Border (1997)

Sorry, this movie sucks

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

All characters are good and story was awesome and specially sunny deol and sunil shetty both of them outstanding on this film

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

First off, I'm neither Indian nor Pakistani, so I didn't come come to this movie with any feelings about the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war one way or the other. In fact, although I'm fairly well acquainted with the war, I had never heard of this movie, or anyone in it, before I saw it listed on Netflix, and based on the description, I thought it might be interesting so I rented it. Bad move on my part.To begin with, for a film that obviously cost quite a bit of money, it's very sloppily made. It was a bit of a puzzlement when a character starts speaking in English and in the middle of the sentence switches to Hindi, or vice-versa. Don't know why the filmmakers did that, but it's very annoying (as were the completely bizarre musical numbers that were inserted into the middle of the film. Seeing squads of Indian soldiers singing and dancing in the middle of the desert on the eve of war was disconcerting, to say the least. Also, although the film's Hindi dialogue was subtitled in English, the lyrics to the songs weren't. Strange.). The acting for the most part was more reminiscent of an overblown 1909 D.W. Griffith melodrama than a modern (1997) war picture, full of grand theatrical gesturing and overheated, pretentious and ultimately boring stretches of dialogue. The "action" scenes were, to put it mildly, pathetic. I realize this was based on an actual incident, but it must have been VERY "loosely" based because the action consists of wildly improbable and hysterically phony heroics by the Indian soldiers that make the laughable Chuck Norris "Missing in Action" travesties look like documentaries, sneering villainy by the Pakistani side (I almost expected to see the head Pakistani officer twirling his mustache and tying a young girl to the railroad tracks while cackling "Nyah ah ah!") and dialogue that Ed Wood would be too embarrassed to write (one soldier, explaining his mother's blindness, says, "She went blind from the tears she had shed" for her deceased war-hero husband). The special effects are laughable--tanks that get "blown up" are obviously wooden mock-ups, as you can see flaming pieces of wood showering the ground after the explosions and what's left of the tank's "hulk" shattering when it hits the ground, and when some soldiers are "shot" you can see the square outline of the blocks the exploding squibs are attached to beneath their uniforms. One Indian soldier who finds himself in the no-man's-land between the Indian trenches and the attacking Pakistanis suddenly charges the enemy line and is promptly shot about 20 times for his trouble, but amazingly is rescued and brought back to the Indian positions, where he holds on for awhile before finally expiring (after, of course, giving a patriotic speech), while Pakistani soldiers who get shot only once die immediately. However, there's a scene where the Pakistanis overrun the Indian trenches and some very brutal hand-to-hand fighting occurs, and that is reasonably well done--much better than the rest of the "action" was.All in all, it's a clumsy and badly written (and edited, and acted, and scored) mixture of Hindu nationalism, Indian jingoism, stupidly phony heroics and wildly out-of-place musical numbers. If this is an example of the best that "Bollywood" has to offer, as some reviewers here seem to think, then thanks but no thanks.

Superb.I really have pity on some of reviewers who brand movie chauvinistic.How else a war movie is supposed to be? Especially when those whom you are fighting were your own countrymen till a few years back. A pretty good depiction of Indian Army and air force and relationship between different soldiers and their dilemma. Movie also touches on pathetic condition of Indian soldiers financially in those days which is no longer a case.Most haunting scene of Movie is Rakhi wandering in tank ridden field with Serra for his son.This single scene depicts the futility of war. But there should have been paid more attention to details of war e.g. even real life soldiers have said that they were not that outnumbered and main factor was air force not the army but it is true that they did hold a whole battalion with the help of anti tank mines.