Havaldar Balkar Singh, Captain Dhananjay Shergill and Lieutenant Sahil Naqvi are amongst numerous fatalities on India's side in the 1999 Kargil war against Pakistan. All 3 men had written their last letters to Kuljeet Kaur, Squadron Leader Vikram Singh, and Dr. Naqvi respectively. These letters were located 3 years later by IBN Reporter, Avinash Sarin, who entrusts them to two Indore-based slackers, Ali Shah and Sameer Suri, and asks them to deliver them to Chandigarh, Manali, and Leh respectively. Ali and Sameer set out to film this journey in order to get a graduation degree so that they can re-locate to America as well as televise it widely in order to convince the youth not to join any of India's armed forces.
Acting
Salman in dual role somehow makes sense in 2008.
Direction
Samir Karnik's 'comedy then trauma' whiplash technique.
Director
Samir Karnik
Salman Khan
Balkar Singh/Jassvinder Singh
Preity Zinta
Kuljeet Kaur
Sunny Deol
Vikram Shergill
Bobby Deol
Dhananjay "DJ" Shergill
Mithun Chakraborty
Dr. Naqvi
Sohail Khan
Sameer Suri a.k.a. Sammy a.k.a. Saand
Vatsal Sheth
Ali Shah a.k.a. Nawab Saab
Dino Morea
Sahil Naqvi
Amrita Arora
Piya
Riya Sen
Shivani
Mohnish Behl
Akash Sarin
Hrishitaa Bhatt
Saloni
Vivek Shauq
Piya's father
Tinnu Anand
Headmaster
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak 'India Shining' era, the film captures Bollywood's post-Kargil obsession with soldier martyrdom as national identity.
The real IBN reporter angle was added to ground the fictional story, making this one of rare Bollywood films acknowledging actual news media — though 'Avinash Sarin' is entirely fabricated.
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