<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br />After reading over half a dozen glowing appraisals of J P Dutta''s film, I decided to check it out. But I came back with questions that beg to be answered. <br /><br />Dear Mr Dutta, <br /><br />If you could hire almost all of Bollywood''s stars, how come you couldn''t find a good editor? At over four hours, the movie simply sucks.
A shorter version would also suck, probably less. <br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="59.4%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="javascript:popUp("1;/photopop/msid-369032,type-0.cms"1;)"> <#img border=0 align=left src="/thumb.cms?msid=369032&=100&width=100" hspace=12></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Click to enlarge</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">How come soldiers only have girlfriends/wives in the family? There are just two shots of a soldier''s child and parents, as opposed to nonsensical lengthy songs for heroines. </span><br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -6"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="34.7%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">RELATED LINKS</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" fbfbfb=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/377362.cms" target="_blank">Censor clears LoC without cuts</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/383994.cms" target="_blank">I don''t regret making LOC: Dutta</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/386147.cms" target="_blank">I saw a Kargil ghost: Abhishek</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/364551.cms?&fright=1&right=1" target="_blank">Wallpapers</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/364295.cms?&fright=1&right=1" target="_blank">Who''s Who...</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://lockargil.indiatimes.com/" target="_blank">Official website</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">How come middle-class girls only wear chiffon </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">salwar-kameezes</span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""> with their heads always covered with </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">dupatta</span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">? </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Why are the women always shown crying or blushing? "Weepy wimps," as TOI.com readers rightly point out. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">How come the junior artists (and not your stars) evoke feelings, if at all, in your film? </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Why is Anuj Nayyar referred to as Anuj Nair throughout? </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">If all action sequences were to be repetitive, why did the film stretch to four hours?</span><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br /><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -6"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="34.7%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">RELATED LINKS</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" fbfbfb=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/377362.cms" target="_blank">Censor clears LoC without cuts</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/383994.cms" target="_blank">I don''t regret making LOC: Dutta</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/386147.cms" target="_blank">I saw a Kargil ghost: Abhishek</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/364551.cms?&fright=1&right=1" target="_blank">Wallpapers</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/364295.cms?&fright=1&right=1" target="_blank">Who''s Who...</a><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""></span><br /><span style="" font-size:=""> </span><a href="http://lockargil.indiatimes.com/" target="_blank">Official website</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Why do Pakistani fighters watch as idiots as Indian soldiers hurl grenades at them instead of fighting? <br /><br />By combining documentary-type footage with B-grade Bollywood emotion, what were you trying to make? <br /><br />The list is endless. But I also have questions for the media who have praised <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">LoC</span> to the skies. <br /><br />Dear reviewers, <br /><br />When you rush to compare a C-grade film like this with <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Saving Private Ryan</span>, why isn''t there any mention of the only other Indian film (<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dhoop</span>) to touch upon Kargil? <br /><br />When you wrote about how the armymen loved the film, why didn''t you question their lack of enthusiasm for the brilliant and sensitive <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dhoop</span>, which shows the army in poor light? <br /><br />Why haven''t you questioned the army''s help with men and resources to Dutta for this nonsense? <br /><br /><formid=367815><br /><br /></formid=367815></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><br />Why do you equate slamming a patriotic film with slamming a noble cause - the Kargil war? <br /><br />Why do you write reviews as patriotic Indians and not as film reviewers? <br /><br />Why do you buy all the hype filmmakers dole out to sell their films? What good are the hyped 200 notebooks of research worth, if the director gets the names wrong? <br /><br />And finally, who are you afraid to offend - J P Dutta (who may not give you sound bytes the next time) or popular sentiment (which was positive about Dutta''s stated intentions which now lie belied)? <br /><br />What convinces you Dutta made the film out of real concern for Indian armymen, not out of commercial motive? <br /><br />Our Kargil soldiers deserve better than this pseudo-tribute, which is out there to make money by playing on popular sentiment. <br /><br />Thank you TOI.com, for calling a sham a sham. <br /><br />Yours truly,<br />Dhrubajyoti Dutta <br /><br /><formid=367815></formid=367815></div> </div>
