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 The Partition is a sordid blood-drenched chapter in the history of Indian subcontinent. Thousands lost their lives in the riots that flared up after India and Pakistan became free of the British yoke. The afterbirth of independence was even more painful than the struggle that led to it. Such were the conditions that the masses had to flee sometimes with just the clothes on their backs across the border. The most precious possession they carried perhaps was the memory of their former homes. Old folks, who had to migrate from Pakistan, still retain those memories. They long to see their old houses once before they die. Sardar Ka Grandson is said to be inspired by one such true story. Director Kaashvie Nair came upon the story of a man who waited for 70 years to catch a glimpse of his house in Pakistan. She was touched  by the poignant tale and chose to weave a film around it. 

The film is the story of Sardar Kaur, who is played by Neena Gupta (90 year old self) and Aditi Rao Hydari (20 year old version). Sardar loved Gursher Singh (John Abraham), an expert bicycle mechanic who longed to start his own cycle company in Lahore. They got married in 1946 and soon had a son. But destiny turned their dreams to ashes as Gursher was killed defending his family during the Partition riots. Sardar had to flee to India, carrying her newborn son and one of the bicycles crafted by her husband across the border. We are told that she got married again and her second husband -- who isn't shown in the film, maybe she's a widow twice over -- helped her establish a cycle company. The company is now managed by her grandson from her second marriage, while her favourite grandson, the child of the son she brought to India, Amreek Singh (Arjun Kapoor), runs a transport company in America with the help of his fiancee and partner Radha (Rakul Preet Singh). While Amreek is high on ideas, he’s clumsy as hell and that often leads to complications. Things take a turn for the worse between them and Radha, fed up with his unwillingness to grow up, breaks up with him. Sardar, who is suffering from cancer, hasn’t got long to live and Amreek’s father Gurkeerat Singh (Kanwaljit Singh) asks him to come back home. Amreek wants to fulfil his grandmother’s dying wish of visiting Lahore. When she doesn’t get the visa, he comes up with the audacious plan of transporting her old house in Pakistan to India. How he manages to do that forms the crux of the story. 

The film’s central idea may seem improbable indeed but its heart certainly is in the right place. Leave aside the fantastic premise and what you have is a film about a grandson who has grown upon hearing tales of his grandmother’s tragic romance and wanting to give her closure before she passes away. And, in doing so, probably learning to grow up and set things right in his own life in the process. The film doesn’t take the Bajrangi Bhaijaan route, where the hero illegally enters Pakistan to reunite a young girl with her family. Here, you see every formality being rigorously followed. The bureaucracy, on both sides of the border, are shown to be sympathetic to Amreek’s cause, even as they struggle with the practicality of it. Like Bajrangi Bhaijaan, the media turns the whole thing into a giant PR exercise and politicians are shown to cash-in on it for the sake of their own ratings. And similarly like the Salman Khan starrer, it’s the common people in Pakistan who are shown to have a big heart and help out the hero in his quest. Radha also realises that tantrums aside, Amreek certainly possesses a heart of gold and not only forgives him but also helps him out.  

Sardar Ka Grandson is a feel-good wish fulfillment film for thousands of people affected by Partition. But one should ask -- does a house actually mean anything without the people living in it? Why does Sardar not have an equal, if not greater, regard for her second husband, the man who actually turned her dream of owning a cycle company into reality. Why is the second husband absent from the scene altogether -- we don’t even see a photo of him in the household. Why isn’t she as close to her second son and his family as she’s to the first? A part of her life ended in Pakistan. But her real struggle, real journey towards rebuilding what she had lost, her life as a successful entrepreneur was set in India. We see no glimpses of that either. Wouldn’t that have been a more inspiring story. You feel as if you’re watching just a small aspect of Sardar’s story while the best parts have been hidden from view. A mention was made earlier of a rift between Amreek and his family but later everything is shown to be hunky dory. And Radha too is shown to be easily forgiving. 

The production design is spot on and so is the costume design. Care has been taken to recreate Lahore on the sets. People, for once, are shown speaking Punjabi and not textbook Urdu. Though one must add that barring Aditi Rao Hydari, who has made sure her diction and accent, no other actor has really cared about maintaining singularity while speaking Punjabi. John Abraham wisely chooses to speak Hindi. Kanwaljit Singh, Neena Gupta and Soni Razdan too fluctuate between Punjabi and Hindi and Arjun Kapoor doesn’t even speak in Punjabi while in Lahore. Both John and Aditi are competent in their short and sweet roles.

Kumud Mishra is the villain of the piece and like always, has done a dependable job, relying on his eyes and body language, rather than over-the-top histrionics, to send across the menace. Neena Gupta is having the time of her life in her 60s, getting better author-backed roles than what she got in her prime. She plays the eccentric grandmother to the hilt. One of her best scenes is perhaps where she mouths reams of dialogue saying sorry to her dog. She’s shown to be someone stuck in the past and makes one sympathise with that aspect. Kanwaljit and Soni Razdan, her dutiful son and daughter-in-law, too look like a long-married couple who know each other’s trigger points. One would have loved to know more about them. The romance between Rakul Preet Singh and Arjun Kapoor is relegated to the opening credits. Why so? The couple dynamics between them don’t get fleshed out. She’s absent from a large part of the film. Rakul’s shown to be a level-headed girl and does what’s required of her character. The film revolves around Sardar and her grandson. Neena Gupta and Arjun Kapoor share a genuine rapport on screen. She’s his best friend and he’s her favourite grandchild. Arjun Kapoor is the pillar of sincerity in the film. He isn’t playing a hero bashing away 20 goons but someone who genuinely cares for relationships. It’s an all-heart performance indeed from the actor. He makes you believe in his character, despite the improbability of the task set before him...