Seldom do we have amazing war dramas made in India. The Ghazi Attack breaks the mould to give us an edge of seat, gripping movie. Not many know about this war and I'm among them. Though the movie is a work of fiction and the events have been dramatized, the premise is the same.

The movie has an ensemble cast consisting of Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Rana Duggabati. All 3 deliver power packed performance which add to the amazingness of the movie. We also get to see how a submarine works with detailed sets of the interiors of a submarine. Most of the other underwater scenes are courtesy special effects which are mildly average to be very frank. The movie is very tight with just a little over 120 minutes and does not feel stretched even a bit.

The movie beautifully shows the internal conflict in between the indian naval officers. It adds to depth of the film . Sankalp Reddy does a fine job considering this is his directorial debut. He lets the movie stay in its genre and does not indulge in mainstream elements to try and sell the movie. Patriotism and nationalism is high in the film as expected. The unique experience the movie offers being an underwater film is reason enough to watch it.

Ghazi Attack is India's first underwater war movie based on a real encounter between warships of India and Pakistan during the war in 1971. But in the movie ships have been replaced with submarines, from both sides.

But the movie is totally fictional which just uses that encounter as an "excuse". Even the ending does not match with what may've actually happened to the Pakistani warship (a possible explanation is given after the End of the film) .

The Ghazi Attack is a simple but very watchable thrilling war movie.

MERITS of Ghazi Attack

1 - No melodrama. No meaningless songs. No unnecessary sub-plots. No Dialoguebazi.

It is a movie that sticks to the main point from start-to-finish.

This has to be stated explicitly - what with all the "bad habits" that Indian films are historically (in)famous for.

2 - The background music is thrilling and matches the foreground (or underground) activities.

3 - Visual effects are great! The Submarine scenes (below the sea and on the surface) are very realistic.

4 - Every film story thrives on some "relational conflict" or the other. The one between Rana Dagubatti (a law-abiding officer) and KK Menon (a rebellious captain who wants to do things his own way) creates the right tension in a sensitive war environment, that too well below the sea.

5 - The Pakistani Torpedo attacks on the Indian submarine is thrilling to watch! Edge-of-the-seat entertainment!

But I've NO interest in revealing the results of these attacks. Just go and see it for yourself.

6 - The official/technical dialogues between the crew members in the submarine sounds very realistic. And that is how it should be - not some airy-fairy self-created dialogues.

7 - The disaster that struck the inside of the Indian submarine, when it went too deep in the sea, is well-shot and looks realistic.

8 - Sankalp Reddy, in only his first Hindi film as a director has done a commendable job.

The DEMERITS of Ghazi Attack

1 - Tapasee Paanu's role is that of a mere "extra". She has nothing to do except utter a few lines, dress injured crew members and remain inside the submarine cabin with a child, after being rescued at sea.

That's it! 2 - The BLAST that followed the Pakistani torpedo attack on a Indian passenger ship did not look realistic at all. It looked very "video gameish"!

You don't get bored any time. You can enjoy more if you don't know the actual story. The movie builds up good till interval and runs parallel to history, but towards the later half, in process of adding thrill to the original story, the depiction becomes a bit unrealistic and hard to digest and ends up being over-dramatised! Nevertheless, the cast is great. KK Menon is once again phenomenal. Tapsee takes mannequin challenge into the movie. Rana plays fine. Conclusively, the movie can be called a one-time watch for the sake of portraying the pivotal mission triggering 1971 war.