Director Ramesh Sippy made the film ‘Shakti’ with Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar. If you have seen this film, then while watching ‘Sarzmin’, Shakti will be remembered again and again because the original plot of the film is very similar. Backgrounds and characters have been slightly reshuffled.
Directed by Kayoze Irani, ‘Sarzmin’ is a film that tries to touch serious topics like army, family and terrorism, but looks so scattered at the level of screenplay and sensation that the audience is not able to join nor avoid getting annoyed.
Vikram (Prithviraj Sukumaran), a strict and disciplined army officer posted in Kashmir, lives with his wife Meher (Kajol) and son Harman (Ibrahim Ali Khan). Harman has a problem of stuttering, which always makes Meher feel that Vikram is ashamed of his son.
When Vikram arrests a dangerous terrorist Mohsin and his brother, the terrorists in return kidnap his son Harman. From here, morality vs. a strange battle of paternity. Vikram does not leave patriotism even at the cost of his son’s life.
Eight years later, Harman returns as a changed young man, but now he is a terrorist who has been given the mission to kill his father himself. From here the film gets entangled in an emotional and political web, where every character’s past gradually opens. The biggest twist comes when it opens with Meher.
The basic idea of the film is as powerful, it could not succeed in putting it on the screen. The author of the film has repeatedly rotated the script through convenient turns. The feelings of many characters seem incomplete and the reason for hating Harman’s father is never completely clear to the audience. The shortcomings of the script emerge repeatedly while watching the entire film and do not let the audience connect with the film.
The alleged ’embarrassment’ of Vikram’s stuttering of Harman also does not reach the audience properly. Apart from this, both Meher and Harman should have understood that the country comes first for a military officer. Do they not understand so much.
The film confuses the audience at many places. Should he consider the army officer wrong who refused to save his son? Should he consider a brainwash terrorist who wants to kill his own father now? The film does not give any clear answer to these questions, just make noise of emotion.
The direction of Kayoze Irani from above is also breathless. His style of telling the story is very average and he did not show any creativity in it.
Prithviraj Sukumaran has shown seriousness in performance as an army officer, but the script does not condes his character. Looking at Kajol, it seems that he did not trust the complexity of his character himself. Ibrahim Ali Khan’s acting is average, and the trauma that his character had to face, he does not reflect in his acting.
Cinematography is good, but the grandeur of visuals does not save the story. In music, the song “Mere Murshid Mere Yara” definitely leaves effect, but the rest of the tracks are faded. The action sequence has power, but they are unable to connect with the plot.
‘Sarzemin’ was a possibility-filled film that could become a serious political thriller with the help of better writing and direction. But instead it looks like an old -era overdramatic film, which has less logic and showing more shaking. Its twist and turns are shocked instead of shocking and instead of sympathizing with the characters, you keep searching in them.
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director: Kayoze Irani
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Movie: Sarzameen (2025)
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Song: Kausar Munir, Jani
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music: Vishal Khurana’s, Vishal Mishra
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artist: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Kajol, Ibrahim Ali Khan, Boman Irani, Jitendra Joshi
- Rating: 1.5/5
