Film Holiday is worth watching for its freshness and for some good action moves !!

Holiday is a tale of a soldier and his duty towards the country; it breaks all typecasts of terrorism and comes in as a breath of fresh air.

 

Going by the tagline A soldier is never off duty, we have the stylish hero Captain Virat Bakshi (Akshay Kumar) enjoying his holiday back home, trying to find his match and trying to woo Sahiba (Sonakshi Sinha). The two shares some cute and comical moments and sing and dance here there everywhere. Virat along with his friend (played by Sumeet Raghavan) enjoy their time in Mumbai until they realize there is a terrorist (Freddy Daruwala) somewhere close by.

 

Action begins, our soldier is seen kicking, punching, delivering strange dialogues, breaking heads etc and defeating the enemies. Unlike most movies, here we have the terrorists holding fancy gadgets and looking smart, yeah they do!

 

Coming to the screenplay, we’d give it a thumb up. A.R Murgadoss does a fine job of engaging his viewers. His earlier movie Ghajini also managed to obtain a positive review for never losing track and being an engaging thriller. Holiday too doesn’t dishearten in terms of that.

 

Akshay Kumar is first-rate as an action hero. He always was. Sumeet Raghavan gets more screen space than darling Sonakshi who is there just to dance and sing and laugh and fill the empty spaces. We also have Govinda in a cameo appearance and doing a decent job. There is a special mention to the villain of the movie Freddy Daruwala who steals your heart with his excellent act.

 

At close to three hours, the movie is way too long. In spite of a convincing story, you wish at times that editing was tighter. Song placement is not that wise and tries your patience.

 

Overall, film Holiday is worth watching for its freshness and for some good action moves.