REVIEW OF THE MOVIE PHANTOM

                                              

 PHANTOM

PRODUCTION HOUSE : UTV & NADIADWALA GRANDSON

PRODUCER : SIDDARTH ROY KAPOOR AND SAAJID NADIADWALA

DIRECTOR : KABIR KHAN

CAST  :  SAIF ALI KHAN , KATRINA KAIF




Plot  :  The story is based on true incident of 26/11 terrorist 2008 attacks on Mumbai , in which around 166 people were dead , even today after 8 years still the master mind behind the attacks are freely roaming , How the attacks were planned and who those people were is all visualised in a book named Mumbai Avengers by Hussain Zaidi , the Movie phantom is based on this book , Some part of the movie ie based on true incident and some fiction , The story revolves around Daniyal khan and Indian soldier , who unfortunately is alleged of being a loser and a traitor due to some misunderstanding so much so that his own father turns against him , Daniyal (saif ali khan ) , after the incident lives a nomadic life somewhr in extreme snow peaked area of  Kashmir , On the other hand personells of the raw agency who are the secret service agent of India , they are restlessly thinking that even after 8 years the master mind of Mumbai attacks are free , why can't India also take revenge of attacks like America took by entering Pakistan and destroying Osama bin laden ,One of the raw agent samit Mishra keeps a propasl of entering Pakistan secretly and killing the master mind in front of his bureau chief , but gttng permission for this mission from the high commission is impossible , so the chief of the bureau takes upon his shoulders the responsibility of completing this mission , but for that they wanted a person capable and strong to complete the mission , on doing lots of research they zero in on daniyal khan , who upon approach refuses to carry out the mission , but on the promise that his honour and his post in Indian Army will be given back to him , he agrees to go on this mission , on this mission he is joined by Katrina kaif who is am ex raw agent and currently arms and ammunition supplier to security agencies across the globe based in London , how daniyal along with the help of Katrina succeed in  killing the terrorist , his journey begins in London onto canand , beerut , Syria and finally in Pakistan , how he plans and kill those people , does he succeed in completing his mission and whether he gets back his honour is all worth watching ,


Saif Ali Khan has given a terrific performance , also Katrina is good , the direction  by Kabir Khan is good , but the strory loses its grip and speed in the 2nd half of the movie , first part is action packed but 2nd half half is dull , The locations are fantastic and cinematography is excellent as we know it is Kabir khan speciality read bajrangi bhaijaan , these are such locales like Syria and beerut which are difficult to access , hats off to director to shoot a movie in such locations .

The music is negligible as the movie does not reqire it as it is not a love strory , background score is good

All in all a good watch this festive weekend

We wish that such mission becomes true and India gets its justice

Verdict : 3*/5*

Jai Hind