tries hard but apart from a few moments he seems like just a competent actor doing odd jobs. Yudra, starring Siddhant Chaturvedi and Raghav Juyal, hits theatres today. Here's what movie buffs are saying about the action film

Yudhra Movie Review

The Film begins with the conventional way of portraying a tragic incident of the Protagonist before his birth. Gradually the pace of the screenplay increases with a very average & flat screenplay writing skills. Although the protagonist & the antagonist tried to portray their skills sincerely still fails to leave an impact. The only stuff that should be appreciated is the “Action Sequence” which was quite good & interesting. I think thriller doesn’t only mean impactful bgm & cinematography. It should also have a gripping screenplay & plot of the story.

Yudhra Movie Review 2024:- Siddhant Chaturvedi-Raghav Juyal get mixed response

A boy born angry - very, very angry - grows up to be a young man prone to flying off the handle at the slightest pretext. He is rusticated from school for nearly killing a classmate. Years later, as a trainee cadet, he beats a man to a pulp.

Welcome to the world of the eponymous protagonist of Yudhra, a perpetually fuming guy whose revenge saga begins in the womb of his mother. She dies minutes before the boy is delivered. He carries the burden of that tragedy all through the film although, not surprisingly, it is only one-third of the way in that he learns of the circumstances of his birth.

Residual anger frequently blows up into all-consuming fury. It causes the orphan (played by Siddhant Chaturvedi) much trouble and grief. His well-wishers, colleagues of his deceased police officer-father, have a hard time dealing with his meltdowns.

There are points when his foster father, Kartik Rathore (Gajraj Rao), his deceased father's friend in the police force, all but gives up on him. Another police officer, Rehman Siddiqui (Ram Kapoor), always has the boy's back despite his innate reluctance to give anybody a patient hearing.

Rehman's daughter Nikath (Malavika Mohanan) and Yudra have known each other since childhood. Inevitably, that bond comes to the fore at the end of the film, when the protagonist has his back against the wall and has no choice but to fight.

After repeated altercations, Yudra is sent to the Officer Cadet School in Pune, where he gets into a violent brawl with a group of civilians before the annual campus ball. He is court-martialed and sentenced to nine months in prison.

It's not just his anger, everything about this young man is extreme. The prison he is sent to is Desh Ka Sabse Katarnak Prison. The organization is controlled by two rival gangs, one of which reports to the country's most feared drug lord Firoz (Raj Arjun). He brings the worst of himself - or the best, depending on how you look at it.

Someone had the brilliant idea that this stubborn boy would be better off channeling his anger into a righteous cause - anti-drug efforts. From then on, one event leads to another and Yudra finds himself in the middle of an all-out war sparked by the disappearance of a 5,000-kilogram cocaine shipment from a Chinese drug cartel.

Yudra has to fight Firoz and his insane son Shafiq (Raghav Juyal) to protect Nikhat Siddiqui. Not that this spirited woman, a bright student with a full scholarship to a European university, needs any protection. When things threaten to spin out of control, she, too, acts instantly like a seasoned professional.

Written by Sridhar Raghavan, directed by Ravi Udyawar, and produced by Farhan Akhtar (one of the dialogue writers of the film) and Ritesh Sidhwani, Yudra is by no means a film lacking in energy and courage. It is packed with high-tension action scenes where blood, fire, electricity, and explosions reign supreme.

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The problem with Yudra is that it never quite takes a breather. It's relentlessly violent and certainly not for the faint of heart, but the firepower and constant sizzle that thrillers employ are never enough to build up enough intensity to capture and sustain the audience's interest for any length of time. It just clicks sporadically.

The direction, of course, is impressive and powerful throughout. Cinematographer Jay Pinnak Oza gives the film a sort of enduring surface sheen that remains unfazed even when the story veers into unpredictable territory. Editors Tushar Paresh and Anand Subaya do their best to pace Yudra's 142 minutes, with blood-red dissolves and quick cuts where appropriate.

But none of the engineering tricks, no matter how well employed, can save Yudra from its unevenness. The film is stilted, sterile, trite, and superficial, but it's far from always stupid. It's hard not to root for our troubled protagonist.

It's a brooding man with a lizard on his right shoulder. There's a story behind it. During his school days, he rescues a lizard injured by a classmate, names the reptile Lizzy, and develops a deep bond with her. It's one of the creatures he becomes attached to, but now it's been taken from him and he's hungry for revenge.

The character is said to spit fire and burn everything around him. That is exactly what he does, but the impact of his violent acts and the string of losses he suffers are not lasting. The boyish Siddhant Chaturvedi, with his face like an inscrutable mask devoid of emotion, does not exude enough manic energy to make his attacks believable.

The key revelation, first revealed during the film's intermission, is delivered in an artificial way that is predictable miles away. The vengeful hero flies from foe to foe, and the target keeps moving, with each new secret revealed.

The chemistry between the male lead and Malavika Mohanan (in her first Hindi film) is weak. There are persistent attempts to set the mood, though they do not lead to the desired outcome. Mohanan's character is the only woman (barring Shilpa Shukla's cameo) in a male-centric film conspicuous by its absent maternal presence. That's why she stands out.

The male protagonist's mother died before he was born, the heroine's father is a widow, Kartik Rathore, a police officer and politician, appears to be single, and Shafiq, the butcher's grandson and drug dealer's son, moves into a dehumanized realm where women do not exist.

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Yudhra movie cast: Siddhant Chaturvedi, Raghav Juyal, Malavika Mohanan, Garjraj Rao, Ram Kapoor, Raj Arjun, Shilpa Shukla
Yudhra movie director: Ravi Udyawar