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India is making a honest effort to make peace with Pakistan, but there
are some forces on both sides who just won't let that happen, even if that
means turning against one's own people ... and thus, Indian General Sharma
(Naseeruddin Shah) is killed by the Indian terrorist Raghavan (Sunil
Shetty) while working on the peace project. And now it falls upon his son
Ram (Shahruck Khan) not only to find his father's estranged wife and
(other) son, but also guard the daughter of General Bakshi (Kabir Bedi),
Sanjana (Amrita Rao), who is next on Raghavan's death list ... but she
must not notice she is uinder guard, as she has broken up with her father
years ago.
So what better to do than send Ram back to the very highschool both
Sanjana and his brother Lakshman (Zayed Khan) are going to ... but as
another student, even though he is (and looks) 10 years too old for the
part ...
What follows is light highschool comedy, with Sanjana and Lakshman
falling in and out of love with each other. with Sanjana and Lakshman
coming to learn to accept Ram as one of their kind, and Ram teaching
Lakshman enough discipline to finally pass the grade and graduate (he
previously flunked the class three years in a row). And besides, there's
the new chemistry teacher, Chandni (Sushmita Sen), a woman more his own
age, whom Ram falls madly in love with ...
But while all these highschool shenanigans are going on, Raghavan
(about whom nobody knows what he looks like) manages to get a job as the
school's new physics teacher, and he makes several attempts to subtly
kidnap Sanjana ... which somehow doesn't work out all tht good, so in the
end, he takes the whole school hostage and asks for exchange not only for
the peace process to be halted, but also for Ram, on whom he wants to
exact revenge.
What follows is an explosive shoot-out wand martial arts battle, at the
end of which though Raghavan is blown to pieces while in the end, Ram has
tied up all the loose ends and buries his father together with Lakshman,
while even Sanjana is reconciled with her father.
Blending a tough terrorism plot with high light school comedy might
sound more interesting than the finished film actually is, it's a rather
conventional comedy with some scenes of violence thrown in. However, that
doesn't mean the film is just bad, Shahrukh Khan gives a solid performance
in the lead role despite the rather embarrassing premise, some scenes are
really and genuinely funny, and the action is really well-done, at times
competently, self-consciously and ironically stealing from the Matrix
series (the best scene is where Shahrukh ducks his teacher's spit Matrix-style).
It might not be great desptie all of that, but it's not bad either.
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