Sky Force
Dir: Abhishek Anil Kapur, Sandeep Kewlani
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Veer Pahariya
Rating: 4/5

Stepping out of the Sky Force screening, one heard, “Were the expectations low, or was the film actually good?” The answer to which is both. A new patriotic film has arrived in cinemas. A fatigue for the genre has set in over time. And not unfairly so. So, one enters the press show of the Akshay Kumar-starrer expecting too little and nothing new. What one gets is a pleasant surprise.

Abhishek Anil Kapur and Sandeep Kewlani’s directorial venture has a decent emotional beat, and thrilling aerial action sequences, and also brings its hero back in full form. Based on India’s retaliatory attack on Pakistan’s Sargodha airbase during the 1965 Indo-Pak war, Sky Force centres on two Air Force pilots, KO Ahuja (Kumar) and T Vijaya (Veer Pahariya in his acting debut).