T.P. FILLAM WALA's video: Raazi Movie Review Alia Bhatt Vicky Kaushal

The year is 1971. An Indian intelligence official lays out a scheme to send his daughter - an untrained college-girl - behind enemy lines to Pakistan, smuggling her in to sneak out wartime secrets. His colleague naturally finds the idea rummy, and is expressing objections when the officer's wife insists they have dinner. "Khali pet iraade nahin bharte," she says, "Hopes aren't met on an empty stomach." She leaves the room, and the colleague, hoping better sense will prevail from this articulate woman, asks his friend what she would rather do. "She'd rather you eat," the officer smiles. Coming from Meghna Gulzar - the director of Talvar, a fantastic film about a true-life murder case that was brave enough to take a stand - this delicacy isn't surprising. Raazi, based on Harinder Sikka's novel Calling Sehmat, is about the daughter of a spy strategically turned into the daughter-in-law of an opposing spy, and Gulzar keeps the storytelling cut and dry, draining the film of jingoism as she lets the young girl go about her work.