Ikkis

A critic of Bollywood Hungama gave 4 stars out of 5 and said that "Ikkis is not just a war film.

Anuj Kumar of The Hindu said that "Ikkis succeeds as a thoughtful, tear-jerking homage to a young warrior that values soul over spectacle."

Devesh Sharma of Filmfare also rated 4/5 stars and said that "Sriram Raghavan doesn’t just direct a war drama; he offers an actor a graceful goodbye, and reminds us that the truest war stories are those that mourn what is lost rather than celebrate what is won."

Lachmi Deb Roy of Firstpost also rated 4/5 stars and said that "Ikkis is just the kind of war-drama we need in this ruptured mainstream cinema scenario."

Mayur Sanap of Rediff.com rated it 3.5 stars out of 5 and observed that "Where Dhurandhar leaned into aggressive bloodlust through its acerbic storytelling, Ikkis moves in the opposite direction, asking us to see people beyond uniforms, slogans, or sides."

Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India gave 3.5 stars and said that "Unlike most war films, Ikkis doesn’t glorify conflict; it strives for realism.

Rishabh Suri of Hindustan Times also gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and stated that "Overall, Ikkis works best when it stops trying to be a war film and becomes a painful reminder.

Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and said that "Not the sort of Bollywood war movie that goes all guns blazing and tom-tomming the virtues of battlefield bellicosity, Ikkis conserves its firepower and spreads it out judiciously over its two-and-a-half-hour runtime."

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express rated it 3/5 stars and writes in her review that "Agastya Nanda-Dharmendra-starrer is a war film that makes you feel in a way that movies these days are not either able to or want to.

What’s beautiful about Ikkis is how, in an age of chest-thumping patriotism and hyper-action drama, it paves its way with the utmost sensitivity.