A Few Good Men and Shaurya | Mega Review | Critique

Everywhere, across borders, in the name discipline some brutal crimes are committed. Sometimes common man is a victim and sometime a person who decides to take a stand suffers. Many people are party to such crime. Some do it because they want it to happen that way and some simply surrender to higher authorities. Honor of the insignia doesn't lie with them. It stands tall with those who decide to take a position against the wrong. Two movies in this discussion: A Few Good Men and Shaurya highlight the same.

Shaurya is highly inspired by A Few Good Men and can be considered to be one of the better rip-offs of our time. There is a sincere effort apparent from the execution of movie and work on script. A defence official (two officials in case of AFGM) is arrested and his case is going to be heard. A lawyer is going to represent him who is not much interested in proving him innocent. He wants minimum punishment. The accused is silent and maintains that what he did, he did for his country. In Shaurya, the officer takes stand against a communal senior and in AFGM, two marines accidently kills a fellow on order by a senior. Things fall into right slots and the lawyer realises what he should do.

Tom Cruise's character and Rahul Bose's character are very similar but a few dissimilar complexities. The same can be said about Jack Nicholsan's character and that of KK. Demi Moore's Role was reduced to a minuscule on played by Minissha Lamba. All six did justice to their roles, though the senior ones i.e. Nicholsan and KK stole the show. The last scenes in both the movies are almost identical and the way it finishes keeps you mesmerized. You cannot say that Shaurya is an original movie but you won't say that it is made badly.

Watch both the movies with an open mind. In my opinion, watch AFGM first and then follow it up with Shaurya. Watch Shaurya not for the story but for few brilliant dialogs. If you like the dialog between Jack, Demi and Tom in Guatemala then you will appreciate the dialogues between KK and Rahul. And don’t miss the climax of AFGM. Its considered to be one of the greatest courtroom dramas.

ritten By: Sujoy Ghosh