Lakshya (2004)

Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother, who run the family business. All Karan does is have fun with his buddies and ... See full summary »

Director:

Farhan Akhtar

Writers:

Javed Akhtar (dialogue), Javed Akhtar (screenplay),

Stars:

Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta

3 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Col. Sunil Damle
Hrithik Roshan	...	Karan Shergill
Preity Zinta	...	Romila 'Romi' Dutta
Sharad S. Kapoor	...	Maj. Binod Sengupta
Om Puri	...	Subedar Maj. Pritam Singh
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Maj. Kaushal Verma (as Raj Zutshi)
Sushant Singh	...	Capt. Jalal Akbar
Prashant Chianani	...	Lt. Vishal Srivastav (as Prashant Chainani)
Shakeel Khan
Ranvir Shorey	...	(as Ranvir Shoerey)
Ajai Jose
Aditya Srivastava	...	Pradeep
Abir Goswami	...	Capt. Sudhir Mishra (AMC)
Parmeet Sethi	...	Maj. Shahbaaz Humdani (Pakistan)
Boman Irani	...	Mr. Shergill

Storyline

Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother, who run the family business. All Karan does is have fun with his buddies and romance a woman named Romi. When he watches an action movie, he and his friends decide to enlist in the army, but the course proves to be too much of a bother and he abandons it half way, thus making his lose respect on the home front. Romi also stops respecting him. Now Karan decides that he must re-join the army and show to his family and Romi that he too is focused about path he has to take in this lifetime. But will he be resilient enough to carry out this task?

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Plot Keywords:

army | military academy | kashmir | pakistan | terrorist | 

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Taglines:

It took him 24 years and 18000 feet to find himself

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Genres:

War | Drama | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [in] (English)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

18 June 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mut zur Entscheidung - Lakshya

Filming Locations:

Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 300,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$139,000 (USA) (25 June 2004)

Gross:

$752,344 (USA) (23 July 2004)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Excel Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

186 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital Dolby SR

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film portrays a fictionalized account of the actions of 3 Punjab. As the film does show, 3 Punjab was based in Kargil and was among the first of the units to detect the Pakistani intrusion across the Line of Control. However, they did not actually capture "Peak 5179" or any other peak. In actuality, much of the on-screen unit's actions are inspired by various other battalions' actions during the conflict. As the film credits the story as fiction based on fact and is largely truthful to the overall situation, the Army officially endorsed and approved the film.

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Goofs

During preparation for the initial attack, teams are asked to fire randomly to provoke response fire and Col. Damle with Subedar are noting positions on map. Subedar points out presence of 2 heavy guns, but no such information is actually conveyed by the teams engaging enemy. There is only one mention of heavy guns in the entire scene, so it would not have been possible for Subedar to know of presence of more than 1 gun.

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Quotes

Col. Sunil Damle: Karan, do you think this frame is properly aligned?
Karan Shergill: [confused] Sir?
Col. Sunil Damle: This frame, do you think it is properly aligned?
Karan Shergill: [adjusts frame a little] Now it looks proper sir.
Col. Sunil Damle: Good. Things don't look OK until they are perfect. Lt. Karan Shergill, welcome to 3 Punjab.

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Connections

References The Public Enemy (1931)

User Reviews

Lakshya is absolutely excellent: A Class Product from India!

Absolutely fantastic. Hrithik Roshan is brilliantly understated in this coming-of-age epic. World-class production values and high father-son, soldier-soldier emotional content that's not forced (Like the overdone mess LOC). The war scenes were brilliant. People must remember, this film was NOT BASED ON KARGIL. Akhtar took the war as a backdrop to show Karan's transformation - his path from irresponsible and misguided childhood to manhood. This film was quite an experience. I just can't understand how this flopped (If grossing 22 Crores in India can be termed "poor box office performance"). Man, my countrymen really take the cake. Garbage like Veer Zaara (Stunning locales, beautiful people, and amazing music, but overall POOR in terms of content) and Kal Ho Na Ho are lapped up by audiences, but Yuva and Lakshya are rejected completely. After Shah Rukh Khan murdered Asoka with his obsessive megalomania and J.P. Dutta took jingoism to an all-time low in LOC, Lakshya is an epic motion picture. Somewhat muted and subtle, but never EVER slight. Hrithik's a star.