Too much rona dhona mars the refreshingly different patriotic film Heroes by director Samir Karnik. The movie attempts to look at patriotism from a fresh perspective that’s void of any jingoistic flavour. It attempts to redefine the word as not just the willingness to fight the nation’s enemy, and even die doing so, but as a burning desire to do something for your country, something that would take the country forward.
The idea is well-intended. But alas, the way Samir Karnik takes to drive home the point is by repeatedly focusing on the suffering and inner strife of those people who have lost their loved ones to the war. Be it a Sikh widow ( Preity Zinta ) whose husband ( Salman Khan ) died at the front. Or be it a wheelchair-bound former pilot ( Sunny Deol ) who lost his younger brother ( Bobby Deol ) in the Kargil battle. Or a father ( Mithun Chakraborty ) unable to come to terms with the death of his soldier son ( Dino Morea Karnik focuses solely on the survivors living with the painful memories of the dead.
Movie Cast:
Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Sunny Deol, Mithun Chakraborty, Bobby Deol, Sohail Khan, Vatsal Seth, Dino Moreo, Riya Sen, Amrita Arora and Monish Behl;
Director: Samir Karnik