Sam Bahadur movie review: Vicky Kaushal aptly emulates Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw to showcase his awe-inspiring journey

Sam Bahadur, the film made in the lowest budget of this year, summed up his entire life in two and a half hours. The film is based on four decades of the army, five wars, anti-militant operations and relations with Prime Ministers. Mainly, Meghna Gulzar’s biopic feels a little rushed. But it will definitely keep you engaged. It will never let you feel bored in any scene.
Starring Vicky Kaushal in a dynamic performance, it presents a dynamic portrait of Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamsetji Manekshaw, a gentleman and an officer whose grit and bravery, liveliness, wit and unwavering sense of purpose .

More of an action-heavy war film than a very complex biography, Sam Bahadur delivers on most of its commitments. It has a mixture of a fantastic life and story – it is not exactly a rags to riches affair, although it begins with the hero as a newborn baby – with the adventures of a great army man. who performed very poorly in his duties as a soldier and a leader

Bhavani Iyer, Shantanu Srivastava and Meghna Gulzar’s film Sam Bahadur very cleverly chooses those incidents and encounters which makes the picture look very interesting. About an individual as well as a country, Sam Bahadur has a small touch of detail and an intriguing history.

The film jumps from one point in time, from the early 1940s (when Japanese troops march into Burma) to the early 1970s (when the Indian Army enters Bangladesh’s liberation war). But it doesn’t matter how obvious the gaps are,
The screenwriter adds enough masala meat to the short story to be able to do justice to the charismatic general whose career traces the course of the country’s eventful history before and after independence.

Tiger-3 Vs Sam Bahadur
I fight to win, Manekshaw often emphasizes in so many words. This makes him look like an amazing Hindi action film hero. But the director takes special care not to turn the hero into a larger-than-life figure – which he probably was to the people he led.

Keeping the hysteria out of history, she presents the great soldier not as a single-minded, punchline-spouting general but as a believable human being – a man of conviction – intelligent, self-confident and cocky – and a master. A strategist who enjoys speaking his mind.

The Sam Bahadur we see on screen is not the Bollywood version of a hero from the pages of Indian military history, but a man with his roots in the real world, but who is driven by extraordinary skill and courage of conviction. Is prosperous.

What is in a name? In the case of Sam Manekshaw, as the film about him tells us, there is a lot more. In the opening sequence, we learn that Sam’s parents named him Cyrus, but they were forced to change his name because a thief named Cyrus was caught in the neighborhood.

In the next scene – this is repeated later in the film Sam Bahadur – an 8th Gorkha Rifles soldier, when Manekshaw asks him if he knows the name of the Indian Army Chief, shouts “Sam Bahadur”. Appropriate nickname sticks.

Played by Vicky Kaushal, who walks a tight rope between satire and authenticity and never leans in favor of the former, Sam Manekshaw emerges as a man and icon who was both extremely charming and terrifyingly convincing.