Raazi [2017]

Language - Hindi
Director - Meghna Gulzar
Run Time - 2 hours, 20 minutes
Genre - Thriller
Starring - Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal

Alia Bhatt is the type of actress that arrives once in a generation. At the young age of 25, she has managed to pull off such a variety of roles, and that too with such conviction, it is extraordinary. In Raazi also, she single-handedly manages to carry the film.

Raazi is a spy thriller set in the early days of the India-Pakistan war of 1971. Sehmat Khan is a young and bubbly daughter of an Indian spy who has connections in Pakistan. His impending death due to cancer leads to him asking his daughter to continue in his path. And therein, our story begins as Sehmat is eventually placed in the house of a high-ranking military family in Pakistan as their daughter-in-law.

Although the movie had certain plotholes and was a tad bit on the predictable side, it is still stimulating as Sehmat comes close to being caught many times. Alia Bhatt takes it all in her stride and delivers yet another staggering performance, with Vicky Kaushal and the others playing their parts aptly.

I loved Meghna Gulzar's directing in Talvar, but I feel she fell pretty short here, and the movie could have had more twists, not like the makers of the film have stuck to exactly the true story.

A Solid Watch, mostly for Alia Bhatt's performance.

My Rating - 8.2/10