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New Delhi:
The box office figures for Yodha are gradually declining. On day 10, the action thriller film grossed ₹1.6 crore, according to a Sacnilk Report. So far, the film, jointly directed by Pushkar Ojha and Sagar Ambre, has collected ₹29.25 crore at the domestic box office. Yodha tells the story of a special task force officer Arun Katyal (played by Sidharth Malhotra) and his struggle to protect the country from terrorists. However, he is later suspended from service after being branded a “traitor”. The film, which released on March 15, also features Disha Patani and Raashii Khanna.
A few days ago, Sidharth Malhotra’s wife, actress Kiara Advani, gave a shout-out to her husband’s film by writing a special note on her Instagram Stories. The star praised the film, writing: “Excellent.” For Sidharth, she added, “Sidharth Malhotra, you have made us all so proud. One of the best in this genre.” Kiara Advani tagged the film’s directors Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha and said, “I can’t believe this is your first.” Kiara applauded Disha Patani and Raashii Khanna’s performances and said, “Watch out for these two Yodhas. The entire cast and crew of the film, take a bow.”
In his review for WhatsNew2Day, film critic Saibal Chatterjee gave Yodha 1.5 out of 5 stars and wrote: “Everything in Yodha, an insufferably scrappy thriller, is a bewildering blur. Figuring out what’s going on is best left to troopers who have no fear of the unfathomable. At the beginning of the film, the main character walks out of a deep river with a smoke bomb in his hand. It broadcasts the three colors of the national flag. The man certainly knows the technique of keeping a smoke flame dry in water. He does even better in the climax with another three-color spewing smoke bomb that survives an explosion and a full-blown inferno.
Yodha is jointly backed by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, Amazon Prime Video and Mentor Disciple Entertainment.