LOVED BORDER????WATCH HAQEEQAT AND FALL IN LOVE ONCE AGAIN!!

No denying that INDIAN CINEMA has rarely produced any memorable war based movies. If given an opportunity to the present day youth, at best they can come out with names like BORDER, LOC and...... and the list stops then and there. Both movies directed by J.P. DUTTA, one being an outright hit and another being a box office dud. 

FLASHBACK: 

Two days back I bought a MOSERBAER 3 in 1 DVD which had LAKSHYA, BORDER and LOC ( I know its a fantastic deal.... and the best part being i shelled out a mere Rs.45 from my wallet for such a fantastic deal....... what are you waiting for? GO GRAB one for yourself!!) When my roommate saw BORDER as one of the movies I brought, I could see a sense of pride and excitement on his face when he said "MAN WE WILL WATCH IT SOMEDAY TOGETHER.....IT's BEEN LONG SINCE I lAST SAW BORDER!!" , I couldn't relate to his reaction felt he was insane....

FLASHBACK ENDS.

Today, I saw BORDER and it again established my trust in the famous saying that " BORDER is INDIA's best ever portrayal of a war front". With this sense of pride, I started out with HAQEEQAT, my second movie of the day. HAQEEQAT released way back in 1964, starred BALRAJ SAHANI, DHARMENDRA and a new comer PRIYA RAJVANSHI directed by CHETAN ANAND. Initial frames of the movie established the fact that this movie had it all to prove my above statement about BORDER wrong. After one hour in the movie,I was left with no doubt that J P DUTTA must have referred to this film before making BORDER. Though the last few frames before the climax are a little dragging, but the climax being the high point, is a tear jerker.

In one scene BALRAJ SAHANI's troop has to climb one last mountain to secure themselves from CHINA, but they had no energy left..... and then SAHANI encores

"Main sharminda hooon...ki main tum logon ka sardar hoon .....aaj agar dushman aa jayein abhi....toh aisi hi pade rahoge??? bologe aaao looot lo....."

a troop member replies " MAR JAYENGE PAR CHODENGE NAHIN SALON KO"

SAHANI  encores again....." DUSHMANON k LIYE mar jaane ko tayaar ho....PAR dooosri taraf basse tumhare gharwalon k liye,  apne chahiton k liye tum JEE NAHIN SAKTE!!!"

GADAR!!!!!DIALOGAAAA mARA.....:)

I hate RAPE sequences in movies. But this is the first time I loved a movie in spite of having one. The reason being, in all our indian movies RAPE has always been depicted as a social stigma, the girl takes years to overcome the abuse. But here, our heroine fights at the INDO-CHINA border for her COUNTRY, for her LOVE( DHARMENDRA), few minutes after being abused. One word which came out of my mouth was AMAZING!! and the moment I felt that movie made me happy, by doing something differently, the movie throws another shocker at you in the form of the death of DHARMENDRA and PRIYA RAJVANSHI. The highlight being the FRAME where camera shows TWO HANDS shivering to touch each other and the moment you start thinking they they would make it.....both hands come to stand still(with significant gap still maintained) signifying death of THE HERO and THE HEROINE of the movie.

The CAMERA pans to left on DHARMENDRA's face and the song " KAR CHALE HUM FIDA JAAN-O-TAN SAATHIYON....AB TUMHARE HAWALE VATAN SAATHIYON" starts .....fattttte placement of the song. Don't be surprised if you get GOOSEBUMPS while watching that scene.

There's no denying BORDER still stands tall in my tally, but the last fifteen minutes are what will live with me for the rest of my life....:)...So what are you waiting for? GO WATCH HAQEEQAT ASAP &

FEEL THE LOVE....

LOVE FOR YOUR COUNTRY

LOVE FOR YOUR LOVED ONES....