The two poles apart Bollywood movies Holiday and Filmistaan were released here on Friday. Akshay Kumar -starrer film Holiday- A Soldier Is Never Off Duty received an overwhelming response from Bhopalites and the theatres were almost full on the first day of the film release.
Holiday - A Soldier Is Never off Duty, is another action sequence of Akshay Kumar and no doubt Akshay is one of the best action heros Bollywood has seen in last so many years. The best part of the film is the pratoganist of the movie i.e. Akshay Kumar. Though he did not do anything new in the movie but he has satisfied the need of an action hero to the fullest.
Directed by A Murgadoss, this movies is a remake of a Tamil film Thupakki. Comparing it with Murgadoss’s first Bollywood movies Ghajjini Holiday is not that effective an impactful. This is a story of a military guy Virat who has taken an off from his duty just to visit his hometown and hunt for his bride (Sonakshi Sinha). Just when he visited his home he is seen romancing with his girl and suddenly Mumbai is surrounded with horrified terror attacks. Here the story begins when his holiday turns to a havoc with the terrorist attacks and now it is upto the soldiers to save Mumbai from these attacks.
Sonakshi Sinha playing the female protagonist did not have much to do in the movie other than singing songs and dancing around. Moreover, the lead villain of the film Farhad was also not impactful. On the other hand the film also focuses on sleeper cells as it triggers a fear that anyone from the paanwala to pizza-delivery boy could be a 'closet' terrorist.
Music by Pritam somehow manages to capture the attention of the viewers making their feet tap on the rhythm. Again, Akshay's stunts are jaw-dropping; he's in top form and impressively leads the show without much support from his squadron of actors.