Lakshya (2004)

Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother, who run the family business. All Karan does is have fun with his buddies and ... See full summary »

Director:

Farhan Akhtar

Writers:

Javed Akhtar (dialogue), Javed Akhtar (screenplay),

Stars:

Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta

3 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Col. Sunil Damle
Hrithik Roshan	...	Karan Shergill
Preity Zinta	...	Romila 'Romi' Dutta
Sharad S. Kapoor	...	Maj. Binod Sengupta
Om Puri	...	Subedar Maj. Pritam Singh
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	...	Pradeep
Abir Goswami	...	Capt. Sudhir Mishra (AMC)
Parmeet Sethi	...	Maj. Shahbaaz Humdani (Pakistan)
Boman Irani	...	Mr. Shergill

Storyline

Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother, who run the family business. All Karan does is have fun with his buddies and romance a woman named Romi. When he watches an action movie, he and his friends decide to enlist in the army, but the course proves to be too much of a bother and he abandons it half way, thus making his lose respect on the home front. Romi also stops respecting him. Now Karan decides that he must re-join the army and show to his family and Romi that he too is focused about path he has to take in this lifetime. But will he be resilient enough to carry out this task?

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Plot Keywords:

army | military academy | kashmir | pakistan | terrorist | 

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Taglines:

It took him 24 years and 18000 feet to find himself

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Genres:

War | Drama | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [in] (English)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

18 June 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mut zur Entscheidung - Lakshya

Filming Locations:

Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 300,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$139,000 (USA) (25 June 2004)

Gross:

$752,344 (USA) (23 July 2004)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Excel Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

186 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital Dolby SR

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Amar Singh managed to get the television channel office where Preity Zinta's character works in the film was set in the actual Sahara newsroom in Delhi. The entire space was vacated within a day's notice. The makers didn't have to pay anything for it, thanks to Amar Singh and Sahara, which is why Sahara and Amar Singh were thanked in the opening credits.

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Goofs

When Hrithik Roshan receives a letter from his friend while in Kargil and is interrupted by his fellow senior officer, he puts the letter in his right pant pocket. But when he remembers about the letter later on, he removes the letter from his left pant pocket.

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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 ...

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Connections

References Jurassic Park (1993)

User Reviews

A must watch movie and yet another masterpiece from Farhan Akhtar...

The movie is all about having a LAKSHYA (aim) in our lives. It would'nt be inappropriate at all to comment that this film in one way points out at today's indecisive youth who are not clear about what they are going to do of their lives, and change their focus every now and then.

The story is about Karan (Hrithik Roshan) who is very talented but utterly confused about his future. Rather his girlfriend Romila (Preity Zinta) has since the very beginning ambition of being a news channel correspondent. Karan's indecisiveness widens the gap between him and his father (Boman Irani) who expects nothing from his son and the same thing ultimately results in his breakup with Romila too. This changes Karan's life and he gets determined of getting in the army and passes out from the IMA (Indian Military Academy) with a very enviable record. At the same time Romila too becomes a successful news channel correspondent. But both of them don't know what their futures has in store for them. They meet again after the turmoil in Romila's life from a broken engagement and this time the backdrop is the picturesque Kashmir valley and the event being the Kargil war. Karan has been deputed there as an army officer and Preity comes for a live coverage of the war. The story now flows ahead with the attempt of Indian forces to get back peak no.5179 from the Pakistani forces and the intersection of Karan's and Romila's lives at many instances acting as the currents. The ending is predictable but yet you would love to watch it.

The movie is yet another masterpiece from Farhan Akhtar,the Director after the tremendous success of "Dil Chahta Hai". This is also yet another testimony of Javed Akhtar's writing prowess. The lyrics and dialogues are superb. Moreover the choreography (Prabhu Deva) and photography (Christopher Popp) are worthy of praises. Hrithik Roshan gives another flawless performance after "Koi Mil Gaya". Another attraction is Colonel Sunil Damle (Amitabh Bachchan). Amitabh Bachchan gives those dialogues a beauty and charm which is so characteristic to himself. Preity Zinta is good in her role too. You can't pinpoint anybody or anything specifically as that would diminish other's efforts as all of them have performed commendably. The backdrop of Kashmir valley and the Himalayas has been so beautifully captured in the frame. Also the war scenes look so much authentic which is very tough job to do. The running time of the film is above 3 hours but you can't realize that ( you can't help it as you get fully engrossed in the film.....). Hrithik's dancing skills are unveiled so beautifully yet again. He can easily claim to have a rubber body--so flexible,so much in tune with the rhythm. Good music from Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio once again. Actually i could'nt think of any flaw in the movie as every aspect has been given it's due attention.

I would claim it to be a must watch movie and rate it a hefty 8.5/10