SINGERS

Asha Bhonsle
Kishor Kumar
Lata Mangeshkar
Mohamad Rafi
Mukesh
RD Burman

ACTORS

Amitab Bacchan
Asha Parekh
Deva Anand
Rajesh Khanna
Shammi Kappor
Vahida Rehman

MUSIC DIRECTOR

Lakshmi Kant & Payarelal
RD Burman

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GADAR

Zee Network’s GADAR-EK PREM KATHA, directed by Anil Sharma, is set in 1947. The film tells the story of a truck driver, Tara Singh (Sunny Deol), a Sikh, who falls in love with a Muslim girl, Sakina (Amisha Patel), belonging to an aristocratic family.

During the Hindu-Muslim riots that erupted soon after the partition, Tara saves Sakina from a murderous mob chasing her. Subsequently, Sakina starts living in Tara’s house and the respect culminates into love.

Sakina and Tara get married and become parents of a baby-boy. Their life seems like a bed of roses, till Sakina lays her hands on an old newspaper that has a photograph of her father (Amrish Puri), who she believes had been killed during the riots that took place during the partition.

The father is now the Mayor of Lahore and when Sakina calls him from the Pakistani Consulate in Delhi, he arranges to fly her to Lahore. But Tara and their son, who are supposed to accompany her to Lahore, are told at the last minute that their visa formalities have not been completed, which compels them to stay back on the Indian soil.

Sakina reaches Lahore but is totally oblivious of her father’s plans, who wants her to get married to a Pakistani, take up politics as her career and forget all about India, her marriage and her son. After a long wait, an agitated Tara heads lands up in Lahore to get his wife back, but faces the ire of Sakina’s father and relatives.

GADAR relocates you to an era when the British sowed the seeds of hatred between Hindus and Muslims and divided India into two nations – India and Pakistan. A work of fiction, the film tells the story of two individuals, belonging to different religions, who fall in love with each other and the hardships they face before they return to their roots.

The first two reels of this 3.05-hour saga blow your mind with the realistic portrayal of incidents that transpired during the partition. The killing of innocent youth in the name of religion sends a chill down the spine, so realistic is the portrayal.

The sequences thereafter, when Sunny saves Amisha from the mob and gets her home, have been handled with the sensitivity they deserve. Even the sequence prior to this, when Amisha separates from her parents at Amritsar station, makes you realise that partition wasn’t an easy task.

The pace is maintained in the post-interval portions too. The goings-on get exciting when Sunny arrives in Lahore in search of his wife, on the day of her marriage to a Pakistani. The confrontation thereafter, when Amrish Puri tells Sunny to embrace Islam and start living in Pakistan, keeps the viewer spellbound. Even the sequence thereafter, i.e. Sunny going on a rampage when Amrish Puri ridicules India, is a strong point of the film.