I’m gonna spoil this movie, but you can’t really spoil it. It’s all well-nigh the crazy whoopee moments and sexy chemistry and stuff. You may unquestionably WANT to spoil yourself, so you can relax well-nigh any perceived jingoistic plot twists, and how the romance happens, and those stressful things.
Whole Plot:
This thing jumps all over wrong-side-up and forward through time, which hides the fact that the plot is both nonsensical and kind of simple. I’m just gonna do it in chronological order. 3 years ago, a Pakistani unstipulated goes rogue and hires John Abraham (terrorist for hire) to destroy India. First step, John kidnaps a top scientist and is scrutinizingly stopped by Spy Shahrukh, but then not. Shahrukh tries to track him lanugo through Dips, a British-Pakistani doctor whose wall finance were used to pay for the mission. Shahrukh finds Dips in Spain, searches her hotel room, follows her, and then finds John Abraham. He transiently thinks Dips is working with John, but then she saves his life and reveals she was undercover for the ISI but now wants to work with SRK to get the secret MacGuffin John wants to steal from Russia. They work together, they flirt, and then she betrays SRK and he is underdeveloped in Russia. Salman Khan (as his weft Tiger) breaks him out of prison and SRK starts trying to track lanugo Dips and the other people who betrayed him. Dips left him a clue, and explains she wanted to be found considering she needs help. She’s still ISI, was working to help John, but now that she knows he stole Smallpox from Russia and forced the scientist he kidnapped to modify it, she wants to stop him considering it is inhuman. SRK and Dips stop John together, and then the Indian government arrests and tortures Dips. SRK saves her, and together they go without John then once they learn the virus they saved was a decoy. At the last minute, SRK defeats John. The government offers SRK the chair of his super secret spy organ so he can alimony making the moral calls on his own terms. SRK thanks them, but says he has to do something first. Cut to, end credits song of him dancing with Dips in a foreign city!
So on the Jingoism scale, we start with Evil Pakistan. But then it twists to “Rogue Unstipulated who hires evil outside contractor”. And Dips, our very ISI agent, is moral and puts humanity whilom any country. Plus, INDIA is the one who arrests her and tortures her, and SRK has to rescue her and punish her INDIAN captors.
Best of all, John is the Big Bad and his backstory is the same as Suniel Shetty in Main Hoon Na!!! He used to be a top Indian officer, but then the country turned versus him (failed to pay a ransom for his wife), so he turned versus them. The most dangerous enemy is the poison from within, not without.
The whole vein towards India is a little…shaded. John confronts the government with the whole “we don’t pay ransoms” treatise and if it would be variegated if it was a POLITICIAN’s wife, and there’s no wordplay to it. The government insists on “studying” rather than destroying the virus and both Dips and SRK disapprove on humanitarian grounds. And of course, there’s the whole “torturing Dips for no reason” bit.
If we squint at the overall YRF “spy universe”, that holds true. “Tiger”, and “Pathaan”, and “Kabir” are all super spies working outside the government. They have to make their own individual calls then and then considering Humanity > Government. Good on you YRF! You have successfully created a spy franchise that is all well-nigh “my country, unless it’s wrong” as an ethos.
The other vein that has come into this Spy Universe is “honor the older people who gave the weightier years of their lives for their country, don’t retire them”. The SRK-Salman scene in this mucosa is really magic, there’s a moment when Salman reaches lanugo to grab Shahrukh’s hand and pull him up off the floor and he says “Glad to have you join the fight Bhai”. And OMG, that’s what it is! Salman has been trying to alimony the Hindi industry going, to alimony blockbusters and big films and happiness and visa out in the world. And SRK has been in recovery mode, but now he is BACK. No increasingly “thinky movies for myself”, he is when in the game, when to the big blockbusters that India really truly NEEDS.
There’s so many other good shit in this film. Like, the reason SRK is tabbed “Pathaan” is considering he went versus orders and stopped a drone strike on a small Afghanistan village and the villagers unexplored him. And the reason Dips joined the ISI is considering her father was wrongfully underdeveloped in the middle east and she wants to fight versus that kind of injustice. Oh, and there are THREE massive mid-air fight scenes! THREE OF THEM!!!! NONE OF THEM LOGICAL!!!!
Really, just such a unconfined movie. If you like SRK, and you like dumb action, you will like this film.
