Lakshya: Mission Accomplished

I finally got to watch Lakshya yesterday! All in all, an ok film. Farhan Alhtar shows flashes of brilliance there, but the script is bogged down by the upper middle class attitude (whatever that means). I mean, Hritik is supposed to be clueless about life, but he comes of more life he is a wide eyed doe, what with the expression on his face. He is more like someone who does not know anything about life, rather than one who does not know what to do with it. Preity Zinta's character is too sparse to be made anything of. Considering the kind of girl that she is, the protesting, standing up for what's right kind of a girl, how can she even take an interest in a guy like Hritik? And whats more, in her effort to seem the serious kind, she comes off as a bore. The chemistry between the two is completely lacking. One is Bambi, and the other is dpoey. You decide who is who.
The IMA sequence, thuogh small is ok. I however missed out the part where he runs away from IMA, and his GF/Matron leaves him. Bad VCD.
The war sequences are good. They are quite well executed. But Preity's character again disappoints. She is meant to be a war reporter, and the only time she is shown reporting is by the side of a Bofors gun. But then, I may have missed out some portions of this move, as it seemed edited and the Pakistani portions were cut. The best portion of hte movies is defiantely the mountain climging partion. Did Hritik really do all the climbing? It was fantstic!!
Also, the other paisa vasool elements were the song 'Main Aisa Kyon Hoon'. Hritik was fantastic in the song. I saw it more than seven times in a row!! And also, the character of Boman Irani in the movies was great. Thuogh it was small, it was powerful. After Main Hoon Na, I half expected him to put up a goofy act. But his detached portryal of a dad was a fine touch in the movie. He is not supposed to be a major influence in Hritik's life, and he showed it amply. Espically moving was the part where Hritik calls him up to talk to him. Also touching was the part where the engagedd solder puts the engagement ring in an envelope before a suicide mission. It was more moving than when he bids farewell to Preity.
a special note about Om Puri, though he has only a few scenes, he manages to convince us that he is someone who has seen action. The look in his eyes, they way he keeps smiling at eveyone, they convinced me. And lets just pretend the Amitabh was not in the film.
So, in the final verdict, I would give a movie six out of ten. While Taran Adarsh in TOI says that it is a flop, rediff says that it is a semi-hit. I hope that it is a hit. forgodssake, even Girlfriend managed to recover its money and be declared a hit!! This movie is surely more deserving to be a hit than that movie.