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Flashback 2007: Top 20 Bollywood Movies

# 12 – APNE

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol, Amitabh Bachchan, Lara Dutta, Shruti Seth
Director: Shaad Ali
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Lyrics: Gulzar

When it comes to Dharam paaji, all we can expect is some ‘rona dhona’ and some family gems spilled onto your screen. With sons in tow, legendary actor Dharmendra made a comeback of sorts at the big screen with his home production directed by family friend Anil Sharma of Gadar fame. Apne also starring the likes of Shilpa Shetty, Kiron Kher and Katrina Kaif, managed to get a good opening especially in the Northern India. The film was a huge success in the state of Punjab and was above average elsewhere. Overall, the film was a semi-hit and earned Rs. 27.32 Crores in over 10 weeks showing at over 500 screens in the domestic circuit alone.

Synopsis: Baldev Singh Choudhary (Dharmendra) won a silver medal in the Olympics and made India proud. His only dream was to make history by becoming India’s first World Heavy weight Champion. But sometimes dreams shatter before they can be realized and make the heart bleed forever, the same fate awaited Baldev. When in the US fighting for the World Heavy Weight Championship, the betting mafia conspired against him and got doping charges leveled against him, which got him banned from Boxing. He wanted to get rid of this stigma and pain by training his elder son Angad (Sunny Deol) in the sport of boxing and make him a World Heavyweight Champion and create history which eluded him, but, Angad had other dreams, aspirations, commitments. Karan (Bobby Deol), the younger son, a musician at par, inspite of wanting to fulfill his father’s dreams was helpless. But with the strength of mind and skilled training Karan fulfills his father’s dreams by fighting against all odds.

The film keeps you fixed to your seats as the emotional journey takes you into the lives of a scandal-struck athlete’s family. The well-scripted storyline lacks a final punch of good editing and twists that makes the film, predictable and monotonous at places. The film’s above average fair at the box office shows that emotional family dramas still need a lot of touch-up work to be done. Nevertheless, hats off to Dharma paaji’s histrionics. What say?

Popularity: 71% [?]

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