Story: Six young men and women accused of murder enlist in a mysterious mission to exchange their freedom and save their families. They find themselves in enemy territory amid a conspiracy that could destroy India. They have to choose between race and family. Who will they save and can they stop the attack?
Review: Writer-director Deena Raj is all set to deliver an action-packed tale of patriotism to stir the youth. And he does this through six characters (three young men and a woman), unnamed but identified as Telugu (Niroj Poocha), Bhojpuri (Subha Ranjan), Nepali (Sonam Thendup Barfunga), Punjabi (Samaira Sandhu). Tripura (Peden and Namgyal), and Bengali (Rajeswari Chakraborty). The film opens with these strangers coming together after mysterious, powerful people promise to save everyone from murder charges and threaten to harm their family members if they don't go on a mission set up for them. The story then moves to their training to cross the buffer zone into enemy country territory, accompanied by a smuggler named Tamil. Whether they manage to avoid the threat makes up the rest of the story.
The core of the movie is patriotism, family values and love, but the writing and treatment is offensive and sloppy. The overused plot of releasing a deadly virus in India and stereotypical villains like the high command officer (Mahendra Bagdas) and his evil son (Phurba Lama) make the story believable or compelling. Although the film seems stretched at 157 minutes, the long-drawn tracks clutter the narrative and the screenplay loses tension with more subplots like a Marathi matriarch hunting her son-in-law to kill her son and secret agents being killed by a rival father-son duo. Many elements seem forced - the love story angle between the characters, the rivalry between Bhojpuri and Telugu, and one of the six being a double agent, etc.
Cinematography (Jaipal Reddy Nimmala) is the only redeeming part of this directionless drama. Performance is below average, though the action is passable. Overall, an unbelievable story, silly narration and over-the-top performances fail to evoke any sort of emotion.
