Heroes

Plot synopsis:
Two film academy students, Ali (Vatsal Sheth) and Sameer (Sohail Khan), must make a movie in order to graduate. They choose to create a documentary illustrating reasons not to join the Indian Armed Forces, and go on a motorcycle road trip bearing three letters they have been given to deliver — each from a slain soldier to his family.
On their first stop, in Atari, Amritsar, they meet the widow, Kuljeet Kaur (Preity Zinta), and the son, Jassi, of a Sikh soldier, Balkar Singh (Salman Khan), who was Killed in action (KIA) three years earlier. The students find that the entire village is very proud of the heroic officer and his sacrifice for the country. When they are flying kites, their kite is cut and it falls beyond a certain fence, in another field. Jassi tells them that the area beyond the fence is Pakistan, and the fence is the Border.
The students' second stop, Himachal, finds them meeting the wheelchair-bound former Air Force pilot Vikram Shergill (Sunny Deol), whose Army officer brother, Dhananjay Shergill (Bobby Deol), had also been Killed in Action (KIA). There they see that Vikram is very proud of his brother's sacrifice for his country. He shows them how he has come to terms with his own grief.
The third letter is to be delivered to a certain Mr. and Mrs. Naqvi (played by Mithun Chakraborty and Prateeksha Lonkar). In between, their bike runs out of petrol, and they hitch a ride on a military convoy heading to a nearby base. They witness coffins of martyrs in their truck, and the driver quotes an inspiring poem. At the base, they talk to the Regiment commander and find another letter by Lt. Sahil Naqvi (Dino Morea) which they request to deliver it themselves. They see that Mrs. Naqvi is busy in a tea party, hardly paying any attention. Sameer accuses her of not loving her son, and says that Sahil was a coward. Mrs. Naqvi plays them a tape which Sahil had recorded in war, after he had saved a junior's life. She tells him that she and her husband have been affected, and the Tea Parties serve as a distraction for them. They leave, but return the next day, and slowly bring the couple's life back to normal.
After completing their film, they reveal in a voice over that they graduated but did not go to America (as they had initially planned) because the trip has changed their outlook. They try to join the Army but fail. Hence, they start a school to share their experience. Some years later, Sameer and Ali are waking around their School campus. A man in olive green uniform (Salman Khan) approaches them. This is revealed to be Jassi, the son of the first martyred army officer. Now a strapping young man, he has joined the army like his father, and will soon graduate from the IMA. The movie ends with the statement, "You don't have to be a soldier to love your country".

Tags: paranormal

Review:
Read on...VOLUME ONE: GENESIS - Here's the thing about Heroes: Instead of having "seasons" like normal TV shows, it has "volumes" to be more like comic books.
Fans laid the blame on the writer's strike, so expectations soared yet again for volume three...VOLUME THREE: VILLAINS - Volume three had the heroes trying to stop a formula which gives normal people superpowers from being mass produced, and would therefore destroy the world.
Luckily NBC's ratings suck this season, and Heroes is still one of its better performing shows, so Heroes might get lucky.If you plan to watch Heroes for the first time, skip volumes two and three.
And by the show's end a revelation comes about her family life that made the show even more interesting.With a painter who creates art that sees into the future and a comedic turn by Masi Oka and his abilities it's hard not to enjoy heroes.
Who knows, maybe just maybe the fifth season could have been a boost with the world knowing about super humans and might go in the direction like "True Blood" except people with super powers going out into the public.
I'm as a huge a 24 and House fan as is out there, but Heroes may have just taken TV's top billing in one night.I must admit, shows now-a-days tend to go down hill after the pilot, but NBC's latest offering seems to have set itself up with a concept and tone that could carry on strong, at least for a season.
What we got instead was a surprisingly good pilot that brought enough "hero material" to live up to its name, but not too much as to make us think we were watching an X-men ripoff.The writing and the interweaving plot and characters is compelling and interesting, nothing dumbed down, but nothing contrived either.
Then there were numerous plot holes, we started getting way too many heroes(for the writers anyhow, they were not capable of properly incorporating them into the story so they became a nuisance) and the worst of all in my book, because of too much material and inability to tie it all in with the story, the viewer never gets to see the proper development of the heroes and accepting their powers and using them while not constantly b*tching about it.
The story becomes unwatchable and the characters behave even worse I thought possible.All in all, the series starts great, great idea, great visuals.
But then we have too many characters, story starts slowing down to a crawl, plot holes and loose ends, stupid confusing story, stupid heroes with unrealistic behavior who constantly complain about everything and as a viewer one does not get the satisfaction of seeing his favourite hero really embracing his powers and acting normally.
When we reach the end of an increasingly convoluted plot line every episode, we are treated with a Jerry Springer style moral-of-the-story, but you can't help the feeling that it is more an attempt to hold the whole thing together in the mind of the maker, to give a meta narrative or deeper purpose to the whole mess.
people want that and nothing else.------------------------------------------------------So I watched the newest season up until episode 12 to see what was going on...
I'm not sure I have the patience to last another 15 episodes.Series like Heroes deserve better.
all the characters are beginning to develop a lot of depth, and i know that they have yet to show all the characters in the pilot but hopefully we will see just how far they can take this and show the back side of things..not the heroes everyone thinks of, but how they all become that person.
The actors/actresses are very good at what roles they have and I for one am already hooked.The main characters are individuals that are just discovering their super-human abilities and as the show progresses you are given the feeling that these individuals will be coming together and assisting one another to prevent major catastrophes from occurring.
Plot lines are constantly introduced that seem intriguing and exciting, but then are either cycled out of the show after a few episodes as if the writers just want us to forget about them (e.g. save the cheerleader, save the world .
But the third season so irritated and frustrated me with the pathetic script and its nasty mess of revolting characters that I hit the off button on the remote and we have never watched another episode.
In the first episode, we see a nurse, Peter Petrelli, played by Milo Ventimiglia, who is the original reason I started watching this show because I've seen a lot of his work and feel that he is a very strong actor, learns that he can fly.
When I saw the trailer for this in the surprising best movie I've ever seen, The Descent, I knew it looked unique, different, and fantastic, but I had no idea just how great it would be."Heroes" prevails without a doubt in the area of character development.
All of the characters are interesting, intriguing, and well-written, and my favorites are Peter and Claire.Not only is "Heroes" a perfect character drama piece, but also a mesmerizing tale of what would happen if real people with real emotions got superpowers.
This is what a good superhero show should be.After nearly an entire season, I already rank "Heroes" second among my favorite TV shows of all timeit ranks second just under "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." There isn't a single negative thing to say about the show except for the fact that after the passing of each episode, you only want more, more, more!
Be sure not to miss even a single episode of "Heroes!" You should check out one of the highest rated new showsyou won't be disappointed!EDIT: After all of season 1 has completed and the finale aired, Heroes is still one of my favorite shows.
None of the characters seem original, but rather like talking heads in some crazy world where they have super powers and nothing happens.
I had a hard time getting into this series as it was slow to develop and left me wanting more from the characters.
No true character development happened in the first six episodes and I never felt like the story line drew me into their lives.
This series does have a lot of potential and if it makes it to a second or third season the writers should look into making the characters more three dimensional.
In the absence of anything better the series gets a 5 out of 10.The storyline gains some complexity in season 2 as the characters grow into their powers.
You would think with so little progression they could hold what remains together, but the series itself is plagued with plot holes like smoldering craters.Its a show about people with super powers, but even on that level it fails to be internally consistent.
Progression of the actual story follows an abysmal precedent set by shows like Lost and Prison Break where every step forward is met by an equal step backward later along the line.You can enjoy looking forward to 4 minutes of every episode watching whats already happened, the director actually having the audacity to replay scenes from the episode before it just in case you were hit by a bus and were struck by a nasty case of amnesia.
There is just THAT much filth to sift through.This is one of the most horribly written shows ever that has lasted more than a single season.Watch any episode, and use just an ounce of critical thinking (if you're capable of it) and you'll know what I mean.
I guess this show is not so bad when compared to some of the other garbage that is on TV at the moment.All things considered - its a decent TV sci-fi series , but I doubt ill make the effort to watch the second season..
When Lost came out, it was a breath of fresh air, something totally different (though not entirely original) and now it's spawning a lot of imitators.Heroes seems to be one of the more obvious imitations; it features a large, sprawling cast in unusual circumstances and a plot lay out that will only be resolved throughout the series, instead of episodes resolving themselves.
Heroes is a lot like Icarus: the fabled legend of a boy who grew wings, but stared too long into the sun and ended up falling from the heavens.Show starts with an ensemble cast of intriguing characters who form super powers.
The premise: There are people among us who are the products of "activated evolution." They look no different from you and me, but in young adulthood they manifest "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men," as they used to say about Superman: Super strength, super speed, flight, telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, future sight, fire- starting, time travel, and all the other old standbys we're familiar with from comics and other popular media.
I watched last nights episode expecting an exciting action filled adventure and got nothing but crap.And another thing don't the characters on this show get tired of being wrong all the time?
It's clearly trying to get in on the marvel super hero boom that we have seen over the past few years of "film" but didn't want the crusty old busy body Stan Lee getting a slice of the pie so we have none of the famous names that every superhero geek has come to love.I seem to have high expectations when it comes to new sci fi/ fantasy shows because I am always disappointed.
I love science fiction and I adore the escapism of fantasy I dream of a good show a show where I don't have to wince as it stutters and lags through from show to show because of the ineptitude of its creators of course I'm bothered by its cruddy mistakes I'm a geek I'm watching a show about superheroes.To give the show some credit it is a lot better than "Aquaturd" but heroes is never the less just as offencive to anyone who reads comics or likes to think a little about what they are watching.The two female characters seemingly there from the very start as sexual relief, the shot where Claire Bennet the regenerating school girl (who doesn't seem to feel pain for some strange reason) is bent over in her cheerleader outfit after saving a man from a burning train wreck was quite disgustingly cheep, and the other female hero is a mommy stripper but the only thing cheap about this character is her child genius yawn.
If the first episode is any indication, Heroes will be one of the best new series of the year.I read the other comment that suggested the characters gaining their powers at the same time was dull, lazy writing, but this is not the case.
The writers interweave the lives of the characters together very well.I look forward to more episodes of Heroes..
"A show based on humans with superpowers?" "Hasn't this been done before?" Well, yes; a new show created by producer and writer Tim Kring sees people all over the world discovering their newfound abilities in their own ways, more like X-Men for the common folk.
Course with that being said, the characters are...well...common folk.With several interesting plots that only seem to compare to the 'The 4400' which bares the story of people who are genetically enhanced and sent time-travelling to a specific place in time to alter history, it's fair to say that Heroes does neither of this, or travel in any direction in any shape or form.The show itself has several interesting features that try to distinguish itself from other Sci-Fi orientated shows, with that in mind it plays along the lines of a comic book.
Maso Oka's Hiro Nakamura is so stock he could quite easily be placed on a pantomime stage and not look out of place, and the only questions Ali Larter's character Nikki throws up are "eh?" and "what?" (Having said that, her acting comes into its own a few episodes in and credit where credit is finally due).Overall, the makers seem to have been so desperate to create a new Lost or 24 they have neglected to remember to write a story.
By the final episode it just feels like you've ran around playing with these people, and I could have sworn the final resolution happened around five times through the course of the series.
This season attempted the same kind of multiple intertwining character and story arcs that all build up to a finale that tied them all together but the 2006-2007 WGA strike more or less cut the season in half which in turn rendered half-the subplots irrelevant and left most of the audience feeling like they didn't need to watch half the scenes in every episode, things weren't made any better by writer/co-showrunner Bryan Fuller's departure.
The ratings for the show plummeted like a stone during this season and unfortunately those lost viewers wouldn't come back next season despite it being better than the last two combined.Season 4: It's better than the last two seasons but still nowhere near as great as the first one, again the budget and the writing staff still being shackled to the season 1 cast didn't help matters but on balance the season did a much better job of giving the season 1 characters something to do and minimized the screen time of those that they couldn't do anything with (namely Tracy, Matt and Suresh).
The main villain was a great foil to Peter (arguably THE main character of the series) and the overall premise was better executed than that of the last season.
The season was worthwhile in the end, the character and story arcs were better executed and tied together, the villain was stronger the new cast members were interesting.Overall I'm recommending at least the first season.
I think the only reason it was on for as long as it was is because people thought it would actually go somewhere, I made it to the episode 1 or 2 of season 3 before I started skipping ahead to see if anything was going to happen and two my surprise it actually was able to get worse.
Its like they didn't respect or believe in their own story, and decided to use constant new "Shockers" to revitalize the tension, which only lead to growing disappointment and "dhohs" as you never could let the story grow into its own or get a sense of what was actually possible or not.Furthermore, every character gradually develops superhuman abilities as the plot demands it, every ability can alter, time is not even an issue, and what you are left with is a melting pot of open ended twists that can turn in any direction at any given time.After season 2 things have gotten so bad that its hard to care about anything in a world where nothing is real..
The only show I think is worth watching on NBC this season is Heroes.
The characters come across as real people, no mean feat with so little time to develop each one given the large ensemble cast.
On most other shows it takes a good part of a season for the viewer to become invested in the characters.
The amazing acting and extraordinary script make it hard to find anything wrong with this series although like every film/TV show there's always a few plot holes or goofs.In my personal opinion the way the show is handled is near perfect, great action, great special effects and somehow the writers seem to be able to pull off a (far from cliché) cliff hanger that gives the show a kinda' addictive nature.I could honestly sit here all day and write about the amazing points to this show..
The pilot starts the series by showcasing people from around the world beginning to recognize that they have special abilities and begins to develop the characters.
I also find it very interesting that a lot of the characters are connected in some way without really knowing that they are connected to the other "heroes." This show, in my opinion is the best pilot this year and i believe it will stay that way.
This series I hope will continue, I'm glad you in the USA have made it an international project, some say this is the next lost, don't be silly, i gave up on lost, what Heroes have done is shown the audience how to be gripped onto your seats and kicks you where it hurts which is a very rare thing, its also annoying but extremely effective for making the viewer watch next episode.
I'm not saying shows always should follow that but Heroes is still at the beginning of season 4 (while we are at episode 8 at this time) and instead of finally closing all the plot holes they left open they suddenly head for another direction and change it all AGAIN.
for now at least.The positive things about "Heroes" are so many, from the story development to character development and special effects.
While it might not be a very original idea, the premise that very few people know about their powers, and that there is no center for the gifted , makes this series an interesting new take on the idea.The only regret I have is, that I personally think that there's a few too many characters in the story, and that the writer's are really dragging out the plots.
They are all connected somehow, no matter how different they are, it is up to them to save the world,and that is where the title comes in "heroes".Each power is very unique and interesting and after every episode your left wanting more and wanting to see what happens next!!