In many ways, it also reflects new India’s irritation with status quo – it is unwilling to accept victimhood status and wants to take up the challenge head-on and finish it. With Baby, the fight was taken to the enemy camp – here was a bang of daredevil undercover agents, who would not simply prevent a terror act from occurring, but would actively seek to eliminate the masterminds. The Neeraj Pandey directorial, in many ways, was a departure from the historical Indian way of dealing with terror – of preventing terror strikes. When Baby released in 2015, audiences were taken aback by its realistic feel as much as its perspective. Akshay Kumar played the role of Ajay Singh Rajput in Baby. These spies could be running a simple grocery shop in crowded street of Pakistan, a flower kiosk next to a mosque or just a young bride sent to the lion’s den on her own with a little training and a lot of courage. More often than not, they are the ones hiding in plain sight. In the end, when people have been through so much loss and suffering, a spy’s successful mission may not be a moment to celebrate but a cruel reflection on the cost of it all.īased on Harinder Sikka’s book Calling Sehmat, the film also deserves praise for showing spies who put heir lives at risk for the country don’t do so while wearing tuxedos and sipping martinis. It showed that lives are ruined on both sides of the border during a war. Where Raazi stands taller than any other Hindi film about spies was in its human, rather than hyper-nationalist, treatment of the subject.
She hides the surveillance equipment in her trousseau and masks her operations as a spy in the coy smile of a bride. There, she has to find information on a threat looming large on India and do it all with great care and smartness. Raazi is about a young woman from Kashmir who marries a Pakistani military official as India and its neighbour are on the cusp of the 1971 war. Alia Bhatt played an Indian spy named Sehmat in Raazi.ĭirector Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi is sweeping the awards season and all for the right reasons. From gritty realism to machismo-fuelled espionage films, you will find everything here. While Salman Khan’s Tiger franchise - blockbusters Ek Tha Tiger and Tiger Zinda Hai, Saif and Katrina’s Phantom, Taapsee Pannu’s Naam Shabana and John’s excellent Madras Cafe get honourable mention, here are desi spy thrillers that are our absolute favourites but in no specific order. Ahead of RAW’s release, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite Hindi spy thrillers in recent years - this is a genre that has got a recent amount of airing in the recent years.
Directed by Robbie Grewal, the film is inspired by true events that took place during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. Actor John Abraham returns as a spy in yet another patriotic film, Romeo Akbar Walter, this Friday.
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