The war terrain is barren, windswept and dangerous (of course), but strangely you can't taste the threat. Set during the Kargil conflict, Lakshya takes you to the LoC, where Karan's regiment is posted, under the guidance of Damle (Amitabh Bachchan looking every bit the old, untiring soldier he is). We know that the confused young boy is being transformed into a resolved young man, but we can't see him for all the gunfire. What starts off as a potentially interesting account of a rite-of-passage, is then lost in a war movie of sorts.
And things suddenly stop being any fun at all. But it's after this point that the movie lapses into the first of its many clichés, by sending him back to the army and turning him into a boy scout overnight. As he sits in the park and cries, Hrithik looks every bit the awfully young boy he's playing. His father is, sadly, not surprised at all, but his girlfriend is disgusted, and she dumps him. But because he's there for all the wrong reasons, the only thing he succeeds in doing is making a royal ass of himself.Īfter an inglorious start, Karan decides he's had enough and returns home. So to show 'em all - especially his father - Karan runs off and joins the army. If there's one thing everybody, including his girlfriend and partner in hair-crime Romila (Preity Zinta), knows about Karan it's that all he needs is a goal in life. This is the good bit, as you recognize with sickening clarity those parental lectures about your plans for 'the future'. So we begin with a depiction of confusion, angst and general frustration over a world trying to pigeonhole a free spirit. We might call him names, but Karan is a sweet chap and like most college students, he is clueless about the rest of his life.
The film starts off one day in the life of a nimrod (Hrithik Roshan). In effect, there is no punch, no zing, no mood in particular that you're left with after the movie. Not least of all by the strange hairstyles.Īkhtar tries to do too much with three (yes, three) hours of reel, and ends up diluting the punch (punch intended). We went to meet it at the gate, hopefully, and were disappointed. Part of the reason for Dil Chahta Hai's major success was that it started off as just another film. Earlier nobody knew Javed Akhtar had a son who could make movies. On the whole, taken all around, it's better if the world expects nothing from you.
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