The 5s and 5.5s in this reviewer's ratings tend to imply moderately good work while being relatively inoffensive. Like, say, Bhaagamathie and Lacchimdeviki Oka Lekkundi. The relative inoffensiveness is rather key. But Chanakya's 5.5 doesn't belong in this mould. The film is extremely offensive and dull work. For a while. The whole of the first half in fact.
Arjun (Gopichand) is an "emotional" spy who is trying to rein in a criminal/terrorist/don/some-kind-of-Pakistani-powerful-villain called Qureshi (Rajesh Khattar) whose son (Upen Patel) is a worse criminal/terrorist/don/some-kin....