Jawan is an epic action movie with a team headed by Shah Rukh Khan’s character to help the people! The title of the film translates to “soldier.” Atlee is the director and co-writer of Jawan and he also directed and co-wrote the sports Tamil drama, Bigil (2019) translated as Whistle. Atlee appears in the movie during one of the songs. The co-writer is S. Ramagirivasan who also worked on Bigil. The other writer is Shanoor Mirza. The film stars Khan who also starred in this year’s action movie, Pathaan. It topped Pathaan’s opening weekend box office for a Hindi film. The challenge of the movie for me is its run time at two hours and 45 minutes. It seriously needs the interlude which was missing from the US showing. If you are able to get through the run time, then the movie offers some action and dramatic rewards!
On India’s border, it seems like Tibet, we see a waterfall, and this moves to a person floating in a river. Some farmers find the wounded man and he is taken to a village on a black horse. A village elder wraps him in bandages almost like a figure of horror. It shifts to “Few Months Later”, there is a festival when the village is attacked. It is violent with a child shot and a horse on fire. This is a caution to anyone who will find the content difficult to watch, but it is intended for dramatic effect. A soldier points a gun at a child and his mother. An elderly man pleads at the foot of a statue for help. A spear slaps away the gun. Then, a shadow falls on the soldiers to the statue. On a cliff above the village, highlighted by storm clouds, is the figure of the bandaged man with a spear!
He leaps with the spear to attack the soldiers! The bandaged man is pure vengeance, he rips through the soldiers, but is struck by a torch. This sets his head on fire and burns away the bandages to reveal his face (Khan)! The unknown man defeats all of the soldiers and the villages bow to him. He asks, “Who am I?” and the boy says he will discover his identity. This moves to “30 Years Later” in Mumbai. A pregnant woman boards a train. Then, we get several female members of a team; Kalki the Daring (Lehar Khan), Janvi the Composer (Aaliyah Qureishi), and Helena (Sanjeeta Bhattacharya), a master hacker. A car accident is set up by Helena’s computer that stops the train. There are other members introduced, Lakshmi (Priyamani) and Eeram the Doctor (Sanya Malhotra).
The most important of these characters is Eeram, Kalki, and Helena. A clever and trained group of women operatives is awesome, but only a few of them are given background. Their leader, bandaged head, takes out a duffel bag. He is a mastermind who is ten steps ahead of the authorities. In a way, he reminds me of V in V for Vendetta (2005), distinctive in his bandages. The group takes out guns to take the train hostage. At the National Security Guard (NSG) office, the captain, Narmada Rai (Nayanthara) is informed about the situation. Nayanthara appeared in the thriller Connect (2022). A police officer faces the leader and catches his bandage, the leader spins, pulling off the bandages to reveal Khan’s character now bald. The train’s security camera is activated and the leader shoots a woman in robes!
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