Jawan Trailer Review: A Soldier Who Does  Not Make Any Deal With Bad People, And He Is A Villain Too

The much awaited Jawan trailer of Shah Rukh is out. As expected, it is bombastic with all the elements of a King Khan potboiler, some scenes similar to Shah Rukh Khan’s previous release Pathaan. Yes, there are a lot of similarities in the plot (as one can understand from the trailer) with the Siddharth Anand box office hit released earlier this year: both are stories of action, has a soldier (is it so, because he is shown as a police man in the trailer itself), a past in which the story evolves and obviously captivating punchlines.

He is a “king who lost all battles in the jungle…. Hungry and thirty and full of rage”. This is what you are being taken into when the Jawan trailer opens. You need to understand, it is Shah Rukh Khan’s character is the king here, who else, if it can’t be him.

Then the trailer turns to another plot, which is seemingly the main plot of the movie. In this plot, the hero (or anti-hero) takes on the role of the villain. He is inside a train leading a hijack and seen talking to someone, and when asked about what does he want, “May be Alia Bhatt,” says in a quirky way.

Is he a vigilante? It seems so. Sunil Grover’s character talks about the hero having a lot of fans. Sunil in his looks, obviously, a government official. Like in what all the trailer needs to do, when asked about the hero’s name, you will see Shah Rukh Khan on the screen, yeah, his name is not revealed here.

Then the trailer moves on to the softer side of the hero, his loves and family. You see two love interests of the hero here – Deepika Padukone in the past and Nayanthara in the present. This lasts for only seconds and the trailer is again back to the main plot.

The main villain is introduced after the hero asks a question that carries the whole plot on its shoulders: “When I become the villain…”.

Then comes the actual villain – Vijay Sethupathi as Kalee, the fourth biggest arms dealer entering the scene walk past dead bodies.

The villain does not want his authority threatened and tries to make a deal with the hero, then the hero says: “I am a soldier. I can give my life thousand times, only for the country but not for the people like you”.

So the war is on.

If you expect an Atlee, you get an Atlee (this time not with Vijay, but with Shah Rukh Khan).