The Sanjeev Kumar, Rakesh Roshan, Ashok Kumar and Rekha starrer movie didn't work for me. I latched on to this as I was researching on India made war movies of all times as I am fond of watching good war movies. However I am not at all repulsive to old Romantic movies rather some of my all time favourites are from Romantic Genre only. So after I read the synopsis which tells that this movie blends a love story amid Indo-Pak war of 1971 made me more curious to watch it thinking that it might turn out to be another near perfect movie for me. I got more interested after I watched the video of the movie's song 'Dekho Veer Jawaano ko' which suprebly displayed the army vehicles and the armed personnel with their guns marching and boarding their vehicles to go to the war front it was an inspiring scene with an inspiring song in the background.
But seriously this movie wasn't even close to what I expected, this two hour plus drama misreably fails to tell love story and neither it dedicates quality time to the combat or war scenes. The cinematography turns out to be average even if you take into consideration the time period when it was made. Both leading charaters of the movie are army officers and seriously I did not find any near resemblance with real Armed forces high ranking officers it simply points that moviemakers didn't work properly on the details. It never means that Sanjiv Kumar, Ashok Kumar or Rekhaji's acting wasn't good rather they were the saving grace but I will discredit the director for not using such high skilled actors to portray the characters properly. Rakesh Roshan wasn't good as he has given us much better performances than this as an actor.
In the end movie comes across as a disjointed mishmash of a love story and war, it did not do justice to it's love story and if by mistake any war movie buff happens to watch thinking of this as war movie then he will regret his decision, such mistake can happen because this movie find it's name in the list of 'war movies' made by India. I strongly have my objection on that recommendation, it's title is so misleading.
I have given two stars only for the legendary actors and some good songs.
