It’s odd for a film built on action, patriotism, brotherhood – or in this case, brotherhood – to spend most of its runtime behaving like a family melodrama. In an attempt to become the alpha of YRF’s spy universe, Alpha She begins to look like a child who still has a lot of growing up to do. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have potential. It just means that the film never turns out to be what it promises to be.

the greatest strength of Alpha This is Alia Bhatt. The makers have played their strongest card well. The story begins with Sita being kidnapped by Bobby Deol’s Colonel Lakhawat in his childhood and training her to become an assassin under his ‘Alpha’ program for the country. Years later, when she sets out to eliminate the same people who turned her into a weapon, a twist changes the course of her mission.

As long as the continuous killing of Sita continues, Alpha Remains attractive. Alia is agile, confident and completely at ease in the action sequences. She punches with confidence, handles the stunt choreography with ease and plays off the physicality of the role remarkably and surprisingly well. Ironically, when she stops fighting the pace of the film begins to slow down. Every time the action pauses, the story takes emotional turns that rarely justify the time spent on them. Add in Dia Mirza playing Janaki, RAW chief Vikrant Luthra’s wife, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya as a scientist, to make it more dramatic than expected.

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that inequality becomes AlphaIs the biggest problem. There are many twists and turns in the film and the constant interruptions while getting things done eventually becomes tiring. Instead of creating intrigue, the screenplay focuses more on creating shock value.

The second shock is the story itself. It oscillates endlessly between espionage thriller and emotionally overloaded family drama – there’s a dead mother, a stolen childhood, a father burdened with guilt and a sister haunted by what could have been. Each emotional beat comes with maximum volume, making Alpha Perhaps the most self-consciously sentimental film in the spy universe. The emotional manipulation becomes so constant that it begins to overshadow the real work: the action, espionage, adventure, and style of this universe.

Thankfully, one thing the film gets right is to stay away from romance. Adding a love story would have been the biggest disservice to a film that was female-led, female-driven and fundamentally about women.

Alia and Sharvari as Sita and Durga are forces in their own right. They were never maidens waiting to be rescued. They see danger coming, take decisions and fight their own battles. This is why it feels so disturbing when the film chooses to sexualize Sharvari again and again.

There are bikini shots, shorts and bralettes in snowy Kashmir, backless bodysuits during battle scenes – all presented as glamor rather than necessity. None of this adds anything to the story. the whole point of Alpha The aim is to establish women as capable weapons in this espionage world, fighting for survival, family and country – and not just impress the audience with perfectly curated glamor shots.

You haven’t seen Hrithik Roshan taking on terrorists in a backless vest. You won’t be able to see Shahrukh Khan shooting at enemies in skin-tight leggings. so why should it Alpha Insists on dressing up our women to be seen through men’s eyes and also asks us to celebrate them as formidable action heroes?

The transformation of Sharvari into an erotic doll who occasionally gets to do some action continues to sting throughout the film. It becomes impossible to ignore it.

The supporting cast doesn’t help matters either. Anil Kapoor brings nothing beyond that as RAW chief dialogue baazi. Bobby Deol, meanwhile, looks determined to recreate Abrar’s intimidating aura Animal. Keen vision and a well-built physique certainly add style, but one cannot project menace through body language alone. Writing doesn’t give him enough material.

Even Hrithik Roshan’s Kabir Dhaliwal seems to be a last minute addition. His entry is designed for whistles, but once the cheering fades, it comes down to a simple question: Why is he here? The sequence contributes almost nothing to the narrative and feels more like franchise maintenance than storytelling.

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The irony is that he goes Alpha Almost like a perfect Alia Bhatt show. This is both the film’s greatest blessing and one of its biggest weaknesses. Alia does almost all the heavy lifting, but a strong performance can’t compensate for an inconsistent script. At some point, you stop caring about who’s chasing who, what the mission is, or where the story is actually going.

Just when the film starts to lose you, it introduces an unexpected sense of déjà vu – not from its own spy universe, but from another spy world entirely: stalwart. The comparison is not good. It’s a reminder of how much sharper, more entertaining and confident an espionage thriller can be.

an aspect Alpha deserves credit for refusing to hide behind the familiar”enemy country” Euphemism. It directly names Pakistan, accepts cross-border operations and avoids pretense hope for peace Diplomacy on which its previous films depended. That clarity is refreshing. The only disappointment is that the film never plays out this idea with the conviction it deserves.

For a debut film, Shiv Rawail still delivers a better directed film than Ayan Mukherjee war 2. Despite its dull script, Alpha is more consistent than that expensive spoof war 2 Often resemble each other. There are glimpses of ambition, strong action and glimpses of what the film could have been. But glimpses are not enough.

was the last truly satisfying movie in this universe war Back in 2019. Since then, the graph has steadily fallen. Alpha Doesn’t pull it down any further, but it certainly doesn’t raise the bar either.

Remove the Liril-ad-like swimming montage, the unnecessary Hrithik cameo and a generous portion of family melodrama, and there’s probably a fairly decent spy thriller lurking beneath.

instead, Alpha It spends so much time proving that it has a heart that it forgets that it should have even had a pulse. In the race to become the alpha of the spy universe, he barely survives as a cub.