Deewaar (2004 film)
| Deewaar दीवार |
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| Directed by | Milan Luthria |
| Produced by | Gaurang Doshi |
| Written by | Milan Luthria (dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | Shridhar Raghavan Gaurang Doshi Milan Luthria |
| Story by |
S. Gopala Reddy Milan Luthria |
| Starring |
Amitabh Bachchan Sanjay Dutt Akshaye Khanna Amrita Rao Aditya Srivastava |
| Music by | Aadesh Shrivastav |
| Cinematography | Nirmal Jani |
| Edited by | Hozefa Lokhandwala |
| Distributed by | V. R. Pictures |
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161 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹375 million (US$5.6 million) |
Deewaar - Let's Bring Our Heroes Home is a 2004 Bollywood, war film directed by Milan Luthria, produced by Gaurang Doshi and written by S. Gopala Reddy. The film is inspired from the 1963 movie The Great Escape.The film under performed at the box office and was given an average verdict at the box office.
Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a prisoner of war who was captured along with other 50 soldiers by Pakistani army in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan.
33 years later (in 2004) Major Kaul's son Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna) decides to go on a rescue mission to Pakistan and bring back his father who he has not seen since he was a child. Gourav came to know that his father and other prisoners of war are confined in an alienited jail. The jaior Sohail khan ( Kay Kay Menon) is ruthless and always try to finish his all prisoners. Khan (Sanjay Dutt) who had successfully escaped from the same prison saved by Gourav incedentally. Consequently Khan is helping him on his mission. They took sheltar in the House of Jabbar whose daughter became emotionally involved with Gourav. Khan and Gourav steal the underground map of the jail from ISI headquarter and plan to get the prisoners out. They finally succeed and get the prisoners into India, killing all the Pakistani officers including the jailor.
Music for the film was composed by Aadesh Shrivastav. The lyrics were written by Nusrat Badr.
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