Heroes (2008)

Director:

Samir Karnik

Writer:

Samir Karnik (writer)

Release Date:

24 October 2008 (India)

Genre:

Adventure | Musical

Tagline:

Heroes are not born, but created by circumstances!

Cast

Sohail Khan	...	Sameer Suri aka Saand
Vatsal Seth	...	Ali Shah aka Nawab Saab
Amrita Arora	...	Piya
Riya Sen	...	Shivani
Mohnish Bahl	...	Akash Sarin
Preity Zinta	...	Kuljeet Singh
Salman Khan	...	Hav. Balkar Singh / Lt. Jassvinder Singh aka Jassi
Dwij Yadav	...	Young Jassi
Bobby Deol	...	Captain Dhananjay Shergill
Sunny Deol	...	Squadron Leader Vikram Shergill
Hrishitaa Bhatt	...	Vikram's girlfriend
Dino Morea	...	Lt. Sahil Naqvi
Prateeksha Lonkar	...	Mrs. Naqvi
Mithun Chakraborty	...	Dr. Naqvi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ravi Shankar Jaiswal	...	Narayan
Darren Kendrick	...	Pilot

Also Known As:

Mera Bharat Mahaan (India: Hindi title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

139 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Ireland:12A | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Company:

K Sera Sera

Trivia:

The scene when Soheil Jhan goes to buy a condom for his girlfriend on her dad's bike wearing her dad's underwear is very similar to a scene from Chetan Bhagat's novel 'Five point Someone', where the protagonist first makes love with her girlfriend, has to go out urgently, so he wears her girlfriend's dad's shirt, takes his car, and when is returning back meets her dad in way.

Soundtrack:

Makhana

Worth Warching.

I went to see this movie, without having much idea as to what it really was about but then the title almost gave it away – Army.

Director Samir Karnik has handled the topic of the movie in what can only be said as a very well manner and has used the 1999 Kargil conflict as the back ground to the story in which he unfolds stories relating three soldiers who are killed after they give interview on a TV channel during the conflict. This reflects to the real life incident regarding the late Captain Vikram Batra, who many remember almost nine years after the conflict – as he gave an interview during the conflict and was later killed in action. The movie portrays what happens to those family members who are left behind by their beloved ones when they are killed in a conflict whether it is Kargil, Afghanistan or Iraq.

The location setting also goes on to give the atmosphere of the area in which the conflict was fought and goes on to resurrect what village life is like for many of the families whose sons have joined the Army and how each one of them cope with the loss.

The movie seems to be a bit boring at the beginning but then it changes gear and the pace begins and manages to gain the audience attention and maintains that all the way through.

It makes a change to see Salman Khan wearing a turban and not removing his shirt, however, his performance could have been better but never the less, it is semi memorable, while his co – star, Preity Zinta has suited the role of a village woman, who has to take care of her family and perhaps can be considered as a memorable one but it cannot be compared to "Veer Zaara". Other memorable performances are by Sunny Deol as an ex – Air Force pilot who becomes disabled and has had to learn how to live and also Mithun Chakraborthy as a father who is unable bear the loss. But one actor has really gone up the scale in his performance is by Sohail Khan, as a youngster who is on a mission to make a documentary on the three families. Mohnish Behl also makes a friendly appearance.

Conclusion: The movie does echo the Katgil conflict in many ways more than one but it is worth while watching.