Review by uprashanthnayak

'Jawan' is a terribly made film about a group of vigilantes who hold the government to ransom and then surprisingly make it do good deeds. All this is just re-treaded territory, first ignited by visionary mass director S. Shankar, and now Atlee, his former assistant director, who does his usual lazy shtick by simply rehashing the old stuff with overboiled, done-to-death, screamingly melodramatic direction - I badly wanted to exit the theatre at the 1.5 hour mark but forced myself to finish the nearly 3 hour punishment.

It is painful to see storied superstar Shah Rukh Khan degenerating so badly in the later decades of his career. This artiste who toplined such excellent movies as DDLJ, Dil Se, Devdas, Asoka, Swades has stopped caring about quality from a long time and only lusts after more box office triumphs no matter how shoddy his recent films are. Notice he has long since stopped working with good directors and the few good ones he has recently worked with have been compromised by poor collaboration (Imtiaz Ali - 'Jab Harry Met Sejal').

Vijay Sethupathi's acting deficiencies are severely exposed, while the performances across the board are mediocre. Good taste and cinematic quality are repeatedly butchered in 'Jawan' in the relentless hail of gunfire that drags on here - SRK meanwhile has his champion sights firmly fixed on the Rs.1000 crore box office mark. Upnworld.