Border
Border
| 13 June 1997 (USA)
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It's 1971, and 2000 members of the Pakistani Army—armed with tanks—are at war with just 120 men in a battalion of Indian soldiers based in the Longewala region of Rajasthan in India.

Reviews
Bharat Modi

This movie is a big joke including LOC Kargil. Five love stories scripted in a war movie. I say it is a mere fantasy. Moreover it seemed so funny when sunny deol emerged as a one man army with a grenade launcher and ruined the Pakistani party as if they were dummies waiting to get destroyed. This movie has lacked research though was surplus in emotions. Lakshya is the best war movie made in India. It really depicted the horror of war thanks to a good sound editing and camera work. And of course Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers have no comparison. These two movies show how much research and technical aspects like sound editing and cinematography are the important pillars or a good film. I don't when Indian directors will understand their importance

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Prasad Khare

If you have seen Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, and believe that a war movie has to transcend beyond phony emotions, then this movie will be a huge disappointment for you. Although war movies are rare in Indian movie industry, ‘Border’ simply dramatizes war taking it far away from reality, lacking basic research, leveraging no technical advancements in sound editing or cinematography that could have significantly enhanced the combat scenes. Heroism or leadership is not a style but is in a person’s character is one message that this movie fails to get across. So what is left is a 3 hours of songs, dances and make-believe camaraderie at the backdrop of a fancy war. Having said that, it still is a daring attempt in Bollywood to make a war movie, but this movie simply underlines how much movie making in India has still to evolve!

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the_big_G

It is a very good movie directed by J.P Dutta. Describes the reality of what happened in the 1971 INDO-PAK war & how the 120 odd Indian men from PUNJAB REGIMENT were able to defeat the strong Pakistan Army of around 2400 men along with one entire Tank Regiment. Yes, this is true and most of the characters shown in the movie are also true. The music is melodious and one will not regret after watching the movie. The dialogues are OK and could have been better but the action scenes in the movie are mind-blowing. BORDER is a must watch movie for every Indian and also to be proud of what the Indian army has done for them in the past.

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bollycritic

Anti-Pakistani and jingoistic drivel which works only in building patriotism in Indians. (I guess if Americans can be patriotic by putting down Russians and Arabs all the time, Indians should have the same rights.) Dutta knew he sank to offensive commercial levels and will next try and redeem himself with the cross-border love story, Refugee.Redeeming factors of Border are beautiful tunes thanks to Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar. Buy the music album and skip the film.

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