Film: Heroes

Director: Samir Karnik

Cast: Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Sohail Khan, Amrita Arora, Vatsal Seth, Dino Morea, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Mithun Chakraborthy, Riya Sen

Rating: 2.5/5

The relationship of the Indian army and Bollywood filmmakers seems to be a one long one. This relationship has only been explored by placing our actors in armymen’s shoes and panning the camera over scenes of war; seldom have the range of emotions and the familial trauma been explored. Heroes in entirety does this well, but beyond a point from addressing emotions starts addressing problems and actions.

Undoubtedly yet another army film, yet with a completely fresh perspective. The film strikes an emotional chord by entailing the lives of three army men and their families. Almost like three short films, the link between the three stories is the fact that Sammy (Sohail Khan) and Ali (Vatsal Seth) witness all of it first hand as a part of their film project of ‘why not to join the army’. The two film students play postman to three army martyr families, in hope that they can gather material for the film. The first visit is to Kuljeet (Preity Zinta) a war widow, who plays the role of both the parents to her son. Visiting her and hearing the story of her army husband Balkar Singh (Salman Khan) the two are hit with a wave of emotions.

Next up for a postal delivery is Vikram Shergill (Sunny Deol), brother of Captain Dhananjay (Bobby Deol). While Vikram lost both of his legs in an air force crash, his will to live is undeterred. Sitting on his wheel chair he fights, remembers his brother and even manages to provoke a threat of sentiment in the two lads. Having gone through the whirlwind of emotions, the two young men decide to head for their final destination Shaqils’ (Dino) home in Leh. On reaching there the two men experience a family like none other, a mother who is trying hard to remember her son and a father (Mithun CHakravarthy) who is trying harder to muster enough hate towards his son for having left him to live with nothing to look forward to. Through the course of these three visits Sammy and Ali traverse...

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