Star Cast: Aanaahad, Shraddha Das, Farooq Sheikh, Nafisa Ali, Shraddha Nigam, Saurabh Shukla, Aashish Vidyarthi, Mukesh Rishi, Kelly Dorjee, Nirmal Pandey, Sushant Singh, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Pramod Moutho, Jeeva
Director: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan
Lahore has some surprises in store for you.
Though it gives you such an impression, it needs to be made clear here that despite touching the all important issue of Indo-Pak relations, the story of Lahore is not on this subject only. The main subject of the film is kick-boxing, a sport, that has never been shown in a Bollywood movie before this film. The Indo-Pak factor in the film, which only helps in building up to the main story, has been shown without any kind of slogan shouting or Pakistan bashing.
This is a story that revolves around relations – relations between brothers and two nations, with a strong touch of emotions, which become even stronger in the end when the teams of the two nations indulge in a sporting contest.
The story of the film starts from a point where Indian Kick-boxing team has to be selected. Whereas the coach (Farooque Shaikh] wants the best players to be a part of the team, a minister [K. Jeeva] wants his favorite candidate to be chosen for the team. There are also two aspiring candidates for the kick-boxing team, (Sushant Singh], who wants to qualify on the basis of merit and [Kelly Dorji], who is over confident about his selection.
The film then turns to Kuala Lumpur, where a kick-boxing match is to take place between Dhirendra Singh [Sushant Singh] from India and Noor Mohammad [Mukesh Rishi] from Pakistan. But, just before the match a shocking incident takes place.
The match is rescheduled in Lahore, where, Noor Mohammad comes face to face with Virendra Singh [Aanaahad], who not only wants to restore the pride of the country but also settle some personal issues.
The film unveils in such a way that you can figure out what’s going to happen at the climax. The film has two back to back tracks in the beginning of the film itself, one about relations between two brothers and the other between two nations, both of which get repeated in the first hour of the film.
The kick-boxing sequences of the film look good. The interval point of the film is very interesting and makes you look forward to the second half.
But, the story fails to catch your attention after the interval because you can almost guess, where the film is headed towards. Couple of concepts in the film look quite unconvincing and difficult to understand. It is difficult to figure out how a person, who is a trained cricketer, gets chosen for a kick-boxing team.
The climax of the film has been picturized beautifully as all the loose ends of the story fall in place.
The fact that the film has been applauded in many national and international film festivals, goes to show that it is a good film. Debutant director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan has chosen a difficult storyline for a film but has executed it with complete perfection. The work of the production designer Kesto Mondaj and cinematographer Neelabh Kaul are outstanding. The same can be said about action coordinator Tony Leung Siu Hung, whose action sequences are worth watching. The music of M M Kreem and background score of Wayne Sharpe is quite ordinary.
Even though all actors in the film have done a good job, it is Farooque Shaikh who stands out with his performance. He has been supported well by Saurabh Shukla, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sushant Singh, Shraddha Nigam, Mukesh Rishi, Shraddha Das, Nafisa Ali, Ashish Vidyarthi, K. Jeeva, Kelly Dorji, Nirmal Pandey and Aanaahad.
Lahore is good on an overall basis and needs to be watched not only for its storyline but also for the kick-boxing.
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