• Friday, June 25, 2004

• Country:

  India

• Language:

  Hindi

2004

In the year, 1971 the Indo-Pakistani had a Valiant war. At the end of this war, 92,000 Pakistani soldiers returned home, and 60,000 Indian Defense Personnel also returned. But, 54 Indian soldiers remain unaccounted for. Pakistan denies their presence in any Pakistani jail. Thirty-three years later, their families are still waiting for their return.

Yet, there is proof that the POWs continue to languish in Pakistan jails -- the verbal testimony of someone as eminent as the late Zulfikar Bhutto, photographs in Time Magazine as well as testimonies of other people who had been imprisoned in Pakistan jails. But, it makes no difference. These men are technically neither dead nor alive.

Taglines

• Let's bring our heroes home
• 54 men trapped behind enemy lines. . .One man who didn't know how to help. . .Another who didn't want to. . .And the greatest escape ever.

Trivias

• Belly dancers were flown in from Brazil and Belarus for a raunchy number in a cave.
• The launch of this movie was different in the sense that there was no coconut-breaking ritual or sounding-the-clapperboard ceremony. Instead the lead men Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna unveiled their giant-sized pictures and clicked the remote for the screening of the one-minute promo.
• A portion of the film was shot in the fort (near Varanasi) which is suppose to be located in Karachi, this location was suggested by Amitabh Bachchan.
• A complaint was lodged against producer Gaurang Doshi, by Ravi Bohra with the Film Writers' Association, alleging that the story of the movie resembled his script about POWs in Pakistan. The Association ruled that the movie's story and the one registered by Bohra were similar; Doshi had had to pay 150,000 Rupees to Bohra.
• Amitabh Bachchan and 'Tanuja' will be playing a couple for the first time in 33 years. The last time they played a couple was in the 1971 film Pyar Ki Kahani (1971)

Awards

1. Screen
   Event: Screen Weekly Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Supporting Actor
   Recipient(s): Sanjay Dutt
2. Screen
   Event: Screen Weekly Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Art Direction
   Recipient(s): Jayant Deshmukh