Major HD Released

  You know how the saying goes, that funerals are for the living and not the dead? If you thought that Sashi Kiran Tikka’s Major was just a tribute to the 26/11 martyr, you’re wrong. This film is a tribute to the sacrifices a lonely wife had to make whenever her husband is off fighting bad guys, sacrifices parents have to make while praying their son is not the one called to war. This film is for those whose sacrifices are seldom acknowledged while they’re most often the ones left mourning.

Sandeep Unnikrishnan (Adivi Sesh) has a protective instinct embedded in his DNA. He feels fear but he doesn’t think twice before putting himself in harm’s way if it means saving someone’s life. It’s no wonder that even as a little boy, he finds himself fascinated with the ‘uniform’ and a soldier’s way of life. But what does being a soldier mean? Does it mean forgoing being a good husband and son, does it mean putting oneself first on the battlefield or going to the extremes of being a sacrificial lamb with no self-preservation? Even as he contends with these questions, a tragedy strikes the nation and Sandeep, who’s an NSG major now, must do his bit.

Going into Major, you already know how the 26/11 terrorism attack in Mumbai will play out; you also know that Sandeep will end up a martyr. So how does one tell a tale where the audience is already familiar with the major beats? While one could nit-pick and think of various other ways, director Sashi Kiran Tikka and Adivi Sesh, who wrote the story and screenplay, decide to focus on Sandeep the human as a whole rather than just Sandeep the martyr. When the inevitable happens, you mourn not just a soldier who sacrificed his life for the country but a life that he could’ve lived. To reveal anything more about this coming-of-age tale would be an injustice.