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STORY: The six-year-old granddaughter of one of India’s renowned scientists has gone missing and what’s worse, special forces of several countries are on the lookout for her. An elite squad led by Bhim Rana (Rinzing Denzongpa) is formed to execute the rescue mission and bring ‘Hindustan Ki Beti’ back home.

REVIEW: The film begins with a counter-terror operation in POK (Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir), where we’re introduced to Bhim Rana, a specially trained commando with NERO — National Emergency Response Operations. While the mission is successful, our hero fails in saving a small girl who has a ticking bomb tied to her and that’s the baggage he carries as he quits the force soon afterwards.

However, an SOS alert for the rare RHNULL blood group sends the Indian intel in a tizzy as they discover that Mimi Bannerjee (Dishita Jain), the six-year-old granddaughter of scientist Dr Bannerjee is in Georgia. NERO head Nandini Rajput (Pooja Batra) apprises the authorities of the developments and immediately sets out to form an elite squad to bring back India’s daughter from Adjara, Georgia.

While the patriotism card instantly works in getting the others like Aria (Malvika Raaj) and Addy (Tanisha Dhillon), it takes some reasoning and some more alcohol for Bhim to take a second chance and join the mission.

An interesting premise of a rescue mission could have made for a gritty thriller but the one-liner hasn’t been developed adequately for you to remain invested in the storyline. And if that isn’t bad enough, the characters haven’t been written well to connect with them either. Seems writer-director Nilesh Sahay wanted to pack in a lot of things in the narrative, but hasn’t maintained any cohesion between them, leaving you bewildered at the developments.

The first aspect to get one curious about this film is that it marks the debut of Rinzing Denzongpa, son of veteran actor Danny Denzongpa. Over the years, we’ve seen a number of action films become successful launchpads for the debuting actors. From Phool Aur Kaante to Heropanti, we saw debutants from Ajay Devgn to Tiger Shroff perform unique stunts to wow the audiences. However, the thrills in Squad aren’t good enough as compared to what we’re seeing in several other movies these days.

This is why Rinzing’s stoic expressions, flat dialogue delivery and stiff dance moves become even more obvious. You can’t help but feel he deserves better. Malvika Raaj as Aria, who also seems to be in love with Bhim, is just about okay too. There’s not even half a scene to show where and how their romantic track started.

There’s only so much that Tanisha Dhillon, their co-squad members and Amit Gaur (as the baddie Amit Mishra) could do. Pooja Batra and Mohan Kapur (as the corrupt bureaucrat Abhay Bhatnagar) are too over-the-top.

The soundtrack isn’t memorable and seems forced into the narrative. Though the film has some interesting locations like Georgia and Latvia among others, it just doesn’t show on screen.

The film ends with the revelations that Dr Bannerjee’s whereabouts have been found and you shudder at the thought that there could be a sequel to this.

To sum it up, it seems Nilesh Sahay, who also produced this film and is credited as ‘Action Director’ as well, took on too much on his plate to do complete justice to any one department, which resulted in this ‘suicide’ squad of a different kind.