India, July 25 -- At one point in Sarzameen, I gave up trying to make sense of what was happening on screen. It was a high-stakes scene, with time ticking and lives hanging in the balance. Think Main Hoon Na's climax. except the Khan here isn't Shah Rukh, and the thrill is completely MIA.

Iggy-boy Ibrahim Ali Khan is back with another OTT venture after Nadaaniyan. He's ripped and styled to perfection, and I finally understood why the girls swoon. But then he speaks (all ten lines, give or take). and you start wondering if modelling was the road not taken.

The story revolves around Colonel Vijay Menon (Prithviraj Sukumaran, who almost never takes off his uniform. Does he sleep in it, too?). He is posted in Kashmir and lives with his fami...