AKIRA

The film sees Sonakshi as an ‘action star’. But will it make an impact on the audience? Here’s our Akira movie review.

Director: AR Murugadoss
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Anurag Kashyap, Konkona Sen Sharma, Amit Sadh, Atul Kulkarni

About 20 minutes into Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira, there’s a protest sequence in front of the Asiatic Steps in Mumbai. The sequence encompasses all the elements from a college protest – a mob of students, a few havaldars, a nostril-flaring sub-inspector animatedly yelling into the walkie-talkie about how he needs tear gas, stones, and finally a gunshot that disperses the crowd. As the crowd is dispersed, we see Sonakshi Sinha (the hero) still seated in the middle of a now-deserted road. She walks towards the cops in slow-motion with heavily distorted electric guitars blazing in the background.