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Umar
Cast Jimmy Shergill, Shenaz Treasurywala, Kader Khan, Prem Chopra,
Satish Kaushik
Director Karan Razdan
Genre Drama
Year 2006
Youth is proud. Youth is often amateur and insensitive to the problems of the
old. In the pride of youth, one tends to forget that at some juncture in life,
they will also traverse through the same lanes and by lanes of old age and
physical wilt. But Shahshank (Jimmy Shergill) has a more mature perspective
towards life. He treats senior citizens with care, love, affection and respect.
He caresses their souls with his soothing touch of polite words and
compassionate deeds. On the other hand there are those who treat their own
parents with disrespect and contempt. This is the story of three such senior
citizens - Iqbal Khan (Kader Khan), Chanderkant Mehta (Prem Chopra) and Rajpal
Singh (Satish Kaushik) based in U.K. who are insensitively treated as servants
by their own children. Humiliated and insulted, the three are left feeling
defeated and hopeless, waiting for the inevitable end.
Shashank is in love with Prem Lakha's (Shakti Kapoor) daughter Sapna (Shennaz
Treasurywala). Since Shashank is so respectful to the three senior citizens,
whenever they meet by chance, the three help him with his love life. But Sapna's
father, who is rich and keeps company of powerful friends like Ben Chibber (Dalip
Tahil), a member of the British Parliament, is against their union. Shashank
ends up getting caught in a vicious net. He is charged of murdering a British
girl. He is put behind bars. The three old men are pained but they plan his
escape when he is being taken to the prison. He is shot in the process. But they
shelter him in Iqbal's home. Soon their children find out about this. The old
men are almost beaten by their children but Shashank intervenes and saves them
from their children's wrath. He proposes to leave but here the old men take a
drastic step, such that they end up becoming fugitives along with Shashank. They
all form a four-man army to fight for justice and how this war against the
establishment ends up giving meaning to their lives at this age is what forms
the climax of the film. In the process, Shashank who is an orphan gets the love
of parents from these three old men for the first time. The film is versatile
with the shades of love, caring, struggle, separation, conflict and a battle for
justice. It's an ultimate saga of courage and bravery, equally gripping for the
young and the old. It's a touching story that unfolds the alchemy of human
emotions in its fullness.
   
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