KANDAHAAR ---- Mission Failed

Ever since the superhit keerthichakra and the critically acclaimed Mission 90days,Major Ravi has been finding the going tough.With a below average kurukshethra the signs of him running out of stock was pretty evident.Kandahar proves you right.Though stuffed with some sequences picked from the Kandahar incident,the movie fails to fall in place.

The Kandahar episode is shown in the background of captain Suryas life,who is influenced by major Mahadevan to join the army.Son of a teacher (Amitabh bachan) Surya (Ganesh) was another frustrated youngster untill meeting major.Rest of the movie and the characters simply mirrors what you seen in majors previous movies.As major is limiting himself to military movies,he has limited scope of introducing new characters.The success for such plots depends too much on a taut screenplay,with flawless pacy direction and editing.Kandahar backed by apoor script falters even more with the execution.The much hyped hijack rescue operation was all shown with minimal perfection of a commando operation,the best example being the way commandos run into the hijacked plane without the hijackers notice and then planting in a hidden camera right in an area exposed to the terrorists.The Hijack part graphics was poorly done that the miniature model of the plane crashing looked silly.

BigB's first ever malayalam role unfortunately isn't a remarkable one.The role is well executed by him but an overdose of sentiments for the character doesnt seems to impress the viewers.Those who had thronged in to watch Majors heroics were obiviously disappointed by a cakewalk role for Mohanlal.Ganesh Venkittaraman couldnt hide his difficulties in expressing himself in a language unknown to him.Major ravis role looked amateurish and further helped in bringing the audience down. KPAC lalitha has used her experience well enough to effectively portray her role.Songs did not impress in the first hearing.

Major needs to pen out a good script rather than churning out movies just around any military episode.Maybe he can try out a non-military flick.Kandahar emphasises this.

2/5 as a courtesy to the Indian Army .