Overall, ‘Ikkis’ proves to be a fantastic palate cleanser to the nationalistic drama genre, balancing the appetite for action with the very real human costs of war.
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Sakshi is a sub-editor at the Outlook Entertainment Desk. She’s also a documentary filmmaker and mixed-media artist based in Mumbai.
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The film is admirably sturdy, even if it is familiar in its preoccupation with grief and mortality, for it is elevated by a cast that really brings the best out of each other.
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The film delivers a searing meditation on the cost exacted by unbridled power and entitlement, drawn with uncanny precision from the textures of real life. Trehan once again asserts that his storytelling demands attention, refusing to dilute his politics into a neat, palatable “Netflix formula.”
The challenge before Hindi cinema is no longer commercial viability but imaginative courage. Spy films that once relied on complex narratives, moral ambiguity, and high stakes are now using those same tools to increasingly pander to specific demographics, often pitting them against one another.
At a time when the country is choking on polluted air, unsafe water, a cost-of-living crisis, gendered violence, caste discrimination, and countless unresolved failures, it is stunning how the parameter of “love for the nation” is rerouted towards conveniently manufactured communal provocations.
Saali Mohabbat walks boldly into the feminist-crime space, with a quiet fury, even if its ideas don’t always cut as deep as its intentions. And while Chopra’s debut hits and misses some punches, it carries an emotional undercurrent that lingers.
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