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

Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a POW who was captured along with over 30 soldiers by Pakistani soldiers in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan. 33 years later Ranvir's ... See full summary »

Director:

Milan Luthria

Writers:

Anurag Kashyap (dialogue), Shridhar Raghavan (screenplay)

Stars:

Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna

2 nominations.

Cast

Credited 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

Storyline

Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a POW who was captured along with over 30 soldiers by Pakistani soldiers in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan. 33 years later Ranvir's son Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna) decides to go on a rescue mission to Pakistan and bring back his father who he has not seen since he was a child. Helping him on his mission is Khan (Sanjay Dutt) who had successfully escaped from the same prison.

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Plot Keywords:

pakistan | prisoner | prison | escape | shot through a door | 

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Taglines:

54 men trapped behind enemy lines. . .One man who didn't know how to help. . .Another who didn't want to. . .And the greatest escape ever.

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Genres:

War | Action | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Site

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

25 June 2004 (India)

Also Known As:

Deewaar - Hölle ohne Wiederkehr

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£37,428 (UK) (25 June 2004)

Gross:

£37,428 (UK) (25 June 2004)

Company Credits

Production Co:

V.R. Pictures

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The launch of this movie was different in the sense that there was no coconut-breaking ritual or sounding-the-clapperboard ceremony. Instead the lead men Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna unveiled their giant-sized pictures and clicked the remote for the screening of the one-minute promo.

User Reviews

Deewar:: Lets chase the audience home!

Amitabh should sincerely think twice about the credentials of the director and most importantly the script before giving the nod. And the same I would say for Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna. I mean how is that everyone just overlooked the basic fabric of the movie-making.

Agreed that it the premise of POW has never been attempted before on Indian screen, but that doesn't give you the freedom to take cinematic liberties to such great extent.

Yes the movie is mash of so many English POW Escape movies. But if that was the case, why didn't the makers decide to choose one classic English POW and make a complete re-make of it.

Pakistani bashing - Oh my God!!!! Its so clumsy and cheesy that makes you wonder why it has been forced in such a gawdy manner. Guys - you need to watch Gadar and thats what I call classy Pakistani bashing.

Romantic track - when do Bollywood film-makers ever learn to do away with conventional movie-making!!! Akshaye-Amrita track is so very cliché'd and aptly justifies the word "force-fit".

Marhaba-Marhaba song - my personal opinion the latest Remix albums are much better.

Milan Lutharia no but Sridhar Raghavan Yes, I was expecting a lot from him. But as a writer he was a big downer. The script doesn't have holes, it has craters!!!

It looks like Milan Lutharia was in a hurry to finish the task at the earliest.

Having said of POW premise, please correct me if I am wrong - LOHA was one movie I watched as a kid and was a bloody good engrossing movie.