Alpha

Alpha Movie Review Rating:

Star Cast: Alia Bhatt, Sharvari, Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor

Director: Shiv Rawail

What’s Good: Hrithik Roshan in a cameo, background music, and action!

What’s Bad: Almost everything else!

Loo Break: Anytime you want! Even take a nap if you want.

Watch or Not?: No

Language: Hindi

Available On: Theatrical release

Runtime: 2 hours 21 Minutes

User Rating:

Most of the stories have the potential to turn into a good or a bad one! It all depends on how you align the characters and their arcs! But some stories do not have that potential. They start straight from the point of being bizarre, and they end at the same point! A lot of things happen in between, but the story does not make sense! That story is Alpha! Starring Alia Bhatt, Sharvari, and Bobby Deol, along with Anil Kapoor, this film starts at a bizarre point and religiously follows that bizarreness, not making sense even for a second!

The seventh installment of Spy Universe was to be celebrated as the first female-led spy thriller of the Universe, and to be honest, I was too excited. I generally get excited at such possibilities because then there is so much to explore in a new world. But here, director Shiv Rawail refurbishes the same world, putting two women as the only different thing!

But even by that standard, it should make sense, right? Because the previous installments of Tiger and War were gold, and so was Pathaan? So does Alpha belong to the same level? Well, even you know the answer. Everyone who belongs to the film knows the answer, and I wish there could have been some way that could have saved the Spy Universe from this downfall, because this one seems the final nail in the coffin!

Alpha Movie Review: Script Analysis

The story starts with the backstory. We follow the birth of Sita, a courageous girl who is trained to fight and fight endlessly! An Alpha potion has been developed that gives this girl superpowers. Human superpowers, of course! She can dive deeper, she can be underwater without oxygen, she does not need to see while fighting, and so can fight in the darkest part of the room! I mean, many superpowers, so to speak! But Sita is a stolen child. Stolen by Bobby Deol, an ex-Army Officer who believes that Sita belongs to the nation!

Now, who is Sita? Why is she an Alpha? Why did Anil Kapoor, another Army Officer, Sita’s father stole Alpha potion despite knowing it belonged to the nation? Why does Sita hate her sister Durga? And why is Bobby Deol the villain? All of this forms the two-hour narrative of the film, which, trust me, is illogical and bizarre!

Alpha Movie Review: Star Performance

It is genuinely painful to see an actress of Alia Bhatt’s caliber get trapped in a competition that should not belong to her in the first place! One might disagree, but her petite look does not suggest that she can throw ten huge men in a single fight! The absurdity does not end here. She walks into the frame eating French fries, and while this should have looked cool, it looks only absurd and a legit wannabe behavior. She pushes her body to the absolute limit. I mean, the poor woman is doing absolutely everything, running fiercely, lifting men, biking, kicking, punching, but it all feels so undercooked and underprepared!

Moreover, the dialogues completely fail her. You cannot look terrifying when your character is forced to state the obvious every five minutes. She keeps smiling and delivering those dialogues for no reason! Sharvari could have managed to do something here, if she would have been given something apart from picking up sticks and fighting Alia! Coming back to Alia, every single time she said Behen, I was pained! It neither worked as sarcasm nor as an emotion.

Following his antagonist run in Animal and Aashram, Bobby Deol steps into another antagonist avatar. Unfortunately, his character is an absolute caricature of all the previous spy Universe films! An Army Officer betraying the country! At times he is speaking Haryanvi, the other times he is speaking something else, and you won’t get his accent throughout! Anil Kapoor brings a brief sense of maturity to the screen, while Hrithik Roshan’s mandatory crossover cameo as Major Kabir feels completely forced – a desperate attempt to remind the audience that yes, this disaster belongs to the same universe.