Director: Anil Sharma
Cast: Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel, Amrish Puri, Lilette Dubey
Set in the turbulent times of the partition 'Gadar - Ek Prem Katha' depicts the growing love between Tara Singh, a truck driver, and Sakina, a muslim girl, from a wealthy family, and the trail of blood it leaves on both sides. The film begins promisingly enough, with the ambience of the 1940s well recreated, the riots and the crowd scenes well picturised.
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While her family manages to flee to Lahore, Tara rescues Sakina who is left behind. Sakina growing fond of Tara, abandons her plan to go to Lahore, marries Tara and bears him a son. Circumstances take her to Lahore, where her father, now the
influential Mayor of the place, tries to force her to marry the son of a powerful politician. How Tara rescues her, and the family finally reconciles forms the rest of the story. The tender growing love
between Tara and Sakina, and the poignant scenes between Tara and his little son are well depicted. Sunny Deol has a heavy burden to carry, what with Tara undergoing so many moods and experiences, and having to single handedly demolish almost the entire Pakistani army! He does it fairly well, except, when he now and then gives out a wild scream that puts fear in the Paks, who run away like the devil was chasing them. Amisha Patel gets most of our sympathy, what with the character being harassed from the first scene to the last, having very few moments of happiness, her sweet, soft face tugging at one's heart strings.
The director has made sure that the message reaches the audience. If the guys, this side of the border, are righteous, kind and smart, the Muslims on the other side are mean, cunning and cowards.
It is time for the hero to teach them a proper lesson as he takes on the might of the powerful Mayor of Lahore, in the latter's own closely guarded fort on Pakistani soil, fights single-handedly the Pakistan army, sends them rolling down like nine pins when they, in 'Sholay' style, attack the train in which he is returning with Sakina. And finally gets the arrogant Mayor to cow down before him and apologise for all his vile actions. There is no attempt at any subtlety here!
Malini Mannath
