LAKSHYA-THE MOVIE

So here begins another movie review taking you through all behind the scenes camaraderie between the actors and the difficulties faced by the crew in shooting the movie. Well if that has fascinated you and you are eager to skip this line only to know some trivia, please go to some other blog because this is exactly what this post is not about. Instead this will be totally personal experiences, take it or leave it, I m tempted to say. To begin I should say that when I first saw the movie from a pirated CD in my hostel on my computer, I dismissed it as a below average mediocre war-movie. I was discouraged by Farhan Akhtar’s next attempt after Dil Chahta Hai. But it’s quite late before I realized what this movie was really about. To others who are still dubbing it as an average war movie have missed the essence of the title of the movie. It’s about disillusion in life, inferiority complex about self identity and about the importance of having a Lakshya (or let’s not lower the importance of the word by calling it goal or ambition) in life without which you can’t justify your identity.

Well, talking of some of the normal features of the movie, it has one of the most inspirational songs I have ever heard, haan yahi rasta hai tera. And again the song main aisa kyun hun is always the basic question we ask to ourselves only and none of the songs are out of the place in the whole story. The relationship of a father and son in a family has never been portrayed better in any other movie. Karan’s family is a typical family which has dreamt of an Udesh kind of future for their son and always judge with him as benchmark. Then his father was one of those who had a Lakshya in his life of restoring the family pride and honour and he reminds Karan of that. The scene in nearly the mid of the second half when Karan calls up his father is one of the most moving scenes I have found. Something that I find has been missing in most of the movies, sometimes even to declare them as a piece of fiction only.
Farhan has the ability to pump life in even cameo characters whose existence is barely acknowledged in most of the Indian movies. He hasn’t left the whole Lakshya thing as a one-point-focus matter. Karan took becoming a lieutenant in the army as a challenge not because of Romi only (which shattered the remaining confidence in him) but because his parents had no confidence in him and everything in the life happened in a conspiring way to boo him down. That’s something close to reality. The war sequences are average but the rock climbing sequence is really awesome. The movie has done real justice to the title and really depicted well the dramatic and sudden change in some person to get control of the life back something which we are most of the time not able to do.