Satya's blog - Lakshya

Jul 11 2005 18:54 Lakshya
'Lakshya' has to be the first decent Hindi movie I've seen for some time. Credible performances by Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, and others. No over-the-top acting, no overly emotional scenes, everything moderate but just enough to give you a feel for the characters. Just the right amount of humor. Even the musical numbers aren't completely out of place. No "dream sequences" -- yet. The scenes of Hrithik's character's background are decently done, too.

It still has the usual war movie cliches: the friend who dies, the girl back home (though she's a reporter who gets involved -- another cliche). And the obligatory "why are we fighting" "because we have to" shouting match between the civilian observer and the military guy -- again, properly done, not over the top. It's probably exactly what an army guy would come up with in that situation anyway. And they had a random extra do it, not the lead, which is good. Extras are people, too.

Alright, the romantic sub-plot was unnecessary.

Hey, Amitabh's character is shown to be Maharashtrian. I wonder if he really knows Marathi or was he just mouthing sounds.

So at one point a bus pulls up and unloads a wounded soldier. That looked so much like MASH -- I've been watching the DVDs in broadcast order -- I was expecting Hawkeye to come running up.

Okay, everything I said before goes for the first half -- the first 90 minutes or so. Around the 2-hour mark I was wondering, how much more?

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