Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo (2004)

Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo Movie Trailer 2004

Crew

Directed by     Anil Sharma
Produced by     Akshay Kumar
Screenplay by     Shaktimaan Talwar
Story by     Shaktimaan Talwar
Music by     Anu Malik
Cinematography     Kabir Lal
Editing by     Ballu Saluja
Distributed by     Movie World

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Major General Amarjeet Singh
    Akshay Kumar as Major Rajeev
    Bobby Deol as Lt. Commander Vikramjeet Singh / Captain Kunaljeet Singh
    Nagma as Aarti
    Kapil Sharma as Captain Trilok
    Divya Khosla as Shweta
    Sandali Sinha as Sakshi
    Danny Denzongpa as Col. Ashfaque Khan
    Ashutosh Rana as Sikander Khan
    Govind Namdeo as Maqsood Bhat
    Vivek Shauq
    Surendra Pal
    Aarti Chabria as Triloks wife
    Arif Zakaria
    Rajesh Vivek
    Vishwajeet Pradhan as Subedar Abdul
    Amrish Puri as a Narrator

Story

Major General Amarjeet Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a dedicated officer for the Indian army. His son Lieutenant Commander Vikramjeet Singh (Bobby Deol) follows in his footsteps and joins the navy. Amarjeet is extremely proud of Vikramjeet but tragedy strikes when Vikramjeet is killed in action in a torpedo attack by a French made Ghazi class enemy Pakistani sub during the 1971 Indo-Pak conflict. After the defeat of Pakistan and India's victory everything is forgotten but the hatred and rivalry by a captured Pakistani POW remains.

Years later Kunal joins army but has no intentions of remaining there. Amarjeet succeeds in making Kunal do something to honour his deceased brother. Kunal comes across a desert party and sees Shweta Bhansali Divya Khosla. It is love at first sight for him but she totally ignores him and does everything to avoid him. However she is doing this for a reason- she was once married. Shweta fell in love and married Major Rajeev Singh (Akshay Kumar), unfortunately he was deployed for action on his wedding day and he had to leave his newly wed bride...

In 1971 during the Indo-Pak war and the formation of Bangladesh, Lt. Commander Vikramjeet Singh has a ship in his command and a regiment of soldiers of the Indian Army, commandeered by his dad, Major General Amarjeet Singh. The ship comes under attack by a submarine of the Pakistani Navy, undergoes damage, and sinks along with Vikramjeet, but not before he courageously rescues about a hundred of trapped army soldiers. Years later, Vikramjeet's son Kunaljeet joins the army as a Captain, but he lacks the values his dad and grandfather had in them about serving the country selflessly. He just wants to be employed with the army for a couple of years, then re-locate to the U.S., run a business, and make lots of money. In order to accomplish this he always makes up excuses of not going to the front. He falls in love with Shweta Bhansali, and decides to stay in the army in order to be close to her. In order to achieve a medal, he fakes heroism; then carelessly jeopardizes a planned attack on terrorists and as a result several terrorist escape to their hideouts. Disciplined and chastised, an injured and humbled Kunaljeet awaits to meet his sweetheart - only to find out that she is in love and married to his senior Officer Major Rajeev Singh,who is assumed to be dead but actually is a prisoner of war. The only thread binding him to the army is broken, and it is then Kunaljeet finds out that the terrorists in collusion with rebel Pakistani officers are planning to bomb the Bhagwan Shivji's Amarnath Temple in Jammu & Sikkim in order to wipe out the Hindu religion and culture once and for all. Will Kunaljeet act accordingly to save some lives, or will his rashness result in more casualties.

Did you know?

1. Akshay Kumar asked director Anil Sharma to give a disabled fan of his a role in the movie. The fan, Puran Chauhan, who lost his leg in a roadside accident at the age of five, was given a small part.
2. This marks the debut of 'Anil Sharma''s younger brother Kapil Sharma.
3. Akshay Kumar was ready to opt out of the film if he had to mouth anti-Pakistani lines - he didn't want to hurt the feelings of his Pakistani fans. He rejoined the cast when his lines were rewritten.
4. Five ships were used for the starting scene and sailed from Vishakapatnam, with shooting happening as far as 200 km from land. Quite a few of the crew were noted to have gotten sea sick.
5. The scene where sea water gushes into the ship after being torpedoed, was shot inside the Indian Navy's "Damage Control Simulator" at the land base INS Shivaji.
6. Nagma's screen name is never mentioned throughout the whole film