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Overview

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7.8/10   2,337 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Javed Akhtar (dialogue)
Javed Akhtar (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 June 2004 (USA) more
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It took him 24 years and 18000 feet to find himself
Plot:
Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother... more | add synopsis
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3 wins & 10 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(13 articles)
Farhan Akhtar make his foray into Hollywood with a bang
 (From Filmicafe. 15 September 2009, 2:35 PM, PDT)

One can’t predict things: Sushant Singh
 (From RealBollywood. 1 September 2009, 6:04 AM, PDT)

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Good story, well told more (40 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Amitabh Bachchan ... Col. Sunil Damle
Hrithik Roshan ... Karan Shergill
Preity Zinta ... Romila "Romi" Dutta

Om Puri ... Subedar Maj. Pritam Singh
Sharad S. Kapoor ... Maj. Binod Sengupta

Rajendranath Zutshi ... Maj. Kaushal Verma (as Raj Zutshi)
Sushant Singh ... Capt. Jalal Akbar
Prashant Chianani ... Lt. Vishal Srivastav (as Prashant Chainani)
Shakeel Khan
Ranvir Shorey (as Ranvir Shoerey)
Ajai Jose
Aditya Srivastava
Abir Goswami ... Capt. Sudhir Mishra (AMC)
Parmeet Sethi ... Maj. Shahbaaz Humdani (Pakistan)
Boman Irani ... Mr. Shergill
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186 min
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2.35 : 1 more

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The vast majority of the non-speaking Army roles in the film were filled by real-life soldiers of 13th Battalion, The Punjab Regiment. (In the film, the unit portrayed is 3rd Battalion, The Punjab Regiment.) more
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Factual errors: In the very first scene Hritik Roshan is referred to as Lt. Col. Shergill, whereas in the rest of the movie he is referred to as Lt. Shergill. His actual rank in the movie is Lt. Shergill. more
Quotes:
Romila "Romi" Dutta: What is all this happening?
Alwyn: Mushko, Dras, Kaksar, Batalik, it's the same everywhere.
Romila "Romi" Dutta: I don't understand. Why does this war take place. Why do people get killed this way? When will these people understand that solution to a man's problem is not war but peace and prosperity?
Capt. Saket Ahluwalia, Dogra Regt.: [shouts loudly from the other table] Just shut up, just shut up.
Capt. Saket Ahluwalia, Dogra Regt.: [confronts Romi and others] If you want to give a lecture on peace and prosperity go to some other place. Get Lost.
Alwyn: See you are misunderstanding us.
Capt. Saket Ahluwalia, Dogra Regt.: You want peace and prosperity; even we want peace and prosperity. So what shall we do? Stand in front of them with folded hands? Decorate our nation in platter and hand it over to them? Peace and prosperity huh? Even Capt. Abeer saxena wanted peace and prosperity. But he did not go ahead to attack someone else's country. Attack is being done on Abeer's country. The road, the land on which he died was an Indian land. Go and first look at abeer saxena's body and then talk of peace and prosperity.
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Good story, well told, 20 June 2004
10/10
Author: SMA

Enjoyable, good story, well told. Farhan Akhtar has done it again, after his first movie Dil Chahta Hai.

Hrithik Roshan's character grows up from being a confused young lad to a man with a mission. Shades of An Officer and a Gentleman, Guns of Navarone, and a little of Saving Private Ryan.

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have created more of their world music, and it rocks. The first two songs were fabulous; the other songs should be skipped, I thought.

As in Dil Chahta Hai, the parents are all ultra-supportive. They also dress and decorate in expensive nouveau handlooms, rattan furniture, slip covers, etc. Boston Brahmin did a good review.

Very nice and straightforward; none of the Hindu Family Values reactionary material that Bollywood routinely churns out.

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