Lakshya Review

Having watched this movie some 25-odd times I could talk about this movie over and over again.It is a Story of a guy named Karan Shergill who comes from well to do family and has nothing better to do other than to hang with his friends and enjoy all the luxuries of life hard earned by his father , Karan has nothing permanent in his life other than his love interest played by Preity Zinta who comes from an highly educated background is serious of becoming a journalist . Karan's seriousness towards his career in life could be felt and seen as he keeps repeating things heard from here and there and decides to join army inspired by seeing Anold Schwarznegger's action flick.As he joins the army against his family wishes his non-serious nature comes into limelight as he runs away from military academy, Seeing Zinta's reaction to this, he simply could not bear the pain and disrespect in their eyes and decides to go back and join the army again in order to win back the respect of his parents and Zinta. As soon as he passes from the academy he is posted to defend his nation for Kargil war where his regiment lead by Amitabh Bachan is given the task of vacating peak 5179 from intruders. The movie is a must watch with beautiful work of cinematography and locations of north India which will provide you a real warlike feel. The various war operations like briefing, patrolling and how wars are actually carried out are well defined and shot. The emotions of loss of fellow soldier, respect for enemy and importance of little laugh and goofing up at war-time for soldier is well taken care of describing what soldier goes through in those situations, the movie does not losses its hold in justifying its title and rightly depicts struggle of a youth for realizing an aim as anybody has to go through pain in realizing his/her potential and aim. Don't miss the scenes which depicts KARAN'S estranged relationship with his Dad that tells us in a very practical way that people are not like as they behave to us and the kind of time and attention they provide us. I would have gone with 4.5/5 for Farhan Akhtar's LAKSHYA but just because i could empathize with lead character well played by Hritik and wonderful instrumental track of "Seperation" & "Victory" .