Lack of good storyline.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Q: how to copy Hollywood movie A: add religious angle

This is the first time I am writing a review for any movie. It really was a brilliant work done by the director. Story line is not really the best feature of this movie but Some marvelous dialogues and exceptional performance by K K Menon makes this movie very special.For me it was one of the best performances of K. K. Menon as Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh.Talking about other aspects, music is really average but not boring. Movies really has very few songs.Performance of Javed Jaffrey is respectively better than Rahul Bose.There are certain memorable scene in this movie. Whether we talk about giving respect to a cup of coffee or the last intense court scene.Some good moments when Menon tells Mishra that "only pigs sweat, men perspire", you will really love those.When we talk about the last court scene, it could have been any better. I was really amazed see the furious facial expression of Menon. When I saw that scene in the theater I was thinking that how can actor perform in stock a realistic manner.So my rating to the movie is 9/10.

Shaurya centers around the characters of Javed Khan, an army-man accused of the crime of killing his own colleague and undergoing a court marshal and the events leading to it. He is defended in court by Siddharth (Rahul Bose), a lawyer in the army. The opposition is played by Javed Jaffrey, a very close friend of Rahul Roy's character. The movie is a direct, almost frame-to-frame copy of 'A Few Good Men (1992)'. Even the very famous quote "You can't handle the truth" is delivered by Brig. Pratap (K.K. Menon), who plays his role to perfection. This movie is worth a watch only to see the acting of Rahul Bose and K.K. menon. K.K. Surprises us once again. He looks and acts the part of the brigadier to perfection, as if he IS Brigadier Pratap himself. Intense. Very intense. Its sad to think an actor of his caliber is wasted in Bollywood. He is one of the finest you will ever see. Again, if we consider that the common viewer in India has not seen the classic original (because it is an 'English' movie and does not have the usual dose of Sex and Violence) then this movie is very interesting. A very good story told in a wonderful way. However, if we consider the serious cine-goer then this movie is too predictable because we already know how it ends, don't we? And we are proved right.6/10 - because its a good copy with amazing acting.

So you have the 'I'm too cool for my job' Rahul Bose who in spite of being in armed forces sleeps till 1 PM and has to be woken up by his spectacled-hence-pencil-pusher friend.You have the bubbly reporter who introduces her character by speaking everything we need to know, out loud in her only conversations with herself. Then you have the scenes where Rahul Bose is cooler than everybody around him so he won't even look at the files of the case he has been handed, you have the scene where the reporter makes him realize the error of his ways, you have the melodramatic mother's monologue, the family history of being patriotic, the cigar smoking brigadier, the preparing for the case with coffee montage, the stopping in the middle of an highway because it is important to recreate the crime scene ASAP... but all of this you were ready for. What you weren't ready for was the preaching, you weren't ready for the story that would not have been possible without the Brigadier who HAD to have it for an entire religion. That the accused HAD to be a Muslim to be tried and perhaps even HAD to be a Muslim to be humane enough.Don't waste your time people. Watch 'A Few Good Men' again and read some book on secularism. This movie isn't worth it.