Who would be looking forward to a movie starring Manoj Bajpai , Deepak
Dobriyal , Ravi kishen and a theme of prisoners of war ? none and
that’s precise the reason why such gem of a movie went without any
notice. Deewar also tried to portray this but failed completely .
1971 is a story basically about those prisoners were caught by
Pakistani in 1971 . the events in the film takes place in 1977.
Pakistan has kept this prisoners in jails until one day one of the
prisoners wife gets the letter and she goes to Pakistan in search
taking help from red cross and Pakistan human rights commission. But
Pakistan on knowing this shifts the prisoners to a camp near border .
pakistan forces did not want the prisoners to make any problem s they
show they that they are gonna leave them in 2 months ( after red cross
leaves Pakistan) . but manoj bajpai learns this and they along with
Deepak dobriyal , ravi kishen and three other men makes a plan to free
themselves and what follows is an engaging sequence of events .
the film has good performances from ravi kishen , manoj bajpai and Deepak dobriyal.
Cinematography is quite good and so is background score.
Screenplay takes some time to get some grip but becomes better after the persons try to make themselves free.
Director amrit sagar needs kudos for taking such script and doing justice to it .