In India the poor are citizens, in Pakistan they are servants. In Pakistan, the poor either sweep the floor in jails or sweep the floor in mansions. In India, poor people sit atop trains and sing paeans of patriotic love for the motherland. Lahore, on the other hand, is a Kafkaesque funny house packed with jails and the gaudy, ostentatious mansions of rich politicians. It is an India of trees and tractors, at one with its agrarian roots and industrialist aspirations. We are shown vast fields and small villages where big-hearted philanthropists set up schools for the poor. It is the Punjabi countryside in all its verdant glory. the India we are shown in Veer Zaara is lush. Chopra lack of research, at least, says: Munhall architecture is sufficient to evoke Lahore, even if it really showing you Delhi.Īnd that brings me to my next issue with the film, which is its terminally Indian view of Pakistan. Chopra couldnt come to Pakistan, fine but this is what Mr. as a result, the Lahore†we see is one of embarrassing, two-dimensional stage sets and kitschy watercolor window views. Chopra couldnt be bothered (or simply couldnt) to go to the great city for landscape shots. Half of Veer Zaara is set in Lahore, but Mr. The film laziness will be immediately evident to a Pakistani viewer. but it also suffers from laziness, a terminally Indian view of Pakistan, and a muddled value system. Sometimes it even makes you want to pray. it is beautifully shot, has nice songs, and often moves you to tears. It insists that love is a force that binds more strongly than hatred divides. It pursues tolerance and forgiveness from start to finish. Veer ends up in a Lahori jail and Zaara in his Indian village. fall madly in love and then proceed to make sacrifices for each other that are necessitated by the oppressive boundaries of nation-states. Veer is from a village in Indian Punjab, while Zaara is from Lahore. The film is about an Indian Punjabi called Veer Pratap Singh (Shahrukh Khan) who falls in love with a Pakistani called Zaara Hayat Khan (Preity Zinta).
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