Director: Sagar Ambre, Pushkar Ojha
An officer stripped of his uniform, his family, and his friends over a mission gone wrong gets one more shot at the truth when another aircraft is hijacked in "Yodha."
What is Yodha about?
Commanding officer Arun Katyal takes the fall after a hijacking rescue goes badly wrong, losing everything the elite Yodha Task Force once gave him. Years pass before another hijacking puts him back in the sky, and this time the circumstances surrounding his presence on board look anything but innocent. Every clue seems to point toward Arun working an act of revenge against the very system that discarded him, leaving the people around him to wonder whether he's finally turned against the country he once served or is quietly trying to finish the job his father always hoped he'd do right. The film plays that uncertainty out at altitude, keeping the standoff confined to the tight, pressurized space of a hijacked flight.
Cast & crew
Sidharth Malhotra carries the film as Arun, playing the disgraced officer with a mix of stubbornness and quiet grief. Raashii Khanna and Disha Patani take on key roles around him, while Sunny Hinduja, Tanuj Virwani, Shivangi Bhardwaj, Chittaranjan Tripathy and Mikhail Yawalkar round out the ensemble aboard and around the hijacked aircraft.
Context & significance
Co-directed by Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha, "Yodha" is a 2024 Indian action-thriller that keeps its scale tight by setting most of its tension inside a single aircraft cabin. Running 131 minutes, it belongs to a wave of recent Hindi-language action films built around military units and institutional betrayal, using the confined setting to sharpen the stakes rather than widen them.
Where & how to watch
"Yodha" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the tension of the hijacking plays out clearly for Farsi-speaking viewers. There's no barrier to reading about the film first — the page is open to everyone — and streaming it only requires logging into a K-Time account built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora.