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| name = Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home | | name = Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home | ||
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| director = [[Milan Luthria]] | | director = [[Milan Luthria]] | ||
| producer = Gaurang Doshi | | producer = Gaurang Doshi | ||
| screenplay = Shridhar Raghavan<br />Gaurang Doshi | | screenplay = [[Shridhar Raghavan]]<br />Gaurang Doshi | ||
| story = [[S. Gopala Reddy]]<br />Milan Luthria | | story = [[S. Gopala Reddy]]<br />Milan Luthria | ||
| writer = Milan Luthria | | writer = Milan Luthria | ||
| starring = [[Amitabh Bachchan]]<br />[[Sanjay Dutt]]<br />[[Akshaye Khanna]]<br />[[Amrita Rao]]<br />[[Sanjay Narvekar]]<br />[[Aditya Srivastava]] | | starring = [[Amitabh Bachchan]]<br />[[Sanjay Dutt]]<br />[[Akshaye Khanna]]<br />[[Amrita Rao]]<br />[[Sanjay Narvekar]]<br />[[Aditya Srivastava]] | ||
| music = [[Aadesh Shrivastav]] | | music = [[Aadesh Shrivastav]] | ||
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| country = India | | country = India | ||
| language = Hindi | | language = Hindi | ||
| budget = | | budget = {{INR}}210 million<ref name="auto">{{cite news|date=9 March 2020|title=Guardian cartoon of cow in relation to Priti Patel sparks outrage amongst diaspora in Britain|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/guardian-cartoon-of-cow-in-relation-to-priti-patel-sparks-outrage-amongst-diaspora-in-britain/articleshow/74557770.cms|url-status=live|access-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911224645/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/guardian-cartoon-of-cow-in-relation-to-priti-patel-sparks-outrage-amongst-diaspora-in-britain/articleshow/74557770.cms|archive-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> | ||
| gross = | | gross = {{INR}}286 million<ref name="auto"/> | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''''Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home''''' ({{translation|The Wall}}) is a 2004 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]] | '''''Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home''''' ({{translation|The Wall}}) is a 2004 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]] directed by [[Milan Luthria]], produced by Gaurang Doshi and written by Luthria, Doshi, [[S. Gopala Reddy]]. The film stars [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Sanjay Dutt]], [[Akshaye Khanna]] and [[Amrita Rao]]. It has no connection to the 1975 film ''[[Deewaar]]'', also starring Bachchan, and is inspired by the 1963 film [[The Great Escape (film)|''The Great Escape'']].<ref name="variety">{{Cite news |last=Elley |first=Derek |date=24 June 2004 |title=Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/deewaar-let-s-bring-our-heroes-home-1200532619/ |access-date=19 April 2018 |archive-date=19 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419183414/http://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/deewaar-let-s-bring-our-heroes-home-1200532619/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
''Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home'' released worldwide on | ''Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home'' released worldwide on 25 June 2004 and received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances of Bachchan, Khanna and Dutt, but criticism for its length and pacing. Commercially, the film was average. A similar story plot inspired by this movie was used 19 years later in the blockbuster Bollywood movie ''[[Gadar 2]]'' (2023). | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
Indian Army Major Ranvir Kaul and some 30 of his colleagues were captured in [[Pakistan]] and held under brutal conditions for 33 years. Kaul attempts another escape but is caught, beaten, berated, and thrown back in prison. During the fracas, one of his men does flee and, through a sympathetic friend, Jabbar, sends a letter home. Kaul's wife and son petition the Indian Army, but the General, though sympathetic, has his hands tied. He raises the subject, and Pakistan will deny it, and immediately the men will be shot; he cannot authorize Army action absent hard evidence (not just a letter); there are no other options. Kaul's son, Gaurav sets off to find his father. | Indian Army Major Ranvir Kaul and some 30 of his colleagues were captured in [[Pakistan]] and held under brutal conditions for 33 years (since the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]). Kaul attempts another escape but is caught, beaten, berated, and thrown back in prison. During the fracas, one of his men does flee and, through a sympathetic friend, Jabbar, sends a letter home. Kaul's wife and son petition the Indian Army, but the General, though sympathetic, has his hands tied. He raises the subject, and Pakistan will deny it, and immediately the men will be shot; he cannot authorize Army action absent hard evidence (not just a letter); there are no other options. Kaul's son, Gaurav sets off to find his father. | ||
Gaurav meets Jabbar and discovers that his father has been transferred to a different prison camp, Saran Jail, under the cunning and sadistic Sohail. Kaul meets another set of captured Indian POWs at this new prison. Kaul attempts another escape. One man sacrifices himself on the electric fence as others go through. Sohail bemusedly sighs as the others, once past the fence, are blown up by the landmines. Kaul and the remaining prisoners are again beaten and kicked back into their barracks. One of the prisoners, Khan manages to evade the landmines and escapes. Gaurav meets him accidentally and brings him to safety. | Gaurav meets Jabbar and discovers that his father has been transferred to a different prison camp, Saran Jail, under the cunning and sadistic warden Sohail Miyaan. Kaul meets another set of captured Indian POWs at this new prison. Kaul attempts another escape. One man sacrifices himself on the electric fence as others go through. Sohail bemusedly sighs as the others, once past the fence, are blown up by the landmines. Kaul and the remaining prisoners are again beaten and kicked back into their barracks. One of the prisoners, Khan, manages to evade the landmines and escapes. Gaurav meets him accidentally and brings him to safety. | ||
Gaurav attacks a military courier and in the very act of using his uniforms, infiltrates a Pakistan Army office block. He steals a set of plans | Gaurav attacks a military courier and, in the very act of using his uniforms, infiltrates a Pakistan Army office block. He steals a set of plans that reveal a water main under the prison. His father and the men can dig their way to this main and crawl out. With great reluctance, Khan gets arrested again. Sohail correctly guesses that Khan is back for a reason. Khan discloses to Kaul that his son is here; this news, and the water main, is a great inspiration for the men. | ||
The men quietly begin digging a tunnel to the water main. They discover the body of an Indian Army Captain Jatin in the debris under the prison, but this Jatin is among them! Khan and Kaul realize that he is, in fact, a Pakistani spy. Gaurav and Khan had planned the escape for the night of the tenth, and Jatin, the spy, had dutifully reported this back to Sohail. Kaul and Khan decide that the escape will happen on the ninth. Jatin is not told of this, but the men manage to send a coded message to Gaurav. The following day Khan notices the number 9 scrawled on an army supply truck entering the prison | The men quietly begin digging a tunnel to the water main. They discover the body of an Indian Army Captain Jatin in the debris under the prison, but this Jatin is among them! Khan and Kaul realize that he is, in fact, a Pakistani spy. Gaurav and Khan had planned the escape for the night of the tenth, and Jatin, the spy, had dutifully reported this back to Sohail. Kaul and Khan decide that the escape will happen on the ninth. Jatin is not told of this, but the men manage to send a coded message to Gaurav. The following day Khan notices the number 9 scrawled on an army supply truck entering the prison; it is Gaurav's reply. He will await the men near the water main outlet on the ninth. | ||
On the night of the escape, the men overpower the guards and kill Jatin. They enter the water main and begin digging away the last few meters of remaining debris. The knocking in the pipes travels up to | On the night of the escape, the men overpower the guards and kill Jatin. They enter the water main and begin digging away the last few meters of remaining debris. The knocking in the pipes travels up to Sohail's kitchen sink; Sohail quickly discovers the escape and hotly pursues the men down the pipe. Gaurav digs from the other side, and, just in the nick of time, the debris is cleared, and father and son are reunited. The men make it through. One of them sacrifices himself on a land mine inside the water main, which caves in and blocks Sohail. | ||
Gaurav leads his father and the men to a railway line, but the train is delayed. The men split up to avoid detection and | Gaurav leads his father and the men to a railway line, but the train is delayed. The men split up to avoid detection and arranged to meet at dawn near a border point. They arrive at the border point, but Sohail and his men are in close pursuit. There is a firefight. Khan puts up a brave fight but is shot down. Ranvir Kaul and Gaurav and the handful of remaining prisoners finally get across the border in a Pakistani army truck. Sohail is right behind them, but his Jeep is disarmed, and he is surrounded by Kaul and the prisoners. Kaul points to the borderline behind them; they are now on Indian soil. Kaul, now an Indian Army soldier, attacks and kills Sohail in hand-to-hand combat and throws his body across the border. | ||
The film ends as Ranvir Kaul | The film ends as Ranvir Kaul and his men are reinstated in the Indian Army and salute the Indian tricolor. | ||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
*[[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Maj. Ranvir Kaul, Gaurav's father. | |||
*[[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Maj. Ranvir Kaul, Gaurav's father | *[[Sanjay Dutt]] as Khan, Ranvir's fellow prisoner. | ||
*[[Sanjay Dutt]] as Khan, Ranvir's fellow prisoner | *[[Akshaye Khanna]] as Gaurav Kaul, Ranvir's son. | ||
*[[Akshaye Khanna]] as Gaurav Kaul, Ranvir's son | |||
*[[Piyush Mishra]] as Qureshi | *[[Piyush Mishra]] as Qureshi | ||
*[[Amrita Rao]] as Radhika, Jabbar's daughter | *[[Amrita Rao]] as Radhika Saluja, Jabbar's daughter and Gaurav's love interest. | ||
*[[Raghuvir Yadav]] as Jata | *[[Raghuvir Yadav]] as Jata | ||
*[[Kay Kay Menon]] as Sohail Miyaan | *[[Kay Kay Menon]] as Sohail Miyaan | ||
* | *Nishikant Dixit as Capt. Ajit Verma | ||
*[[Aditya Srivastava]] as Eijaz Shaikh | *[[Aditya Srivastava]] as Eijaz Shaikh | ||
*[[Rajendranath Zutshi]] as Capt. Jatin Kumar/Pakistan spy | *[[Rajendranath Zutshi]] as Capt. Jatin Kumar / Pakistan spy | ||
*[[Akhilendra Mishra]] as Jabbar, Radhika's father | *[[Akhilendra Mishra]] as Jabbar Saluja, Radhika's father. | ||
*[[Tanuja]] as Ranvir Kaul's wife and Gaurav's mother | *[[Tanuja]] as Ranvir Kaul's wife and Gaurav's mother. | ||
*[[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]] as Baldev | *[[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]] as Baldev | ||
*[[Arif Zakaria]] as Rajan | *[[Arif Zakaria]] as Rajan | ||
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*[[Rajendra Gupta]] as Anand | *[[Rajendra Gupta]] as Anand | ||
*[[Ashraful Haque (actor)|Ashraful Haque]] as Naru | *[[Ashraful Haque (actor)|Ashraful Haque]] as Naru | ||
== | == Soundtrack == | ||
Music for the film was composed by [[Aadesh Shrivastav]]. The lyrics were written by [[Nusrat Badr]].{{ | Music for the film was composed by [[Aadesh Shrivastav]]. The lyrics were written by [[Nusrat Badr]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elley |first=Derek |date=2004-06-24 |title=Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home |url=https://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/deewaar-let-s-bring-our-heroes-home-1200532619/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> | ||
'''Track list''' | |||
{{track listing | |||
| extra_column = Singer(s) | |||
| total_length = | |||
| title1 = Ali Ali | |||
| extra1 = [[Krishna Beura]], [[Shraddha Pandit]], Vijayta | |||
| length1 = 5:57 | |||
| title2 = Chaliye Va Chaliye | |||
| extra2 = [[Udit Narayan]], [[Roop Kumar Rathod]] | |||
| length2 = 5:56 | |||
| title3 = Kara Kaga | |||
| extra3 = [[Alka Yagnik]] | |||
| length3 = 4:19 | |||
| title4 = Marhaba Marhaba | |||
| extra4 = [[Sonu Nigam]], Xenia Ali | |||
| length4 = 5:18 | |||
| title5 = Piya Bawri | |||
| extra5 = Alka Yagnik, [[Kailash Kher]] | |||
| length5 = 4:52 | |||
| title6 = Todenge Deewaar Hum | |||
| extra6 = Udit Narayan, Mukul Agrawal | |||
| length6 = 4:43 | |||
}} | |||
== Critical reception == | == Critical reception == | ||
[[Taran Adarsh]] rated the film 3/5 and stated: "DEEWAAR has an impressive cast, but it is Amitabh Bachchan who towers above all with a splendid and power-packed performance. The actor seems to be accomplishing the unattainable with every film [...] Sanjay Dutt is in form yet again. Although his role isn't as well defined as that of Big B or Akshaye Khanna, Dutt comes up with an extremely likeable performance that is sure to win him plaudits from the viewers. His dialogues are well worded and are sure to appeal to the masses. Akshaye Khanna is a treat to watch. The youngster proves yet again that he is amongst the most gifted actors of the present generation. Amrita Rao is wasted".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adarsh |first=Taran |author-link=Taran Adarsh |date=2004-06-25 |title=Deewaar – Lets bring our heroes home Movie Review |url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/deewaar/critic-review/deewaar-movie-review/ |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |access-date=5 August 2022 |archive-date=5 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805063846/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/deewaar/critic-review/deewaar-movie-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Derek Elley of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' stated, "Though its Indo-Pak politics are more [[Rambo (franchise)|Rambo]] than Romeo, as a barnstorming, jingoistic action movie, ''Deewaar'' delivers".<ref name="variety" /> | [[Taran Adarsh]] rated the film 3/5 and stated: "DEEWAAR has an impressive cast, but it is Amitabh Bachchan who towers above all with a splendid and power-packed performance. The actor seems to be accomplishing the unattainable with every film [...] Sanjay Dutt is in form yet again. Although his role isn't as well defined as that of Big B or Akshaye Khanna, Dutt comes up with an extremely likeable performance that is sure to win him plaudits from the viewers. His dialogues are well worded and are sure to appeal to the masses. Akshaye Khanna is a treat to watch. The youngster proves yet again that he is amongst the most gifted actors of the present generation. Amrita Rao is wasted".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adarsh |first=Taran |author-link=Taran Adarsh |date=2004-06-25 |title=Deewaar – Lets bring our heroes home Movie Review |url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/deewaar/critic-review/deewaar-movie-review/ |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |access-date=5 August 2022 |archive-date=5 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805063846/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/deewaar/critic-review/deewaar-movie-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Derek Elley of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' stated, "Though its Indo-Pak politics are more ''[[Rambo (franchise)|Rambo]]'' than Romeo, as a barnstorming, jingoistic action movie, ''Deewaar'' delivers".<ref name="variety" /> | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[Prisoners of war during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]] | |||
* [[The missing 54]], Indian POWs missing since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 | |||
* [[1971 (2007 film)|''1971'' (2007 film)]], another Indian film about POWs from the 1971 war | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:17, 19 March 2026
| Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Milan Luthria |
| Produced by | Gaurang Doshi |
| Written by | Milan Luthria |
| Screenplay by | Shridhar Raghavan Gaurang Doshi |
| Story by | S. Gopala Reddy Milan Luthria |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Sanjay Dutt Akshaye Khanna Amrita Rao Sanjay Narvekar Aditya Srivastava |
| Music by | Aadesh Shrivastav |
| Cinematography | Nirmal Jani |
| Edited by | Hozefa Lokhandwala |
| Distributed by | V. R. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 161 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹210 million[1] |
| Box office | ₹286 million[1] |
Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home (transl. The Wall) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Milan Luthria, produced by Gaurang Doshi and written by Luthria, Doshi, S. Gopala Reddy. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna and Amrita Rao. It has no connection to the 1975 film Deewaar, also starring Bachchan, and is inspired by the 1963 film The Great Escape.[2]
Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home released worldwide on 25 June 2004 and received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances of Bachchan, Khanna and Dutt, but criticism for its length and pacing. Commercially, the film was average. A similar story plot inspired by this movie was used 19 years later in the blockbuster Bollywood movie Gadar 2 (2023).
Plot[edit | edit source]
Indian Army Major Ranvir Kaul and some 30 of his colleagues were captured in Pakistan and held under brutal conditions for 33 years (since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971). Kaul attempts another escape but is caught, beaten, berated, and thrown back in prison. During the fracas, one of his men does flee and, through a sympathetic friend, Jabbar, sends a letter home. Kaul's wife and son petition the Indian Army, but the General, though sympathetic, has his hands tied. He raises the subject, and Pakistan will deny it, and immediately the men will be shot; he cannot authorize Army action absent hard evidence (not just a letter); there are no other options. Kaul's son, Gaurav sets off to find his father.
Gaurav meets Jabbar and discovers that his father has been transferred to a different prison camp, Saran Jail, under the cunning and sadistic warden Sohail Miyaan. Kaul meets another set of captured Indian POWs at this new prison. Kaul attempts another escape. One man sacrifices himself on the electric fence as others go through. Sohail bemusedly sighs as the others, once past the fence, are blown up by the landmines. Kaul and the remaining prisoners are again beaten and kicked back into their barracks. One of the prisoners, Khan, manages to evade the landmines and escapes. Gaurav meets him accidentally and brings him to safety.
Gaurav attacks a military courier and, in the very act of using his uniforms, infiltrates a Pakistan Army office block. He steals a set of plans that reveal a water main under the prison. His father and the men can dig their way to this main and crawl out. With great reluctance, Khan gets arrested again. Sohail correctly guesses that Khan is back for a reason. Khan discloses to Kaul that his son is here; this news, and the water main, is a great inspiration for the men.
The men quietly begin digging a tunnel to the water main. They discover the body of an Indian Army Captain Jatin in the debris under the prison, but this Jatin is among them! Khan and Kaul realize that he is, in fact, a Pakistani spy. Gaurav and Khan had planned the escape for the night of the tenth, and Jatin, the spy, had dutifully reported this back to Sohail. Kaul and Khan decide that the escape will happen on the ninth. Jatin is not told of this, but the men manage to send a coded message to Gaurav. The following day Khan notices the number 9 scrawled on an army supply truck entering the prison; it is Gaurav's reply. He will await the men near the water main outlet on the ninth.
On the night of the escape, the men overpower the guards and kill Jatin. They enter the water main and begin digging away the last few meters of remaining debris. The knocking in the pipes travels up to Sohail's kitchen sink; Sohail quickly discovers the escape and hotly pursues the men down the pipe. Gaurav digs from the other side, and, just in the nick of time, the debris is cleared, and father and son are reunited. The men make it through. One of them sacrifices himself on a land mine inside the water main, which caves in and blocks Sohail.
Gaurav leads his father and the men to a railway line, but the train is delayed. The men split up to avoid detection and arranged to meet at dawn near a border point. They arrive at the border point, but Sohail and his men are in close pursuit. There is a firefight. Khan puts up a brave fight but is shot down. Ranvir Kaul and Gaurav and the handful of remaining prisoners finally get across the border in a Pakistani army truck. Sohail is right behind them, but his Jeep is disarmed, and he is surrounded by Kaul and the prisoners. Kaul points to the borderline behind them; they are now on Indian soil. Kaul, now an Indian Army soldier, attacks and kills Sohail in hand-to-hand combat and throws his body across the border.
The film ends as Ranvir Kaul and his men are reinstated in the Indian Army and salute the Indian tricolor.
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Amitabh Bachchan as Maj. Ranvir Kaul, Gaurav's father.
- Sanjay Dutt as Khan, Ranvir's fellow prisoner.
- Akshaye Khanna as Gaurav Kaul, Ranvir's son.
- Piyush Mishra as Qureshi
- Amrita Rao as Radhika Saluja, Jabbar's daughter and Gaurav's love interest.
- Raghuvir Yadav as Jata
- Kay Kay Menon as Sohail Miyaan
- Nishikant Dixit as Capt. Ajit Verma
- Aditya Srivastava as Eijaz Shaikh
- Rajendranath Zutshi as Capt. Jatin Kumar / Pakistan spy
- Akhilendra Mishra as Jabbar Saluja, Radhika's father.
- Tanuja as Ranvir Kaul's wife and Gaurav's mother.
- Pradeep Rawat as Baldev
- Arif Zakaria as Rajan
- D. Santosh as P.O.W. Raghu Jen
- Kamlesh Sawant as Nayyar
- Sanjay Narvekar as Marathe
- Rajendra Gupta as Anand
- Ashraful Haque as Naru
Soundtrack[edit | edit source]
Music for the film was composed by Aadesh Shrivastav. The lyrics were written by Nusrat Badr.[3]
Track list
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ali Ali" | Krishna Beura, Shraddha Pandit, Vijayta | 5:57 |
| 2. | "Chaliye Va Chaliye" | Udit Narayan, Roop Kumar Rathod | 5:56 |
| 3. | "Kara Kaga" | Alka Yagnik | 4:19 |
| 4. | "Marhaba Marhaba" | Sonu Nigam, Xenia Ali | 5:18 |
| 5. | "Piya Bawri" | Alka Yagnik, Kailash Kher | 4:52 |
| 6. | "Todenge Deewaar Hum" | Udit Narayan, Mukul Agrawal | 4:43 |
Critical reception[edit | edit source]
Taran Adarsh rated the film 3/5 and stated: "DEEWAAR has an impressive cast, but it is Amitabh Bachchan who towers above all with a splendid and power-packed performance. The actor seems to be accomplishing the unattainable with every film [...] Sanjay Dutt is in form yet again. Although his role isn't as well defined as that of Big B or Akshaye Khanna, Dutt comes up with an extremely likeable performance that is sure to win him plaudits from the viewers. His dialogues are well worded and are sure to appeal to the masses. Akshaye Khanna is a treat to watch. The youngster proves yet again that he is amongst the most gifted actors of the present generation. Amrita Rao is wasted".[4] Derek Elley of Variety stated, "Though its Indo-Pak politics are more Rambo than Romeo, as a barnstorming, jingoistic action movie, Deewaar delivers".[2]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Prisoners of war during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- The missing 54, Indian POWs missing since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- 1971 (2007 film), another Indian film about POWs from the 1971 war
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Guardian cartoon of cow in relation to Priti Patel sparks outrage amongst diaspora in Britain". The Hindu. 9 March 2020. Archived from the original on 11 September 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Elley, Derek (24 June 2004). "Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home". Variety. Archived from the original on 19 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ↑ Elley, Derek (24 June 2004). "Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home". Variety. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ↑ Adarsh, Taran (25 June 2004). "Deewaar – Lets bring our heroes home Movie Review". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 5 August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.