It’s got a tired, recycled feel to it, and fails to hold up to Dutta’s better films.

There is a lot to be said about the futility of war, and now Dutta has made his case for the futility of the war movie. Starring Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood and others.

J.P. Dutta’s film, based on a military operation against the Chinese at the Nathu La Pass in Sikkim in 1967, is structurally clumsy, bland and flat-out tedious

All sound and fury signifying nothing…J P Dutta’s Paltan doesn’t allow JP Dutta his usual blood and gore and glory of war.

JP Dutta gives his best to lend authenticity by using the real terrain but after an hour of the movie it is like deja vu.

J P Dutta’s clownish treatment of history and hard-earned triumph demeans the efforts and sacrifices of real-life martyrs and bravehearts with its pompous ideas of valour, clunky writing and a cadre of lacklustre actors…

For a story that hasn’t been attempted on celluloid so far, Paltan could have been interesting. Unfortunately, it is high on desh bhakti and low on the content in the script

Paltan is more testosterone and male ego than strategy or drama and, surprisingly, it’s tentative even in its jingoism.

The film is packaged with excellent production values, but overall, this is just another derivative of Dutta’s film Border in a fresh avatar.