Surgical strike series strikes well

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Surgical strike series strikes well

Sunday, 02 August 2020 | Pioneer

Surgical strike series strikes well

avrodh: the siege within

SonyLiv

9 episodes

*ing: Amit Sadh and others

Rated: 7/10

One would say that after the film Uri, this one is similar and smaller. However, the engagingly done series holds you right from the moment stone pelters are about to stop an Army convoy.

The new thing with it is the emphasis it puts on the portals of power in Delhi which decide what happens to the borders. Right from the stone-faced Prime Minister to the laconic NII chief and the always spooked up political advisor, the characters are well played and fleshed out with nuances that fit into the storyline like an easy Lego puzzle.

Then there is an aside in the story too, that of an on the roll TV journalist and her professional intrusions into highly sensitive area which are often shown to be compromising operations. The attempt to sanitise the media by the Government has been shown with brutal honesty.

Other than that the entire scenario building up to the surgical strike after two massive casualties at base camps of Pathankot and Uri due to consistent  instructions from New Delhi to stand down in the face of all kinds of aggressions by the terrorists and the ISI in PoK-occupied Kashmir is shown with subtle sequencing and characters.

And then comes Amit Sadh as the Special Ops Major tasked to plan and execute the surgical strike which meant taking a group of his best men three kilometers into the POK border and strike on a terrorist installation, liquidate the chief and return with minimal casualty.

 Around the covert operation which has been handled with care, most of it meeting the challenge of being shot in a dark shade to enhance the covertness of the do, there is also a look into the tensions between two terror groups, American snobbery, ISI’s deceitful balancing of all forces to propel its interests and the toll that organised terror takes on the normal families losing their sons to it against their will.

Sadh, a regular now for all SonyLiv series breezes through his role, having built muscles and demeanour best so suiting a catlike army commando.

On the whole, a well-cooked series which, one wishes, had come before and not after the film Uri.

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