Movie Review

                    URI : THE SURGICAL  STRIKE 

            Directed by : Aditya Dhar

            Produced by : Ronny Screwvala

            Screen play by : Aditya Dhar 

            Starring : Vicky Kaushal

                                Yami Gautam

                                Paresh Rawal

                                Mohit Raina

                                Kirti Kulhari

        Releasing date : 11 January 2019

                         The film divided into seven parts. The first chapter open with an ambush in June 2015 on the convoy of the  Indian Army troops in chandel , Manipur by NSCN militants.In relation major Vihaan Singh shergill , Para SF Officer and his unit including his brother in law Major Karan Kashyap infiltrate and attack the North eastern militants and also kill its key leader responsible for the ambush. After a successful strike the Prime Minister of India congratulate him and whole unit at the formal dinner .Vihaan request an early retirement as he wants to be close with his mother who is suffering from stage IV Alzheimer's on which the prime minister offers him mother instead of retirement to which he agrees.

                                The second chapter shows Vihaan taking a desk job at the integrated defence staff in New Delhi and him spending time with his family. This segment also shows a brief description of the Pathankot attack. A nurse named Jasmine d' Almeida is assigned to take care of Vihaan's mother .Vihaan meets an Indian air force pilot named flight Lieutenant Seerat kaur who is trying to prove her patriotism to her deceads husband who was an army officer who died in an ambush. One fine day his mother goes missing. He researches for her and he blames Jasmine for ignorence and tells Jasmine that there is no need of security. Vihaan's mother is found under a bridge and Jasmine reveals herself as an intelligence agent.                                       

                      On September 2016 four heavily armed militants attack the brigade headquarters  at Uri , Jammu and Kashmir at dawn killing 19 soldiers in their sleep. The terrorist are killed but Karan dies in grenude explosion due to 

accidentally pulling the pin which was attached to the terrorist's rifle which he picked up to examine it. The whole family become devastate including Vihaan. The ministry decided to take strick action against the attack. National Security advisor Govind Bhardawaj suggest the idea of Surgical Strike. The prime Minister Narendra Modi gives it go and gives ten days for the strike. Vihaan leaves his desk job and leaves for Northern Command base in Udhampur. He request General Arjun Singh Rajawat to count him in the operation to which he agrees. Vihaan chooses the elite Ghatak Force Commandos from the Bihar Regiment and the Dogra Regiment along with the special forces as most of the soldiers killed in the attack were from these regiments.                                     

                         During the planning,Govind ropes in ISRO for providing Sattelite images, DRDO for surveinace and RAW for intelligence. At DRDO he meets an intern named Ishaan who had developed a drone called 'Garuda' which looks and shaped like an Eagle with the helps of the drones and satellites images they are able to get exact location of the hideout and training camps of the terrorists. Jasmine reveals her true name as Pallavi Sharma to Vihaan. During an interrogation ,Vihaan and Pallavi are able to get the information about the handlers of the attack. He chooses Seerat to be his pilot, Govind also suggest to intensify the artillery shelling at the border for distraction and also to paint theire assault helicopters with Pakistan Air Force markings. The commandos also start training under Vihaan. The Pakistani officials suspect the Indian activities but dismiss it due to underestimation.

                       On the night of 28th  September the commandos leave for the strike in "Pakistan Occupied Kashmir "(POK) in Mi-17 helicopters . During the mission Vihaan's helicopter is forced not to cross the line of control due to latest intelligences from spies in Pakistan that the Pakistan army has deployed an "AWAC" early warning reader based surface to air missile system to bring their helicopter down .Vihaan improvises by going on foot through a cave . His team successfully infiltrate and kill all the terrorists on the two launchpads. Similarly other commandos team also manage to kill all of the terrorists. Vihaan kills Idris the main perpetrator of the Uri attack in a hand to hand combat. The local police are alerted and the commandos who are low on ammunituon and time escape on their way back, they are heavily rained down  upon by gunfire from both a nearby machine gun bunker and a Pakistani air force MI -17 helicopter which was scrambled to intercept Vihaan's team . Captain Seerat comes to their rescue by firing back both at the Pakistani gunship thus driving it away and eliminating the machine gun bunker , Vihaan's team successfully crosses Loe on the Indian side with no casualties. The rest of the assigned team are also successful and are back with no casualties.  Vihaan lands at Hindon Air Force station at Ghaziabad. Pallavi gets acqainted with Seerat. The film ends with Vihaan , Pallavi , Govind and the commandos happily having a former dinner with the Minister.