Border (1997)

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.

Fmovies: 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

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.

Border fmovies. 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.

Border is no Saving Private Ryan or behind enemy lines. It's an unpretentious patriotic film, which is great to watch on 15 Aug or 26 Jan. It's heavily dramatised with punching dialogue and touching songs. The characters are varied and likable, and acting doesn't come much better, though Sunny Deol is over the top as usual.

It's sad to see this movie trashed by some Pakistani viewers, who are clearly not happy to see a movie made about their war failures. Maybe they should make movies depicting their own point of view, rather than watching pirated copies of Indian movies, and then complaining about them.

A brilliant film, Definitely a milestone in Indian Film Industry...... Very well directed in actual locales ..... Brilliant acting by Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty and newcomer Akshaye Khanna.