In Rashtra Kavach: OM, the gunshots are as pointless as the story itself. Incredibly, the hero only suffers from amnesia when one of the bullets pierces his brain. Another one lands on a character’s shoulder, but the next shot shows her standing right close to the hero. Because of this, the villain urges his henchmen to use firearms against the protagonist rather than shoot him. At one moment, Jai Rathore (Ashutosh Rana) informs his superior, “I am not sure about death Sir, but I am dead sure about Om.” After a two-and-a-half-hour assault on our senses, we’d have to agree with him. Para-commando Om (Aditya Roy Kapur) loses his short-term memory when a procedure on a battleship goes horribly wrong. The man wakes up after nearly three months in a coma and hasn’t lost a pound of muscular mass.
Tormented by memories of him as a small kid watching his house being consumed by flames and his nuclear scientist father Dev (Jackie Shroff) being forcibly carried away, he refuses to think about his family, supervisors, coworkers, or his goal. Dev has been deemed a traitor for escaping with the plans for an advanced defensive device known as Kavach, and we’ll soon understand why. Because ‘Rakht rahe ya na rahe, Rashtra hamesha rahega,’ Om sets out to find his father and return the ‘Kavach,’ safely to the land. Direction With Rashtra Kavach: Om, Kapil Verma makes his directorial debut after working on films like Baaghi 3, Housefull 4, War, and Thugs Of Hindostan as a Steadicam operator. This one isn’t all that impressive. There are various action flicks in the Aditya Kapur-starrer that you’ve seen before. He hardly has control of the film’s direction with a narrative that flies off the screen like a piece of cloth attached to Kapur’s arm.
In addition, Raj Saluja and Niket Pandey’s plot twists are ridiculous. ‘Hope is dope’ and ‘Om khud Ek backup hain’ have no defences against them. Even if Raksha Kavach: OM isn’t a bad action movie, it doesn’t even come close! The film’s Baaghi 3-inspired climax also serves as a reminder that Ahmed Khan is the producer. Performances In Raksha Kavach: OM, Aditya Roy Kapur sheds his best buddy and drunkard personas and assumes the role of a supersoldier. The actor bares all, fires with a machine pistol, and even unleashes the Hulk. His acting potential is severely limited by the laughably bad screenplay, which treats him more as a pretty face than anything else.
It’s not until the film’s creators remember that the title contains the word “Om” that Sanjana Sanghi gets to throw around some punches and kicks. Aditya’s Om and Sanjana’s Kavya don’t get a full-blown romance track from director Kapil Verma in the midst of the pandemonium. If you’re looking for some good news, we have some for you! Ashutosh Rana and Jackie Shroff make the most of the opportunities that come their way. When things don’t go his way, he exclaims, ‘dammit,’ reflecting our sentiments. Pandya, who portrays the kheer-cooking mother dearest, joins in on the action and gets to add some “sob-sob” moments of her own.