Squad pits one seasoned soldier against wave after wave of trained operatives, all because a small girl needs someone to stand between her and the people hunting her. Nilesh Sahay's 2021 Indian action film runs a little over two hours and stacks its genre tags high: action first, with comedy, drama, romance, music and thriller elements folded in along the way.
What is Squad about?
The set-up is spare. A child has become the target of a clash between rival military units, and the man assigned to shield her is not thrilled about the job. He is a professional who would rather be anywhere else, and she is a kid with no idea why grown men with guns keep appearing. What begins as an obligation slowly turns into something closer to family: the guardian starts to care, the girl starts to trust, and every firefight raises the cost of failure. Around them the wider conflict keeps escalating, with elite forces trading blows across a string of set pieces that give the film its momentum. The emotional thread and the action thread run side by side, and by the final act they have become the same story.
About the cast
Pooja Batra and Mohan Kapur head the credited cast, followed by Malvika Raaj, Rinzing Denzongpa, Abdullah Osman, Dishita Jain, Amit Gaur and Rohan Arora. Sahay directs, and the film is an Indian production.
Context & significance
Indian action cinema has spent the past decade pushing towards bigger, more internationally styled combat sequences, and Squad sits inside that trend. The bodyguard-and-child premise is a durable one across many film industries, offering a ready-made emotional anchor for extended gunplay, and this film leans on that structure rather than reinventing it. Its 124-minute runtime leaves room for the softer beats between the shootouts, including the musical and romantic touches flagged in its genre listing. Critical and audience reception on release was muted, and the film is best approached as a straightforward genre entry rather than a prestige piece.
Watching Squad on Ktime
Squad is available to stream on K-Time for members who sign in with a free account. The film is presented in its original language; K-Time's catalogue does not currently list a Persian dub or Persian subtitles for this title, so viewers should expect the original audio track. The K-Time interface itself is fully available in Farsi, which makes browsing and queueing titles straightforward for Persian-speaking households.