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SYNOPSIS - MAIN HOON NA
("I'M HERE NOW")
- The movie opens in a TV
studio preparing to film a show. A
man who is obviously the host of the show (NASSAR
ABDULLA) is conferring with
some staffers. One of the staffers informs the host that the
General is here.
Brigadier General Shekhar Sharma
(NASEERUDDIN SHAH) walks in
with a group of soldiers and introduces himself to the host.
He says he’s in
charge of security now. He asks the host if he has any
problem with that, and
the host responds that he doesn’t. General Sharma deploys
his troops to various
positions in the studio to stand guard.
- The show, “People’s Voice,”
begins filming. The subject of
the day is “Project Milaap (peace),” and whether or not it’s a
good idea. The
guest is General Amar Singh Bakshi (KABIR BEDI). Project
Milaap, he tells the
viewers, is a program to release fifty Pakistani prisoners
who inadvertently
wandered over the border into India. Even though they were
just lost villagers
many of them were detained for years. Footage shows on
the monitors of sad-eyed
rural-looking people in tattered clothing. The host asks
General Bakshi if he’s
sure the project is such a good idea if Pakistan might not
reciprocate. General
Bakshi replies that he’s sure that Pakistan will reciprocate
and someone has to
make the first move. The host asks if he's concerned about terrorists who work against Pakistan, specifically Raghavan.
- Up on the balcony, one of the
soldiers standing guard is
shot from behind. His body falls into the audience below,
whose members scatter
screaming.
Masked gunmen run into the
studio and start a firefight with the soldiers. One of the
masked men waves a
gun in General Bakshi’s face, introducing himself as Raghavan. They argue about Project
Milaap’s merits.
Meanwhile, a man we see only in silhouette tells General
Sharma that he’s going
in without backup.
- Back in the studio, the
masked gunman tells General Bakshi
that he knows General Bakshi has a daughter and gives him
a manila envelope.
General Bakshi pulls out photos and then glares at the
gunman, who acts as
though he’s going to shoot the general. Major
Ram Sharma (SHAH RUKH KHAN) crashes in through the
skylights and starts
shooting the bad guys. General Sharma joins him, but gets
shot. Ram sees General
Sharma get shot but chases the masked gunman who was
arguing with General
Bakshi. He almost gets shot too but the other man is out of
bullets. The masked man
gets away, and Ram goes back to the studio, where General
Sharma gasps that he
wants his son. Ram runs to his side.
- At General Sharma’s funeral,
Ram watches his father receive
posthumous military honors. Flashback. As paramedics and,
later, doctors work
to save the general’s life, he tells Ram that he is not the general's only
son. He
actually has an estranged wife and another, younger son
named Lakshman. He
wants their forgiveness and for both sons to perform his last
rites together,
or else he fears he won’t find peace after death. Ram
promises to find his
half-brother and the general’s wife.
- Back in the present, Ram
returns home from the funeral. He
asks the family servant where the general’s wife and son
live. He says the
servant must know where they are. Flashback. Nine-year-old
Ram is standing before
younger General Sharma. General Sharma reads a letter
from Ram’s mother. She is
dying and has sent Ram to his father because he has no one
else to turn to.
Later that night, Mrs. Sharma (KIRRON KHER) packs up her
suitcase while the two
adults argue. He tells her his affair was just a mistake. She
refuses to
listen, takes their baby son, and leaves, while Ram and the
family servant sit
on the swing outside. When General Sharma comes outside
and sits on the front
porch, Ram walks up to his father and sits next to him.
- In the present, General
Bakshi and Ram sit in the general’s
office. The general tells Ram that he wants Ram to go to
Darjeeling to watch
after his daughter, Sanjana at her college. He says that they’re not in
contact, because he
didn’t love her as a child since she wasn’t a boy. Ram asks if
they can assign
a bodyguard to Sanjana, but the general tells him she’ll run
away; she’s done
so before. Ram tells the general he can’t accept the
assignment just now, but
the general says that Ram’s father told him everything. He
tells Ram that there’s
another student at Sanjana’s college might find of interest:
Lakshman Prasad
Sharma. Ram agrees to go and asks what class he’ll be
teaching. The general
tells him that he’ll have to pose as a student because as a
teacher he can’t
accompany Sanjana everywhere. Ram protests that he can’t
do it, but the general
persuades him.
- As the two men shake hands,
the photo of Sanjana (AMRITA RAO)
on the table below them turns into live-action Sanjana at
college. (SONG: CHALE
JAISE HAWAEIN) Sanjana and the other students dance
around campus while she
sings that she lives according to her own whims. She stops
dancing and looks
around as she senses someone’s approach. A man whose
face is turned away from
the camera drives up on a motorcycle.
- On a train, where Ram is
riding in a crowded apartment, he
talks to a young boy sitting opposite. He says he’s never
seen his younger
brother, but he feels certain he’ll recognize him because
they’ll have the same
eyes. Cut back to the man on the motorcycle, who removes
his sunglasses. Back
in the train, Ram tells the now-sleeping boy that he thinks his
brother will be
like him: shy, studious, disciplined. Back on campus, the
man unzips his
leather jacket to reveal a Triumph belt buckle. Ram, now
standing alone, says
that he’s sure he’ll know his little brother, Lakshman. Back on
campus, all the
students go running to meet motorcycle man, who is clearly
Lakshman (ZAYED KHAN).
Lakshman dances, singing that he’s a vagabond, but that
everyone has
acknowledged his appeal.
- In one of the college
classrooms, a student stands on a
stage and announces that today Lakshman, who is known as
Lucky, has returned to
college after failing thrice times. Apparently his failure is a
reason to
celebrate. Various students give their testimonials about
their interactions
with Lucky to the camera. Lucky accepts their adulation and
admits that it wasn’t
easy to fail so many times. Sanjana asks if he’s proud of
himself afterwards.
He admits he is and says he can always copy her
homework. She stalks away
irritated. Percy (RANJIV PANJABI) asks Lucky if Sanjana is
Lucky’s girlfriend.
Lucky pish-poshes the idea, then encourages Percy to
pursue Sanjana. Percy asks
him to arm-wrestle him and let Percy win to impress
Sanjana.
- Outside, Percy and Lucky
“wrestle” at a picnic table while
Sanjana watches. With his free hand, Lucky pulls out a
cigarette and lights up.
Sanjana takes the cigarette away. Mini (RAKHI SAWANT)
walks up and says hi.
Lucky asks where her boyfriend Vivek is. Vivek (PRAVEEN
SIROHI) shows up just
then and shoves Percy away, taking his spot at the table. He
challenges Lucky
to arm wrestle. They agree that the loser has to perform a
dare and the winner
will kiss Mini. As they wrestle, it begins to look like Lucky will
win.
Sanjana, agitated by the possibility of Lucky kissing Mini,
burns Lucky with
the still-lit cigarette end so he loses. His dare is to push
down the next
person who walks through the gate.
- The principal (BOMAN
IRANI) walks through the gate. He’s
confused and asks two students where he was going. They
tell him he was going
home and he leaves. The next person to walk in is Ram,
dressed in bell-bottoms,
a buttoned-up shirt and a sweater vest. He asks Lucky for
directions to the
principal’s office and Lucky pushes him down. Then, Lucky
apologizes, saying it
was a dare, and tries to help Ram up but Ram refuses his
aid. Lucky makes some
karate/Three Stooges moves. Sanjana, afraid that Lucky
might be insulting a new
teacher, runs up and apologizes for him. Ram asks her for
directions to the
principal’s office, but Lucky interrupts. Ram grabs his hand and
the two have a staring
contest.
- Suddenly, all the students
begin scattering left and right.
A woman in a sari comes through the gates, loudly
complaining about everyone
running away from her. Lucky groans, “Mrs. Kakkad!” and
tries to run, but Ram
holds fast to his hand. Lucky escapes and Mrs. Kakkad
(BINDU) introduces
herself to Ram. She tells him in English to meet her in the
backside when her
period is empty. A passing student translates for her: she
means meet her in
the back of the class when the room is empty. .
- In the principal’s office, Ram
introduces himself and
explains his mission to the principal. The principal calls him
by the wrong
rank, and Ram corrects him. The principal then continues to
call Ram by every
rank but the correct one for the duration of the scene. Ram
enjoins the
principal to Top Secrecy, and they both make “T’s” with their
hands at each
other, standing for Top Secret. Ram leaves to search for his
brother, but has
no luck, although he runs into Lucky several more times and
has no clue they’re
related.
- In a classroom, Mr. Rasai
(SATISH SHAH) comes in. He spits
constantly on everyone as he speaks. He verbally abuses all
the students. He greets
Ram; Ram stands while replying. The teacher invites Ram to
sit and put his feet
up. When Ram refuses politely, the teacher insists. Ram
looks around for
guidance from his fellow students and they urge him to obey,
so he does. The
teacher reacts with fury. He is about to throw Ram out of
class when the
principal enters and introduces Ram to everyone. He tells
them that Ram had to
leave college in the middle of his original educational
process due to family
responsibilities. He asks who will be Ram’s friend and show
him around campus.
Due to some finagling on Ram’s part, Sanjana gets the
job.
- On campus, Ram follows
Sanjana everywhere while she tries to
avoid him. Finally, she turns to him and says that she likes to
pick her own
friends. She adds that her friends are special, and he’s not
special. At a house surrounded by
fallen leaves and stormy weather, a bunch of SUVs
pull up. Khan exits and says, “Welcome, Raghavan.”
Raghavan (SUNIEL SHETTY) and the other terrorists enter
the building carrying their gear.
- That night, Ram e-mails the
general about his progress while
sitting on the balcony of his hotel room. The balcony
overlooks several small
row houses. Lucky returns home to one of these row houses.
Ram hears Lucky’s
mother’s voice asks him if he’s fixed the fuse because the
electricity is
broken. He tells her he will later. She asks him to spread the
word that they
need a boarder.
Lucky leaves again on
the back of a friend’s motorcycle.
- On campus, Ram tries to find
out who Lakshman is at the ID
office, but they won’t give him any information. Another
student (KUNAL KUMAR),
who is never seen in the film without a sweater vest on,
offers to hack into
the school records to get the information Ram needs. While they’re waiting in
the library for the
student’s page to load up, outside Vivek and Lucky decide
to race because they’re
fighting over Mini again. Their finish line is the rooftop of a
nearby
building. Ram looks out the library window and watches. As
Lucky and Vivek run
across the rooftop to the flagpole, Lucky stumbles and falls.
At the last
minute, he grabs hold of a gutter running the length of the
rooftop, which
bends under his weight. The watching crowd gasps. Ram
runs to the rooftop and rescues
Lucky. When they make it to the ground, everyone gathers
around cheering.
Later, someone takes photos of Sanjana, Lucky, Ram, and Percy with a zoom
lens.
- Raghavan watches the
pictures
as they’re displayed on large plasma televisions. He’s the
masked terrorist
from before. He muses on youth while his troops stand
around him in ankle-deep
water. Raghavan orders Khan to shoot Percy in front of
Sanjana to send General
Bakshi the message that they’re always watching Sanjana.
When Khan hesitates,
Raghavan reminds him that war requires sacrifices.
Flashback. Standing in
uniform in a dusty Indian Army tent, Raghavan turns to hear a
soldier report
that some Pakistani villagers have accidentally crossed the
border. Raghavan
goes to the villagers, asks them if they’re Pakistani, and then
shoots them all
in the head.
- Later, at a court-martial,
General Sharma asks him why he
shot the villagers. Raghavan replies that they were spies.
General Sharma asks
how he could be sure, then states that India is not in a state
of war with
Pakistan. Raghavan replies that they’ve been in a state of
war since 1947.
Khan, in an Indian Army uniform, watches from the back of
the courtroom. Sharma
tells the judges that Raghavan is mentally ill. Raghavan is
dishonorably
discharged. Back in the present day, Raghavan tells Khan
that it’s taken him
ten years to amass an army.
- (SONG: MAIN HOON NA)
Ram is now in favor with the student
body. He’s friends with Lucky, Sanjana, and Percy. The entire campus gets
involved in teaching
Ram What Not to Wear. In his stylish new duds, he tries to
figure out how to
grow closer to Lucky. He notices that Sanjana is infatuated
with Lucky but
can't persuade her to confide in him. Meanwhile, Percy
pines for Sanjana
while she fails to notice.
- At a picnic table, Lucky beats
Vivek at arm-wrestling, then
challenges Ram. Sanjana indicates through facial
expressions that Ram should
let Lucky win, so Ram gives in immediately. The students
make Ram kneel in the
center of the quad and tell him that since he lost he must
serenade the first
girl who comes through the gate. All the students run and
hide. Ram tries to
tunelessly sing “Buffalo Soldier,” but before he gets very far a
woman wearing
a sari approaches.
- Ram is instantly struck by the
woman’s beauty. Percy
excitedly tells the
other students that
she’s their new chemistry teacher. They all whisper, “Don’t
sing, Ram!” The
teacher walks by Ram, brushing him with the hem of her
clothing, and he falls
over. The students sigh in relief but, just as they’re about to
leave, Ram gets
to his feet, spreads his arms wide, and starts singing (with a
playback singer’s
voice) “Chand Mera Dil.” The students and the new
chemistry teacher (SUSHMITA
SEN) stare in disbelief. When Ram gets to a line in the song
about moonlight,
Percy remembers the teacher’s name is Ms. Chandni
(moonlight).
- Principal’s office. Ms.
Chandni has brought Ram in to
complain about his behavior, which she took to be
deliberately disrespectful.
The principal asks what song he sang, and Ram (along with
two random guitar
players) begins singing the song (in SRK’s voice). Ms.
Chandni orders him to
stop it. She says, “So old and still a student. Disgusting!”
and stalks away. (In
my university we called students over 21 “non- traditional,”
but apparently
that concept hasn’t really caught hold in Mumbai.) The
principal orders Ram to
apologize.
- Ram finds Ms. Chandni in the
staff break room. Before he can
apologize, Mr. Rasai steps forward, threatening to throw him
out of college for
entering the teachers’ sanctum sanctorum. He yells, “You
punk!” sending
slow-motion spit particles floating through the air towards
Ram. Ram does a
Matrix-style backbend to avoid getting saliva all over him. He
then stands and
attempts to apologize to Ms. Chandni, but before he can get
too far into it a
mini-orchestra appears around him as he begins to sing
involuntarily. Clapping
both hands over his mouth, Ram runs for it.
- At a movie theater, Ram
goes to see Sholay with Sanjana, Percy, and Sweater-Vest
Wearing Guy whose name
I don’t think is ever mentioned. They talk about Ram’s
incomprehensible singing
around Ms. Chandni. The three younger members of the
group go to get snacks
while Ram waits in the ticket line. A man in front of Ram
hands him a book and
barks “Hold this!” as he shoves to the front. Ram turns to
keep an eye on
Sanjana and notices an ominous black SUV pulling up. The
windows roll down,
revealing Khan, holding a gun and wearing a headset.
- Back in the terrorists’ lair,
Raghavan orders Khan and his
companions to capture Percy’s shooting on tape. Ram
notices the laser dot of
Khan’s sight floating on Percy’s head and blocks the bullet
with the book he’s
holding. He then commandeers a rickshaw and chases after
the fleeing SUV. When
Khan tries to shoot out the window, somehow his door falls
off and Khan is left
behind. Ram knocks him out with the butt of his
handgun.
- The terrorists’ lair. Raghavan
watches the video of the
failed operation while his men watch shame-faced. He gets
angry when one of the
men says that Ram is a student. He says that General
Bakshi has sent his best.
He says that he’ll take care of Ram himself, and it’ll be fun.
- In a darkened room, two men
beat Khan. Ram enters and tells
them to stop. He asks who Raghavan is. Khan says he’s a
soldier, Ram says he’s
a terrorist. They argue about Milaap. Ram gets ready to
leave. He tells Khan he’s
lucky they’re not like Khan’s friends because Khan would be
dead by now if they
were. One of the soldiers outside asks Ram where he’s
going. He replies that he
has to finish school.
- In a classroom, Ms. Chandni
asks what the atomic weight of
calcium is. While everyone stares blank-faced, Ram
fantasizes about her dancing
wildly before her chalkboard. When she starts to pull her hair
back, Ram asks
her to leave it down, then begins involuntarily singing again.
She angrily
pulls her hair into a ponytail and huffs out of the room. Once
out in the hall, she sees her reflection and shakes her
hair loose again while Ram watches from behind a potted
plant. He follows her
down the hallway. (SONG: TUMHE JO MAINE DEKHA) He
follows her out to the
quad. While he admires her reflection in the bulletin board’s
cover glass,
Lucky approaches. He warns about falling in love with a
teacher, and then
complains that the notice he put up about needing a boarder
is covered up. Ram
is struck by an idea.
- In the darkened path outside
Lucky’s home, the two
men walk toward the house. Ram asks
Lucky if he’s sure it’s okay for him to stay. Lucky replies that
his mom always
wanted a son like Ram. Ram asks about his dad. Lucky tells
him that all his
friends know he doesn’t talk about his dad. The house is
dark. Lucky realizes
he forgot to fix the faulty fuse. He sends Ram inside to talk to
his mom. Mrs.
Sharma makes an offering with the tray that has the lit lamps
on it and gives
Ram a tika because she thinks he’s Lucky in the dark. The
lights come on. Lucky
enters and introduces the two. Ram touches her feet; Lucky
tells his mother
that “he’s just your type.”
- In his new room, Ram
unpacks his stuff, including
his father’s ashes, which he hides as Mrs. Sharma enters.
She insists, over his
protests, that he eat some of her cooking. She tells him that
Lucky told her he
doesn’t have a mother. He tells her that he is what he is
today because he had
a good father. She says that fathers are so important. Ram
asks her if Lucky’s
father ever came back to get her.
- Flashback. General Sharma
sits on a couch in the
Darjeeling house, asking Mrs. Sharma to come back. He
says it’s been seven
years and surely she must have forgiven him by now. She
says it’s not a
question of forgiveness. She refuses to live in the same
house as Ram. Lucky
listens as she lays down her ultimatum: either Ram leaves,
or they stay gone.
General Sharma leaves in defeat.
- Present day, in class with Mr.
Rasai. Mr. Rasai
demands last night’s homework assignments, threatening to
make anyone who didn’t
do it re-do the assignment five times. He demands
homework from sleeping Lucky,
who fruitlessly tries to steal Sanjana’s folder then pretends to
look for the
assignment although he clearly didn’t do it. Ram passes him
his own copy on the
sly. Mr. Rasai catches him and makes Ram kneel in the
hallway holding his
earlobes. In the hallway, Ms. Chandni passes by. They talk
for a moment, then
suddenly violinists appear out of nowhere and a voice
begins singing “Oh, this
boy is nutty as a pie.” Confused by the musical
accompaniment to her feelings,
Ms. Chandni rushes away.
- Sanjana looks for Lucky, who
has just entered the
library for the first time ever to complete the physics
assignment. Just as she
walks in, she overhears Lucky tell another student that she’s
a Plain Jane, not
a worthy candidate for the position of Lucky’s Girlfriend. She
backs out
unnoticed. Ram finds her crying alone in a concert hall. She
confesses that her
father never loved her because he wanted a son. She tried to become a
boy, and look! She’s
succeeded. Now no one even notices she’s a girl. Ram tells
her she’s fine just
as she is, but perhaps they should remind everyone in the
college that she’s the
prettiest girl there.
- Ms. Chandni opens her front
door to see Ram
standing, apparently alone. He asks her to make him look
exactly like her. When
she demands, “What?” he corrects himself, “I mean Sanju.”
Sanjana comes out
from where she was hiding behind Ram. Ms. Chandni
welcomes her in and shuts the
door in Ram’s face after telling him, “See you then.” That
night, Ram tries to
get Lucky to admit he likes Sanjana. Lucky denies it, saying
that when he falls
in love the whole campus will hear violins.
- The next morning before
classes start, the whole
student body is shocked to see Sanjana, wearing a salwar
kameez with her hair
washed for the first time in the film. A crowd of boys follows
her across
campus. Violins play around Lucky. As Sanjana’s dupatta
brushes the stunned
Lucky’s face, he falls to his knees. (Song: TUMSE MILKE DIL KA JO HAAL) Sanjana tells Ms.
Chandni inside a hallway
that “it worked.” Ms. Chandni tells her to thank Ram, who is
trying not to
appear like he’s eavesdropping nearby.
- Lucky approaches
Sanjana. She tells him she already knows what he’s going to
say: that he feels a
sudden attraction to her. He agrees. She says she feels like
she’s cheated him,
because tomorrow she’ll go back to her old clothes. She
says the difference
between Percy and he is that at least Percy didn’t like her
because of what she
wore. That night, Lucky sulks in front of the TV while
channel-surfing. Ram
asks him to leave it on a show about the Army. Lucky rants
about the army and
how his father who was in the Army abandoned him, does
some screaming at his
disembodied father, and then runs out. Ram asks Mrs.
Sharma if she can ever
forgive her husband; she replies that it’s too late.
- Professor Rasai is
kidnapped out of a phone booth by two terrorists. Later, in
his classroom, the
principal comes in to announce that Professor Rasai isn’t
coming back but that
he’s sent a replacement. Raghavan, disguised with glasses
and a long gray wig,
enters. He verbally abuses Lucky, insults Sanjana’s father,
and offends
basically everyone in the class. In the hall after
class, Lucky asks Sanjana to prom. She replies that she’s
already going with
Percy. Percy watches this exchange, then comes and tells
Sanjana that she’s too
boring for him to go to prom with her. Also her makeup is
bad. He proceeds to
suggest that she go with Lucky instead. At this point she
sees through his
charade. Touched by his sacrifice, Sanjana hugs him and
apologizes. She still
takes him up on his offer, though.
- Ram admits to his
friends that he can’t go to prom because he can’t dance.
They push play on a
tape deck one of them is carrying around, inviting him to
show them how he can’t
dance. He is awful. Hey, there’s Tabu watching him dance
for three seconds! Oh,
she’s gone. Lucky, Sanjana, Vivek, Mini, the cheerleaders,
Mrs. Kakkad and the
principal all teach Ram to dance in time for prom.
- On prom night,
Lucky, Sanjana, and Percy try to blackmail Ram into asking
Ms. Chandni to
dance, apparently forgetting Lucky’s earlier warnings
against falling for a
teacher. Raghavan quietly instructs his terrorists to proceed
over a headset.
They shoot two guards sitting in an SUV outside. Inside,
everyone dances,
including Ram and Ms. Chandni. (SONG: GORI GORI)
Afterwards, Raghavan makes Ram
escort Ms. Chandni to her car. Just as she invites Ram to
drive her home, a
terrorist in her car waves a gun in her face and takes off in
her car with her
as a passenger. The two terrorists in the SUV follow. Ram
pursues, shooting all
the terrorists and rescuing Ms. Chandni.
- Raghavan is driving
Sanjana and Lucky home. After they drop off Lucky, Ram
appears, waving his gun,
and hops in back with Sanjana. He tells Raghavan to drive to
the girls’ hostel
where Sanjana lives. An Army coterie awaits Sanjana there,
including her
father. General Bakshi tells Sanjana that he sent Ram to
protect her. Raghavan
pretends to be surprised by the news and drives away. In
Ms. Chandni’s house,
she cleans Ram’s scratches and cuts while he squirms. After
ascertaining that
he’s definitely not a student, she kisses him on the corner of
his mouth and
whispers, “Happy Teacher’s Day.”
- The next morning,
Ram visits the principal’s office, where Raghavan is also
visiting. Raghavan
congratulates Ram on his successful mission. The principal
asks if Ram’s found
Lakshman Prasad Sharma. Later, sitting together on Ms.
Chandni’s porch, she
tells him that he should admit the truth to Lucky and Mrs.
Sharma soon, because
if they find out from someone else they’ll feel betrayed. He
goes home to do
exactly that, but Raghavan’s already beat him to it. Lucky
curses and screams.
Ram packs up his stuff and gets ready to leave. Mrs.
Sharma asks why he did
what he did; he replies that he is trying to fulfill his father’s
dying wish
and leaves. Mrs. Sharma and Lucky are stunned and
saddened by the news of
General Sharma’s death.
- In the college
quad, everyone except for Lucky has gathered to say
goodbye to Ram. (SONG: MAIN
HOON NA [SAD]) Ms. Chandni accompanies him to the
railway station, but stays
behind when he boards his train. Ram’s phone rings. He
says, “Yes sir? What?”
and jumps off the train. Cut to a grainy video of Sanjana
staring defiantly at
the camera while held by terrorists. Raghavan turns the
camera to talk directly
to General Bakshi, telling him that if he doesn’t stop Project
Milaap and also
release Khan then everyone in St. Paul’s will die. He pans
the video camera to
show the entire student body and the teachers sitting in the
concert hall under
guard.
- General Bakshi
tells Raghavan that Pakistan has agreed to reciprocate
Project Milaap by
releasing Indian prisoners. Raghavan doesn’t care. Ram
tells General Bakshi not
to stop the project because he’ll take care of the hostages.
Mrs. Sharma
listens from an adjacent room. She follows Ram outside and
tells him she wants
both of her sons to come back safe.
- Ram arrives at the
school in handcuffs accompanied by Khan. Ram and
Raghavan get into an argument
over Project Milaap. Khan gets agitated and screams for
Ram to shut up, then
shoots him twice over Raghavan’s objections. Everyone
from the college screams.
Later, Khan drags Ram’s “body” out to the quad, then
unlocks his cuffs. Ram
sits up and thanks him—hey! He was wearing a bulletproof
vest!
- Ram goes in and
singlehandedly releases the students and teachers from
their hostage situation.
As they flee, Raghavan discovers that his guards are dead
and comes over to
investigate. He discovers Khan’s treachery and kills him.
Ram and Raghavan have
a drawn-out fight juxtaposed against cuts to a sun-drenched
view of the
India/Pakistan border as prisoners are released from each
side and run to their
relatives. They fight on the roof and then Ram starts to walk
away while Lucky
approaches. He’s hanging from the open door of an Army
helicopter that’s flying
toward the combatants. Raghavan realizes that Ram pulled
the pin from a grenade
that is hanging from his own vest. Ram dives for the
helicopter and makes it
(barely) while the roof explodes, killing Raghavan. Lucky and
Ram hug each
other and yell triumphantly in the helicopter.
- Lucky and Ram dump
General Sharma’s ashes into a river while Mrs. Sharma,
dressed in white,
watches from the riverbank. Back at the school, students in
graduation caps and
gowns cheer while Lucky and Ram accept their diplomas.
Ms. Chandni and Mrs.
Sharma applaud from the audience. End credits. (SONG:
YE FIZAEIN) All the cast and
crew except Naseer Shah and Suniel Shetty come out to
wave at the camera and
point at brightly decorated things with their real names on it.
"To dil
diiwaane hai.n..." Happily ever after.
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