Spicezee Bureau
Mumbai, Oct 24: Samir Karnik’s star-packed ‘Heroes’, which released this Friday, has fairly succeeded in conveying the message which says that one does not have to be a soldier to love his country. The film arrives on this well thought of conclusion after treading through the lives of three army men. Although the promos of ‘Heroes’ didn’t look very appealing on TV, but the film has surprisingly opened to a somewhat decent response.
The multi-starrer flick that has an assemblage of leading stars like Salman Khan, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta, Sohail Khan, and Mithun Chakraborty, is a typical masala film with the right dose of Punjabi flavour, patriotism and romance.
Written and directed by Sameer Karnik and Aseem Arora is loosely based on the cult classic ‘The Motorcycles Diaries’, ‘Heroes’ is about a road trip of two guys - Sohail Khan and Vatsal Seth with patriotism as the backdrop. The two boys undertake a journey and in the course of their travel their life becomes enriched with moments and experiences that completely change their outlook.
The film unfolds in three chapters. The first chapter involving Salman-Preity, is the highpoint of the film. The emotional moments in this chapter are charged with the spirit of nationalism. The second chapter presents the Deol brothers in an interesting role. Sunny and Bobby Deol have given a wonderful performance. The last chapter which shows Mithun da might not be impeccable but leaves you pondering as Mithun is likeable in an undoubtedly effective performance.
Ali aka Nawab Saab (Vatsal) and Sameer aka Saand (Sohail) are best buddies who have flunked their film school exams and are required to make a movie in order to graduate. Their friend Priya (Amrita) introduces them to her war journalist cousin (Monish Behl) who tells them that they should deliver some letters to soldiers' families and they will get the content they need for their film and it would be also be an adventurous journey for them.
They are moved by the people they meet, the bereaved family of army man Balkar Singh (Salman), Vikram Shergill (Sunny) who has lost his brother DJ (Bobby) and Dr Naqvi who has lost his son Sahil (Dino).
Preity with minimal make up has pulled off the role of a sardarni pretty well and her Punjabi is just perfect. This is surely one of her best performances in a long time. ‘Anglicised’ Salman has also managed to play the perfect ‘Singh’, and surprisingly, his Punjabi is good too. Dwij Yadav who plays their son is lovable. The story draws you to tears at certain points like the one with Preity crying for Salman and the kite flying at the border scene.
Sunny Deol's character is perfectly cast as the proud former Air Force Squadron leader. Bobby Deol does justice to his character too.
‘Heroes’ definitely strikes a sympathetic chord with all the families who have lost their loved ones for the country. See it to live how it feels to lose a dear one for the love of the country. Three cheers for this one!
First Published: Friday, October 24, 2008, 00:00