Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home (2004)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Milan Luthria

Writers:

Anurag Kashyap (dialogue)
Shridhar Raghavan (screenplay)

Release Date:

25 June 2004 (India)

Genre:

War | Action | Drama

Tagline:

Let's bring our heroes home

Plot:

Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a POW who was captured along with over 30 soldiers by Pakistani...

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan	...	Maj. Ranvir Kaul
Sanjay Dutt	...	Khan
Akshaye Khanna	...	Gaurang Kaul
Amrita Rao	...	Radhika
Raghuvir Yadav	...	Jata
Kay Kay Menon	...	Sohail
Akhilendra Mishra
Tanuja	...	Ranvir Kaul's wife
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nishikant Dixit	...	Capt. Ajit Verma
Saurabh Dubey	...	Minister
Rajendra Gupta	...	Anand
Ashraf Ul Haq	...	Naru
Yasir Khan	...	Lt. Rehmat Kazi
Piyush Mishra
Sanjay Narvekar	...	Marathe
Meena Patel	...	Anand's Wife
D. Santosh	...	Lt. Raghu Jena
Kamlesh Sawant	...	Nayyar
Veerendra Saxena	...	Ilias
Pradeep Singh Rawat	...	Baldev
Aditya Srivastava	...	Ejaz
Sudhir	...	Mushtaque
Amar Talwar	...	General Brar
Anil Yadav	...	Altaf
Arif Zakaria	...	Rajan
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Jatin Kumar

Also Known As:

Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home (India: Hindi title) (promotional title)
Gaurang Doshi's Deewaar (India: Hindi title) (alternative spelling)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Australia:MA

Company:

V.R. Pictures

Trivia:

Amitabh Bachchan and 'Tanuja' will be playing a couple for the first time in 33 years. The last time they played a couple was in the 1971 film Pyar Ki Kahani (1971)

Good subject

Two movies back to back which dealt with Indian POWs; Veer Zaara and Deewaar. Although Veer Zara was a love story of a guy who gives everything up for someone, Deewaar focuses on the main subject itself. It is not hidden that many Indian POWs are rotting in Pakistani Jails for years - for whom neither Indian Govt. has time or sympathy nor the other side. I'm sure some of Pakistani POWs are in India as well, but let's focus on the movie. Full of actors. Some were stage actors like Raghubir Yadav, Rajendra Gupta, etc. Amitabh Bachchan who plays the role of a Major, acted well. Akshaye Khanna did his part well. There was nothing for Amrita Rao to do than a few giggles and couple songs. I think Sanjay Dutt's role was most solid even though it wasn't too long. He acted really well here and his dialog delivery was also impressive. If you compare it to LOC, which was nothing but a day long movie with story going in all directions (if it HAD a story) - Deewaar is a well directed movie that keeps a good pace and does justice to all actors. 7.5/10