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Shoestring budget, obscure cast and a more-than-fantastic biopic! Smooth, like a well lubricated machine, is how it flows through its three-hour tenure. The movie is surprisingly well-made, and is easily one of the better biopics in recent memory. But more importantly, it's the proverbial 'Red-Pill', the truth-serum to the history of the last 50 years of Indian independence movement, and the tragic story of one of its true catalysts.

The story of Savarkar had been suppressed, buried, distorted and drowned in falsehood since independence. Yet, even today, he stands as one of modern India's greatest ideologues, inspiring millions. The movie answers the inevitable 'why'; and plants that tiny seed of doubt pertaining to the 'heroes' imposed on the country, and the 'villains' marked-out for inglory, and their real, true selves.

The story and its timeline corroborate with historical documents and contemporary texts. Its storytelling is matured, transitions ungaped, and the chronology takes into account all the relevant facts, without losing its fizzle.

Hooda truely lives the indomitable spirit, steel-grit and charisma of the protagonist. The supporting cast too provides the fitting traction the movie needed.

To the truth-seeker, it would remain an important cine-document.

Just terrible, to be on the kinder side. It's like a purchased msm pushing a paid-for propaganda, regardless of its absurdity. As flimsy as a tik tok video, rather than a trustworthy factual cine document. When one pushes his luck too hard, banking everything on the current political polarization without actually presenting anything worthy or of value, only then you do get something as pathetic as this self-proclaimed 'documentary'. Seems like a failed effort at reenacting Wag the Dog in real life by the current ruling dispensation, trying to authenticate without evidence. Wasted money, wasted time.

PS Don't go if you are scared of the dark, because you would be all alone.