What’s funnier is the film’s climax where a world championship is entirely shot using a green screen. Honestly, this plot point left me confounded, perhaps due to the actor’s inconsistent performance that had me guessing the severity of his ailment. We are told Parthasarathi has a rare eye disorder that renders him visually impaired. Perhaps the only interesting character among the lot is Jagapathi Babu’s Parthasarathi, the aging coach who trains Parthu. She’s simply another ‘object’ to gauge the protagonist’s moral skewness. I mean, aren’t filmmakers tired of building up a fight scene using a bunch of thugs making crude remarks on the heroine, only for the man to come and intervene? Ketika Sharma’s Ritika is barely a person of her own. The film also has a romantic track, serving as an excuse to a generic song early in the film, and then an equally generic fight scene. The film throws everything at us, be it moments of sadness or success, often cutting back to earlier scenes. When a character says Parthu’s opponent has been knocked out of the tournament, Jagapathi Babu says, “It’s not his opponent Parthu has to compete with, he has to compete with himself.” This, of course, is a reference to the fact that Parthu has to overcome his guilt and mistakes that come in the form of a drug addiction. But again, the obviousness in the dialogues is evident. The issue is, we have seen it all, but what works to an extent is the fact that the film doesn’t flinch when it comes to portraying Parthu’s angst and guilt. We also get a training montage and it is, in fact, one of the better parts of the film.
And finally, the hero makes a return and achieves the dream, aided by a coach, here played by Jagapathi Babu.
There’s a setback: the grandfather’s demise and the consequential downfall. There’s a rival: an agitating Rahul (Shatru, who gets more intro scenes than the leading man). There is a motivator: his grandfather (played by Sachin Khedhekar).
The hero, Parthu (Naga Shaurya), an archer, has an aim: it’s winning the world championship, a dream his late father couldn’t realise.
Lakshya largely sticks to the tried-and-tested sports movie template.
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