Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001)

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)

WOW

The movie apart from having a good story, good performances and good direction also has reflected upon reality. I was not expecting much from this movie. But that turned out to be the best part. Pakistan was a part of pre-independance India and was created on the basis of religion and hatred. That hatred has not settled down still (and probably never will). And it was at its peak immediately after the Britishers left. How do the pakistan politians exploit the religion and hatred against india to their own advantage is shown in the movie for real. Even educated and open-minded pakistani have accepted and appreciated this. Apart from the "reality" point of view, this movie has some visually rich scenes like the one where Tara escapes to India from Pakistan in a goods-train. Nice work by the whole team as a whole.

The story starts with how their was hatred and killings on both the sides. And how the girl Sakeena (Ameesha Patel) is seperated from her family in the chaos of so many people moving from either sides to the other. She being left alone in the "opposite" side results in the people trying to molest her. Tara (Sunny Deol) stops people from doing that to a girl seperated from her family. He has to bear the grunt of opposing his own people for someone whose people have killed and raped girls (sunny's) of his own. But he sticks to his. Love blooms between this uneducated truck driver and the educated girl and they get married and have a boy. After years of sakeena living in the ignorance that her parents are dead, she sees a picture in a local daily newspaper that shows her father to have become a prominent political figure in Pakistan. She has a desire to go meet her parent and Tara has no objection to it. But once she reaches her parents, they use her to earn political mileage by projecting her as a brave girl who fought against india's tortures for years and finally returned to her homeland. She is shocked to know that she is not allowed to return to her husband and son. The movie than shows how a unprominent truck driver Tara has to fight the powerful political figures to get his wife back to his home. His trauma and bravery are very nicely shown.

A must see for all those who dont have a clue as to what happened during the partition era.

D. D