Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Anil Sharma

Writer:

Shaktimaan (written by)

Release Date:

15 June 2001 (India)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A saga of love during the Indo-Pak partition.

Plot:

Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created...

Plot Keywords:

Pakistan | Love | India | Religious Intolerance | Religious Persecution

Awards:

6 wins & 33 nominations

Cast

Sunny Deol	...	Tara Singh
Ameesha Patel	...	Sakeena (as Amisha Patel)
Amrish Puri	...	Mayor (Sakina's dad)
Lillete Dubey
Vivek Shaq	...	Dharamayan Singh
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ishrat Ali
Usha Bachani
Rakesh Bedi	...	Hotelier
Abhay Bhargav
Dolly Bindra
Mithilesh Chaturvedi
Amit Ghanshyam
Santosh Gupta
Kaushal Kapoor
Pratima Kazmi
Ahsaan Khan
Mushtaq Khan
Amita Khopkar
Madhumati	...	Dancer / Singer at Wedding
Tony Mirchandani
Pramod Muthu
Suresh Oberoi
Vishwajeet Pradhan
Gyan Prakash
Om Puri	...	Narrator
Naresh Sharma
Kanika Shivpuri
Samar Jai Singh

Also Known As:

Gadar (India: Hindi title) (short title)
Mutiny: A Love Story (International: English title) (informal literal title)

Runtime:

Australia:170 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | Punjabi

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M | India:UA

Filming Locations:

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Company:

Zee Telefilms

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In a scene Amisha and her aunt are shown singing the song ‘Que Sera Sera’. The event was set before independence of India in 1947. But this song was actually released in 1956 and was featured in Hitchcock's ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Kambakkht Ishq (2009)

Unbalanced!

i found this film to be biased in its portrayal of the Partition and thus cannot agree that this one can give an insight to someone who has no clue of the events of 1947.

Anil Sharma seems to have been boosting the ego of the Indian populace, or that section rather, which thinks they are so much better than their neighbor. Indeed, this film seems to suggest that the Sikhs (and by extension, perhaps the Hindus as well), are more benevolent compared to the evil Pakistanis who kill without question. then again, Tara saves Sakina only because he knew her from an earlier period and had developed feelings for her. For all its biasness, perhaps a silver lining is a scene where Sakina asks Tara why he saved her when he was out on a hunt for Muslims like the other men who were trying to capture her. On the whole, however, this film seems skewed at a time when other filmmakers are painstakingly trying to convey a notion of amity between the two warring countries.

one such film is Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi's film, Pinjar (2003). this film gives a more balanced perspective of the partition and suggests that the blame cannot be pushed to just one actor. if one needs to get a better understanding of this cataclysmic event, watch Pinjar. if one prefers to rejoice in bashing the Pakistanis for being "evil", then Gadar is something for you. But do not for one moment think that this is the story to believe. It is only a biased account which seeks to poison minds more than mend ties between people who never knew what was coming their way when they bought the national interests of their leaders.