Blank (2019 film)

It was jointly produced by Shrikant Bhasi, Nishant Pitti, & Pictures, Tony D'Souza, and Vishal Rana.

After meeting with an accident, he loses memory of his mission, but an investigating officer refuses to take his word for it, and plans to kill him in an encounter.

Upon realizing that a time bomb is attached to his body, the hospital staff notify SS Dewan (Sunny Deol), a member of the Anti-Terrorism Squad.

Meanwhile, Husna (Ishita Dutta) and Rohit (Karanvir Sharma), Dewan's subordinates, arrest another terrorist named Farukh.

[14] Similarly, The Indian Express opined, "The crisply cut and edited trailer is high on action, thrill and some heavy dose of dialogues".

Rana maintained that the film was not being released in that time period for any political motive or to gain any publicity, and stated that it was a coincidence.

[20] Writing for The Hindu, Namrata Joshi opines, "Blank eventually doesn't rise above being a stilted "bad Muslim" narrative.

It's yet another film that plays on Islamophobia and it does say a lot that it comes with the backing of the BJP candidate from Gurdaspur... and the Canadian journalist specialising in doing non-political interviews[.

However, he felt Kapadia "proves to be an immensely watchable leading man, because of his unconventional intensity and the organic ability to pull off action sequences".

She felt Kapadia's performance was restricted to being "poker-faced as the character demands but equally ferocious", while commenting that Deol's sequences "are the best part of the film".

[24] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it two and a half stars out of five, but approached the film more positively, writing, "Blank is well directed and performed and is based on the relatable events of terrorism.

[25] Priyanka Sinha Jha of News18 gave the same rating but wrote, "Despite Sunny Deol's presence, the film fails to pack in a punch".

[27] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express rated it one and a half stars out of five and felt it "emphasizes its over-used thrust - Islamic 'aatankwaad' threatening the unity and integrity of Akhand Bharat"; Gupta felt Kapadia performed well in the action sequences "but will need to work hard on emoting", while Deol was at his usual.

[29] Writing for The Times of India, Rachit Gupta concurred, "The movie has flashes of promise but just as many, if not more, moments of amateur execution", and felt Khambata's "inexperience shows in many portions where the filmmaker's choices aren't top-notch".