Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010)

Deprived of playing football by oppressive British, children decide to join a group of freedom fighters.

Director:

Ashutosh Gowariker

Writers:

Javed Akhtar (lyrics), Ashutosh Gowariker (screenplay),

Stars:

Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Sikander Kher

Cast

Credited cast:
Abhishek Bachchan	...	Surjya Sen
Deepika Padukone	...	Kalpana Dutta
Sikander Kher	...	Nirmal Sen
Maninder Singh	...	Anant Singh
Feroz Wahid Khan	...	Lokenath Bal
Shreyas Pandit	...	Ambika Chakraborty
Samrat Mukherjee	...	Ganesh Ghosh
Vishakha Singh	...	Pritilata
Munford Monty	...	Major Johnson
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Reena Anurag
Arun Babani
Madhuri Bhandekar	...	(as Madhuri Bandiwdekar)
Jan Bostock
Anuradha Chandan
Alorika Chatterjee

Storyline

Circa 1930 in Chittagong, male teenagers are asked by British soldiers to play football elsewhere. Since there is no other ground, they decide to approach widower school-master Surjya Sen, and join his band of freedom fighters. Since Gandhi had announced a ban of violence for one year, Surjya patiently waits, then raises Rs.18000/-, with this amount he procures guns, four vehicles and 25 bicycles, and inducts two women, Pritilata, and Kalpana Dutta in his team. Their plan is to surprise the British by disabling telecommunications and transportation, liberating jailed comrades, taking guns and ammunition from the armory, and holding Britishers hostage at the European Club. Before they could carry out their plan, both women are instructed by their respective families to re-locate to Calcutta. Surjya, nevertheless decides to simultaneously carry out the attacks but his group is unable to hold any hostages due to the holiday of Good Friday, and the raid on the armory gets them rifles but ...

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Genres:

Action | Drama | History

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Details

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Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Bengali English

Release Date:

3 December 2010 (India)

Filming Locations:

Goa, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ashutosh Gowariker Productions Pvt. Ltd., UTV Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Naiyn Tere"
(Sad)
Sung by Pamela Jain
Composed by Sohail Sen

User Reviews

It's a perfect history lesson.

Ashutosh Gowariker retells the astounding true story of the Chittagong uprising of 1930. Led by a fiery school teacher, a band of 64 revolutionaries, most of them school-going teenagers, launched five simultaneous attacks on British strongholds in Chittagong including the cantonment area and the telegraph office Ashutosh recreates this largely forgotten event with sincerity and sweat but unfortunately Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey comes off a high school history lesson: plodding, stilted and in long stretches.

The film's entire first half is the set-up to the event the nuts and bolts of planning a revolt, getting enough investment, planning and co-ordinating each step. Ashutosh introduces us to half a dozen characters but the screenplay doesn't adequately flesh out even one.

The second half has more urgency and momentum and climaxes in the inevitably tragic but rousing finale.The dialogue is always lofty and theatrical and the actors are insistently noble. Abhishek Bachchan, who plays the leader Surjya Sen, is in sober, benevolently smiling mode. We get little hint of the fire in his belly.

This is a great effort to bring such hidden subject in front of us but if you like fast paced cinema then its not your type of movie.

If you love good cinema,watch it. My vote 7 out of 10.