Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Amisha Patel, Jaya Prada, Manoj Pahwa, Gulshan Grover, Master Yash Pathak
and Asrani
Director: Anubhav Sinha
A man who brings a child in this world, holds him while he takes his first steps and cries the first
time his son smiles at him, can't just can't let that son slip away between his fingers into a dark
and deadly silence.
The man, Ravi (Sanjay Dutt), was only a factory worker. He was married to a middle-class homely
girl, Sarita (Amisha Patel). He was only earning 5 thousand rupees a month. He was only another
man in the crowd. But what the system didn't factor was that he was a father.
It's not everyday that a healthy eight year old collapses while playing cricket. It's not everyday that
a healthy eight year old has a hole in his heart and needs a heart transplant. It's not everyday that
a factory worker has to raise lakhs of rupees to save his son's life. But this was not everyday.
And this was not an everyday father. It was an extra-ordinary day and an ordinary man
rose to become an extra-ordinary father.
He tried to do it the right way. Asking for help from his office, the insurance company, the loan
sharks. But no one responded to his pleas while his son was not responding to medication. This
desperate father kept a stone on his heart, a gun in his hand and grabbed the system by its horns
to get his son a new heart.
He held up the hospital waiting room. And laid out his conditions. The police did their best to talk
him out of it. When talk didn't work, their dirty minds did. But this father was determined.
His wife, one doctor, one cop and million of ordinary people joined his battle. The one question the
nation's common folk was asking' "Could this happen to us?" It had happened to Ravi, and Ravi was
not asking question, he was giving answer.
But it was far more complicated than it oppeared. Can a father beat the system with a gun and a
heart full of courage? And once the politicians got involved, mess was bound to follow. And the
media's passion for mess and sensational software added to the dirty game.
He was only a father who wanted a heart for his dying son. He was a simple man with a simple
request. But when they turned him down, everything suddenly changed. He made his decision,
looked up at the sky. Maybe he heard... God answer his prayer.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 13:12 IST