Review of movie India's Most Wanted

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Rating:3.5/5

 You can either fight for credit or actually work to get things done. The real heroes often find themselves on the sidelines while the undeserving are often higher up the food chain. 

Raj Kumar Gupta’s (No One Killed Jessica, Raid) manhunt drama doesn’t succumb to the tropes of a conventional spy thriller. The field agents don’t have modern tech gadgets or fancy cars at their disposal. Nor are they revered as heroes or pretend to be heroic. They are ordinary men with extraordinary dedication towards our nation, working in extreme circumstances. With the fear of death constantly looming in the background, they must conquer the terrorist by solely trusting their instinct. How this mission unfolds forms the story. 

Inspired by real events, IMW not only recreates the audacious capture of Indian Mujahideen founder — terrorist Yasin Bhatkal, (renamed as Yusuf here) — through a covert operation in 2013 by an unlikely bunch of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers but also exposes the shortcomings in our system and psyche. Not just a crime story, the film also offers a social commentary on the tough conditions in which our agents operate.