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Ruslaan Review: Aayush Sharma Goes All Out In Painfully Bloated Concoction

A still from Ruslaan. (courtesy: aaysharma) A dead terrorist’s son adopted by a no-nonsense police officer grows up with a mammoth chip on his shoulder – come what may, the young man is determined to go out of his way to save the nation from harm and earn for himself the label of a true patriot. He needs little provocation to swing into action. He is, both in body and spirit, invincible to boot. The eponymous hero is played by Aayush Sharma, who, too, goes all out to prove a point – the lead actor wants to be acknowledged as a heavy-duty action hero capable of carrying an entire film on his shoulders. Sharma does not stop striving towards that end. It is Ruslaan, the film and the character, that lets him down so bad that there is no way he can crawl his way back into some sort of sanity. The film is a boat that not only has no wind in its sails, it is riddled with holes. In his third release after …