Anil Sharma, after the disasterous Maharaja delivers a good film and shows his panache as a director. The film has its share of faults, like a screenplay filled with liberties and a few misplaced song numbers .
The Partition has long since been a subject for passionate film-making. But very few films can actually claim to have captured the horror objectively and well.
The film, however, has all the makings of every kind of appeal. Amisha Patel is simply brilliant in a tragic role that gets converted to a child-woman who has found her home with TaraSunny Deol as the daft Jat is very convincing. But his tendency to portray himself as someone who is violent enough to kill with his blood-curdling yell is a bit much. All he does, at one point, is yell at a battalion of armed Pakistani soldiers, and they turn tail and run. Really! His approach to matters of love and war is piecemeal. Tinu Verma action sequences are first-rate. Actually, they are one of the strong points of the film. Cinematography captures the mood of the 1940s and 50s to perfection. The background score is effective. Lillete Dubey scores yet again. Vivek Shauq, as Sunny friend, supports well. The credit also goes to the writer (Shaktimaan), who has recreated the bygone era without diversifying into various sub-plots, like most script writers do.
Amrish Puri as a Pakistani India-hating fanatic is excellent, as usual.
The film manages to hold interest frame to frame in the first half. And then starts a slide which takes it inexorably first towards pulp patriotism. The film explores these questions and the characters struggle against enormous odds, as the backdrop of one of the most violent events
the music is fresh and good to hear by uttam sing which are noteworthy lyrics and simple music, spinning a very nice track.