Sarfira Review – Akshay Kumar Tries Hard To Lift A Subpar Remake

Aviation films were really fun back in the 1930s and 1940s, when superstars like Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, and others used to do biopics or movies based on World War (I and II). The airplanes, war sequences, and emotional drama looked best then because the aerial stuff was so new. The trend changed over the years, and we never got such heart pumping dramas again. Cut-to: Soorarai Pottru (2020) actually came as a big surprise classic in the peak period of the pandemic and left everyone stunned with several aspects such as story, screenplay, acting, and direction. No complaints on why it won several national awards. The success really reached many corners of the country, and thanks to the pandemic habit of the audience, it made a Tamil film a national film. Of course, that’s how Sarfira makers were driven to it. Fans and productions can deny the claims for their own pleasure, but the fact is that neutral audiences just hate remakes/adaptations nowadays unless you actually make it a pan-India thing like Salaar by providing a new twist in the climax. Even that film isn’t a huge hit, which it should have been. Sarfira is neither grand nor front-loaded, and I don’t need to tell you how the drama genre has fallen in the post-pandemic period. Sarfira could have been better and might have felt much better if it wasn’t a remake of an acclaimed film like Soorarai Pottru. Some films just set standards that are hard to match, even if you copy them frame-to-frame. Sudha Kongara did exactly that with a few honest attempts by the cast and some miscast portions, but forgot to add the “FEEL.” That’s exactly what Sarfira lacks—THE FEEL.