Sooryavanshi is an action movie starring Akshay Kumar and Directed by Rohit Shetty. This was the first movie to get released in cinemas after COVID 19 outbreak and audiences had huge expectations. Now if we talk about how the movie actually was,there is nothing new in Suryavanshi, an average plot, unnecessary loud background music almost at every second scene and action scenes, action scenes were like just to show the fitness of Akshay Kumar, (which he is, we all know, but still you can clearly observe when he made his landing by rope,), a not so needed extended climax, just to fit simba and singham, (in the film, so many times it has been discussed that how many sleeper sail agents are there, so at the end when body is falling everywhere, you may left wondering, how many of them are getting alive again and again), poorly inserted song, poorly written romance. I mean if you watch the scene where Suryavanshi meets Ria,( whose character is played by Katrina Kaif) first time, you have no choice but to wonder, this is 2021, and still these types of scene are able to make in final cut.. how?
The only good thing about the whole movie is its comedy part, it feels like some fresh breeze in the comedy scenes, whether it’s ak or ranveer, both shines and make us laugh. Rohit Shetty should stick to the comedy, he is really master in that craft. Just take example of Golmaal returns, even though critics bashed it, it has so many funny scenes, just see the repeat value of it.

But critically, Rohit Shetty has fallen for his own trap, he has made a film which he could’ve directed 5-7 years ago while sleepwalking and it would’ve been a success. But, unfortunately, that’s how time works, we’re in living in a world where movies like Singham & Simmba already exist. The intent of milking the popularity of Singham & Simmba’s success to introduce another cop in the universe is so visible that it steals the spotlight from Sooryavanshi.

This also exposes Shetty’s weak link in an extremely brutal way i.e. CGI putting your PowerPoint presentation to shame. The very important helicopter chase scene’s VFX looks straight out of a low-budget-high-ambitions movie. All of this only reminds you of how Neeraj Pandey’s school of filmmaking isn’t an easy one to crack. The 4-minute trailer painfully impacts the excitement you’d else have for the cop-cameos. If you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve already seen all the better parts of Simmba & Singham.

This is a classic example of a director refusing to change the winning formula hence losing the essence of originality. Simmba was contrastingly different than Singham and hence it clicked beautifully well. Sooryavanshi is picking Akshay Kumar from Neeraj Pandey’s world and throwing him amid Rohit Shetty’s ‘car flying universe with lines worse than Housefull 4. He’s even robbed of a dedicated climax sequence with Singham stealing the limelight.