Deewaar (2004 film)
| Deewaar | |
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| Directed by | Milan Luthria |
| Produced by | Gaurang Doshi |
| Written by | Milan Luthria (dialogue) |
| Screenplay by |
Shridhar Raghavan Gaurang Doshi Milan Luthria |
| Story by |
S. Gopala Reddy Milan Luthria |
| Starring |
Amitabh Bachchan Sanjay Dutt Akshaye Khanna Amrita Rao Aditya Srivastava |
| Music by | Aadesh Shrivastav |
| Cinematography | Nirmal Jani |
| Edited by | Hozefa Lokhandwala |
| Distributed by | V. R. Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 161 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹375 million (US$5.5 million) |
Deewaar - Let's Bring Our Heroes Home is a 2004 Bollywood, war film directed by Milan Luthria, produced by Gaurang Doshi and written by S. Gopala Reddy. The film is an adaptation of escape of Indian Army's prisoners of war during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and also describes the father-son relationship.The film under performed at the box office and was given a average verdict at the box office.[1]
Plot
Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a prisoner of war who was captured along with over 50 soldiers by Pakistani soldiers in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan.
33 years later (in 2004) Major Kaul'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. They steal, kill, and plan to get the prisoners out. They finally succeed and get the prisoners into India, killing all the Pakistani officers. Radhika then starts to love Gaurav.
Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan as Maj. Ranvir Kaul
- Sanjay Dutt as Khan
- Piyush Mishra as Qureshi
- Akshaye Khanna as Gaurav Kaul
- Amrita Rao as Radhika
- Raghuvir Yadav as Jata
- Kay Kay Menon as Sohail
- Nishikant Dixit as Capt. Ajit Verma
- Aditya Shrivastava as Ezaz
- Rajendranath Zutshi
- Akhilendra Mishra
- Tanuja as Ranvir Kaul's wife
- Pradeep Rawat as Baldev
- Arif Zakaria as Rajan
- D. Santosh as P.O.W. Raghu Jen
- Kamlesh Sawant as Nayyar
- Sanjay Narvekar
Music
Music for the film was composed by Aadesh Shrivastav. The lyrics were written by Nusrat Badr.
- "Ali Ali", sung by Krishna Beura, Shraddha Pandit and Vijayta (5:57)
- "Chaliye Va Chaliye", sung by Udit Narayan and Roop Kumar Rathod (5:56)
- "Kara Kaga", sung by Alka Yagnik (4:19)
- "Marhaba Marhaba", sung by Sonu Nigam and Xenia Ali (5:18)
- "Piya Bawri", sung by Alka Yagnik and Kailash Kher (4:52)
- "Todenge Deewaar Hum", sung by Udit Narayan and Mukul Agrawal (4:43)
References
- ↑ Mark Kermode. "Film of the week: Deewaar | From the Observer | The Observer". Guardian. Retrieved 2014-08-05.