Code Name: Tiranga Review - Parineeti Chopra Is Fierce & Dhaansu In This Failed Mission

Harrdy Sandhu and Parineeti Chopra star in Ribhu Dasgupta's spy-action-drama Code Name: Tiranga. We have seen all the theories that a spy action drama can use in India, be it patriotism, terrorism, revenge drama, true events, thrillers, and woman-led flicks. So, now what's left for Code Name: Tiranga? Nothing, actually. And yet they made this film. A big salute to their guts, instead of the patriotism they showed in the film. The film is dried out of all those old theories of patriotic spy dramas, with below-par entertaining values and badly executed thrills. Mainstream contemporary cinema is way ahead of time than what we get to see in this flick that doesn't really stay honest to a single conflict.The film is about a female RAW agent, Durga Singh (Parineeti Chopra), who meets Dr. Mirza (Harrdy Sandhu) accidentally. The two begin an affair in no time, and a moment later, they are married. Durga, who has kept her identity secret, has to reveal her true face while giving a finishing touch to her biggest mission. The two depart in their own ways, but destiny brings them together again. She continues her search for the most wanted terrorist, Khalid Omar (Sharad Kelkar), along with her colleague Ajay Bakshi (Dibyendu Bhattacharya). Code Name: Tiranga unveils many secrets by the end, but none of them is actually that suspenseful.Parineeti Chopra shows off her action-packed avatar in Code Name: Tiranga, and she is damn good at it. She is bold and beautiful, but in this film, she is powerful too. She does not forget to challenge an actor within herself during a couple of emotional scenes. Harrdy Sandhu was surprisingly good in his debut film '83, and he continues in that vein here. Harrdy and Parineeti share some fantastic romantic scenes, even though the execution is poor. I gotta salute the consistency of Dibyendu Bhattacharya. What an amazing talent he is. He just makes it look so much better, even if it's a poorly written one, than it would have been with any other actor. And what to say about this guy, Sharad Kelkar? He has a voice of his own, and that makes his characters impressive. He plays Khalid Omar so well, and that middle-east look is a fresh change for him.Talking about plus points, Code Name: Tiranga had some good action sequences led by Parineeti Chopra. Rarely do we see female stars doing high-octane action stunts, and this film is exactly that. From the teaser and trailer, it looked like Code Name: Tiranga would be a very bad film, but it is not. Till the interval point, it is a very decent film, but then the flaws in the second half drag the mission down. The negative points are too many, but the writing and screenplay remain on top. The technical aspects are still considerably watchable, but the logic part is a big mess. Code Name: Tiranga cracks no new codes for spy dramas, rather it misuses the old ones with less knowledge of binary.Coming to the direction of Ribhu Dasgupta, there are many things that have gone wrong. First, the vision of making a film 137 minutes long when there was no need to. Actually, there was no story that could be stretched so far. It could have been wrapped within 2 hours and saved 15-17 minutes of boredom, but Ribhu had to keep the unnecessary elements in the final cut for some unknown reason. What causes more damage is mediocrity falling apart from the first scene in the second half. It has so many turnarounds in the last 15 minutes that you wonder why they had to show those early 120-minute buildups when these things were already planned. Dasgupta's mission has no proper agenda to attend to, hence making it a deceived mission. It's good that the film is releasing with low buzz, otherwise many would have torn it apart.