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Yuri the Surgical Strike

Movie released on 11 January and like one of the rare movies that I watch in theatre, I watched this one. The trailer and Facebook and several people came up saying this movie will is like a injection of patriotism. I felt otherwise. There are handful ways to look at this movie... First it is patriotic or hyper nationalist and bla bla. Second as if the movie is an ordinary war movie and third how a army officer takes revenge, fourth is how things have changed after Modi got his first five year term.  Well, obviously the movie is based on true events and people, so you just can't avoid pointing out characters. Especially, in the scene where the little girl shouts the war cry at her father's funeral. We have seen that in real life, we already have these heroes amongst us. If that's hyper nationalism, let it prevail.  (Also, I didn't feel that the movie was hyper nationalist or something. Perhaps my sense of nationalism is that high already!) Although there are two f