Lakshya (2004)

Director:

Farhan Akhtar

Writers:

Javed Akhtar (dialogue)
Javed Akhtar (screenplay)

Release Date:

18 June 2004 (USA)

Genre:

War | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Army | Military Academy | Terrorist | Kashmir | Pakistan

Awards:

3 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

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

Runtime:

186 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | Dolby SR

Certification:

Germany:16 | Singapore:PG | UK:12A

Filming Locations:

Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India

Company:

Excel Entertainment

Trivia:

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.)

Goofs:

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.

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.

Movie Connections:

Features Commando (1985)

Good story, well told

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.