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Sequel of Gadar will get Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel together once again
By Dinesh Kamath
Eighteen years on, the makers are
set to come up with a sequel to Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel's film, Gadar.
It was in 2001 that Gadar: Ek Prem
Katha, co-starring Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel, Utkarsh Sharma, Lillette Dubey
and late actor Amrish Puri, released. Set in the time of the Partition of
India, the film, directed by Anil Sharma, turned out to be one of the biggest
commercial blockbusters of its time minting around Rs 256 crore after its
release. 18 years on, the makers are reportedly set to helm a sequel to the film.
The makers are set to take Tara
Singh (Sunny), Sakeena Ali Singh (Ameesha Patel) and their son Charanjeet's
story forward. The story will move ahead with the India-Pakistan angle. The
makers have had a word with Sunny Deol on the same and that they are eyeing on
the same cast this time too.
On the film front now, Ameesha was
last seen in Bhaiaji Superhit alongside Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Arshad Warsi
and Shreyas Talpade while Sunny was recently seen in Behzad Khambata's
directorial, Blank. The film starred Karan Kapadia, Karanvir Sharma and Ishita
Dutta in key roles. Utkarsh, the child artist in Gadar, recently made his
full-fledged Bollywood debut with his father Anil Sharma's directorial, Genius.
The film co-starred Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Mithun Chakraborty in key roles
The film ‘Gadar’, directed by Anil
Sharma, ranks among the top three Indian films in all-time highest footfalls.
According to sources, it had 17 crore footfalls and had earned Rs 256 crore
upon its release in 2001. This success made the makers work on Gadar sequel
since 15 years.
Also, work has begun on the sequel
of Sunny and Anil's another hit film Apne (2009) that starred the three Deols -
Sunny, Bobby and Dharmendra.
Now a few words about Gadar: Ek
Prem Katha (English: Revolt: A Love Story). This movie is a 2001 Indian period
action drama film starring Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel and Amrish Puri, set in the
time of the Partition of India in 1947. Made in ₹185 million (US$2.7 million),
Gadar grossed more than ₹1.33 billion (US$19 million) during its initial
theatrical run with a distributor share of ₹546 million (US$7.9 million) and
after its theatrical run, was commercially one of the most successful movies in
India when it was released. Gadar: Ek Prem Katha is the second most watched
Hindi film in India as it recorded more than 50 million footfalls in India. The
shy role of Sunny Deol was admired and led to the Filmfare nomination for the
best actor. According to Box office India, its adjusted gross is ₹4.86 billion
(US$70 million) as per 2017 ticket sales. The story of this film is loosely
based on the life of Boota Singh. The film was released on the same day as
Aamir Khan's Lagaan. Amisha Patel was chosen out 500 people who came for
audition and she is nominated for Filmfare Best Actress Award and won Filmfare
Special Performance Award.
The film had an interesting plot. During
the Partition of India, the film tells the story of a truck driver, Tara Singh
(Sunny Deol), a Sikh, who falls in love with a Muslim girl, Sakina (Amisha
Patel), belonging to an aristocratic family.
The story begins with Sikhs and
Hindus being attacked by Muslims in Pakistan when trying to migrate to India by
train from the railway station in west Punjab. In response, Sikhs and Hindus
react by killing Muslims migrating to Pakistan from India. During the
Hindu-Muslim riots that erupted soon after the Partition, Tara recognizes
Sakina from the little Taj Mahal antique in her hands. He then saves and
protects her from a murderous mob chasing her because she failed to get onto
the train with her family members after being lost in the crowd. As the mob
attempts to brutally rape and murder her, Tara Singh defends Sakina and
disguises her as a Sikh to protect her.
While driving back to Tara's house,
the story has a major flashback showing the relationship between Tara and
Sakina during her college days, but the real ambition of Tara is to become a
singer. Some girls in college who are friends of Sakina, fool Tara into
thinking that they have got him a spot on a music show in return for a favour.
Tara performs badly in front of the music teacher, who is portrayed by Sakina
(Amisha Patel). His friend then gives him tablets that help him prove his
singing skills. Soon after it is shown that Sakina is not the real music
teacher, which saddens him. When performing on the music show Sakina announces
that she will not do her act, instead giving Tara a chance to sing despite
being against the will of the seniors at the college. Tara impresses everybody
with his talent. While returning home after completing the final year, Sakina
is given a goodbye present by Tara.
Later, Tara's parents, Jaideep
Singh and two sisters are seen weeping in Pakistan as they did not return to
Amritsar before the partition. Tara's Muslim friend comes to meet the family
and requests them to stay with him as parents love both friends equally. But
Tara's parents and sisters do not agree, they reluctantly decide to leave.
While leaving for the station, Tara's father and mother give their daughters
two paper pouches. The bewildered twins ask them what that is. Father says that
the sisters should not hesitate to give up their lives lest any Muslim attacks
and shatters them and their dignity. Then the family reaches the station and
boards the train. After some time, a large mob attacks the whole train. People
run pell-mell to save themselves but they are killed gruesomely. Tara's sister
hastily tries to eat the poison but two men throw it from their hands and kill
them after a cruel physical abuse.
Subsequently, and back in the
present, Sakina starts living in Tara's house and their respect culminates into
love. One day, Tara's aunt comes to meet him and taking pity on the orphaned
Sakina, asks her boy to transport her to the Muslim refugee camps. Tara and
Sakina head out towards the camp but are again attacked by a violent mob. Tara
again saves his Madamji. Slowly Sakina and Tara Singh fall in love, get married
and become parents of a baby boy named Jeet. Their life seems like a bed of
roses, until Sakina sees an old newspaper during Holi festival that has a
photograph of her father, Ashraf Ali (Amrish Puri), whom she believes had been
killed during the riots during the Partition.
Her father is now the mayor of
Lahore. When Sakina calls him from the Pakistani Embassy in Delhi, he arranges
to fly her to Lahore. However, Tara and their son, who are supposed to
accompany her to Lahore, are told at the last minute that their visa
formalities have not been completed, which compels them to stay in India.
Sakina leaves with a heavy heart. She meets her whole clan back in Lahore.
Everyone is thrilled to see her. Later, when she wants to return to India, her
mom tells her that she was about to be disowned as people were babbling about
her staying with an Indian Jat. Her father too relates all of their hardships
during the journey from India to Pakistan. Sakina is hurt and broken-hearted.
But she starts protesting when her parents' friends start using her
post-marriage life as a publicity stunt and depict her in-laws badly in order
to extract more sympathy and votes from the Pakistani population. Later she is
introduced to a very handsome guy who hails from a very influential rich
family. She is told that she would be marrying him. But Sakina refuses and even
asks the Qazi Saheb to leave her alone, saying second marriage during the
husband's lifetime is a sin. Her parents and Mamaji are very angry with that.
They forcibly lock her up in a room inside the palace.
Tara and his son, accompanied by a
friend, enter Pakistan illegally at the border. Tara tries to take shelter in
his old friend's house but hearing his wife fight about that, leaves the place
with his son Jeet and his assistant. There they find out that Sakina is getting
married and reach her before the marriage takes place. Mother and son reunite happily.
A fight is about to break out when the priest stops them, as this can end up
harming Sakina's father's career in politics. Ashraf Ali agrees for their
marriage under two conditions: they should live in Pakistan and Tara should
convert to Islam. But, after the second attack occurs, little Jeet is badly
injured. These conditions are accepted by Tara in public the next day which was
against Ashraf Ali's plans. He makes Tara insult his country to prove that he
is a true Pakistani, which enrages him and this makes him kill a member of the
mob that was hired by Ashraf to kill him. Tara, Sakina, their son, and a friend
manage to escape. Tara and Sakina escape from the city and hide in a poor
couple's cottage near the border forest. But the man's wife is a greedy woman
who simply wants all of Sakina's ornaments for herself. She refuses to listen
to her husband and tries to throw Sakina out from the house when she does not
get more jewellery from her.
But after Sakina leaves with Jeet
and Tara, Ashraf Ali reaches the cottage and relocates his daughter.
After a long period of turmoil they
catch a cotton mill train bound for India. Ashraf Ali finds out, and he takes
some men to stop them. In the ensuing fight Sakina gets shot by her own father.
In the hospital Sakina has lapsed into a coma. She gains consciousness after
having a nightmare. The movie ends with Ashraf Ali accepting Tara as his
son-in-law and they return to India.
If Gadar had such a fantastic plot,
one can be rest assured that its sequel too will be very interesting to watch.
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