Ya Rab Review

One Line Review: A politically correct attempt to show the cliched "religion cannot be linked with terrorism."

Positive Points: Impressive performance by the central characters; good music; one realistically shot action sequence at the end.

Negative Points: The entire film is a politically correct farce.

Plot: Rann Vijay Singh (Ajaz Khan) is a Delhi ATS officer, who is interrogating a captured terrorist, whose clue leads him to Lucknow where the next terror attack is going to take place. He goes to the city with his team where they try to locate the terrorists. On the other hand, there is Maulana Jilani (Akhilendra Mishra) who's a powerful cleric, holding the strings to the city's Muslims.

Imran (Vikram Singh) and his pregnant wife Amreen are living in bliss with their family in the city. However, Jilani happens to be the close friend of Ikram (Raju Kher), the family elder. Unfortunately the ATS team fails to thwart the attack which is carried by Maulana Jilani, which also kills Amreen.

Now Jilani wants Amreen dead as she has talked with the suicide bomber in the mall, minutes before he blows himself up. He threatens a religious Muslim neurosurgeon Dr. Mazar (Manzar Sehbai) to abort the child, but he doesn't relent to his pressure as a result of which the Maulana pulls the string that holds thousands of the Muslims in the city and hell ensues.

Direction And Other Technical Aspects: The direction is average, but the films wastes unnecessary time to show things that really don't matter much with respect to the plot. Cinematography isn't too impressive either. However, the plot and the way events have shown to be taking place are certainly better.

Performances: Performance delivered by Akhilendra Mishra is indeed impressive and deserves applause. His portrayal of a fanatic Muslim Mullah is perfect. On the other hand, debutant Ajaz Khan too delivers a good performance when it comes portraying an ATS officer. Vikram Singh doesn't deliver anything closer to impressive.

Music: Composers Amjad and Nadeem have done a great job by composing songs that fit the context and that are good to listen too.

Final verdict: The overall film which tries to show the usual "religion cannot be connected with terror" is a typically Indian politically correct film. Though some scenes have been shot really well, 'Ya Rab' is a farce that tries to disprove what is an evident truth.