By: Somesh Vasishth

I agree with Milan Luthria in Toto, Let's Bring Our Heroes Home and let them do some sensible work in Bollywood.

Many of them are stalwarts in their chosen fields and given the right script, they can do wonders and escape such movies. Because immured in Deewaar they resort to all sort of measures that hardly make any sense to a sane minded person. Otherwise how would you justify the escape attempt made in the broad daylight?

Leading the brat pack is Major Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan), the POW of 1971 war, whose indomitable grit has resulted in 18 unsuccessful escape attempts but the grumpy guy is hardly relenting.

And so are his compatriots, blowing the Pak dominance into smithereens at every given chance.

It is only after ingenious Kaul junior, Gaurav's (Akshaye Khanna) arrival in Pakistan, Indians get to see the light of the day. No, he is not a govt. emissary on a mission. He has Kaul's blood running in veins and that is suffice to take on the whole Pak militia single-handedly.

Your heart would be choked with admiration for his gallantry, once you see his courage to fall in love with a Hindu girl, Radhika (Amrita Rao), in a hostile country. Milan often forgets to highlight the romantic angle in his films (watch Aankhen). No wonder, he opted to rope in Amrita this time, when some one must have reminded him of the same.

She has one full rain dance and a chase sequence in the film, what else do you need huh...

Gaurav isn't the only son of a gun. Aiding him is Khan (Sanjay Dutt), in a half-baked role, who just had the most dramatic change of heart.

Togeher they hatch fool(proof) plan to earn their freedom and rest is the history.

Amitabh Bachchan stands tall among the entire cast and I literally mean it. My heart cries out for Raghuveer Yadav and for the rest of the 'prisoners'. Is it the same Akhshaye, who did Dil Chahta Hai, I have my doubts. Despite being the most accomplished actors what pulls everybody down is the script.

Writers Sridhar Raghavan, producer Gaurang Doshi and director Milan Luthria just add to your woes and are loud in their efforts as music and background score by Aadesh Srivastava.

Bottomline: Unlike the earlier 'Deewaar', this one crumbles Bachchan himself.