And it happens yet again. We take an amazing script, screenplay and dialogues from a Hollywood movie and mess it up. Ironically, A few Good Men is one of the movies in my wishlist to be remade ! ( refer to http://superdoc-betweenthelines.blogspot.com/2008/03/scene-by-scene.html)
Shaurya has many things working against it...
- Kay Kay Menon seems too young to be a Brigadier, Javed Jaffrey looks older than him !
- The whole Rahul Bose and Minnisha Lamba track is unnecessary. In A few Good Men, there is not even a hint of romance between Demi Moore and Tom Cruise.
- Why have weird scenes like the wedding inside the house in the middle of the night ?
- Somehow whenever the director tries to show us a different shot, like Minnisha Lamba helping Amrita Rao wipe the glasses, it just seems fake.
- All Rahul Bose does is instigate Menon in blurting out his crime, that too in a matter of 10 min. Compare that to the detailed gathering of evidence and the climax courtroom scene in A few Good Men.
- The viewer is left clueless till the very end, about the contents of the all important file that Amrita Rao sends Rahul Bose.
- The personal vendetta and the Hindu- Muslim angle is almost laughable
The only places where Shaurya redeems itself is the 2-3 scenes with Menon and Bose interacting. Especially when Menon is narrating the story of Bose's father to him, the fire in Bose's eyes is worth a good chunk of the ticket price. But the standout scene is the flashback, when we see the murder as it actually happened.
Final word: See it if you havent seen A few Good Men. If you have, stay far away.
Rating : 2 stars
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