Product Details

• Actors: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Katrina Kaif, Shilpa Shetty
• Format: Color
• Subtitles: English, Arabic, French
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 180 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000UAPEJ2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,496 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The subject of 'Apne' is born out of the most important aspect of Indian life - Family. Indian men have time and again sacrificed their dreams of winning the world over to keep their families intact. An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance to wash the stain. An opportunity strikes Baldev in the form of a T.V. Show. He trains a local boy to get into this media hyped boxing show, but is ditched for a better coach at the last minute. Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Realizing his father is in crises of his life, he gives up his dream of a musical career to get into the game of boxing. Karan works hard and wins all through thinking that his victory will bring the two pillars of his family together. After winning within the nation, he wins all over the world. The final match is with the current world heavy champion. The match goes fine, but Karan is tricked and he ends up paralyzed in a hospital bed. Baldev, who wanted to wash a stigma is now about to loose his son. He feels like killing himself. Angad steps in to turn the game upside down and bring his father the happiness of a lifetime.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It wasnt a bad movie, August 2, 2007

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C. Singh (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apne (DVD)

This movie was not bad at all. It was a little boring at first.But at the end it was very entertaining especially the boxing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The only thing worse than Apne is a folcider. And folcider isn't even a real word., July 26, 2007

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N. Sud - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apne (DVD)

Apne stinks. That's just a fact. Recognizing self-stink (that should really be a word) is difficult, so the Deols are excused. But everybody else? Clearly a case of massive, large-scale nose-block. Or perhaps Dharmendra-euphoria, but even then, why doesn't Hindustani and Timely Khaild take a sniff, just a sniff; that's really all that's required.

I don't usually speak of stink in vain. It's one of the worst things you can do. So my assertion doesn't come without reason. Or three, for that matter.

1. The film, purely by nature of its characters and how they choose to behave (or misbehave), is the kind the Fantastic Farah (Khan, I mean) can, should and probably will, spoof. It's a film - (there are two schools of thought on just that) - of Fred's time (Flintstone, I mean). People, in films, just don't talk like that anymore, react like that anymore, or, most importantly, stink like that anymore.

Closely associated with the essential graph of this three-hour 'film', is the execution of the graph. Here is where one wishes one hadn't taken the anti-flu vaccine. Why?
Smell this: Every emotion that has been depicted has been stretched obscenely. If something is sad, it is incredibly sad. If it's happy, it's incredibly happy. And so, if it's stinky, it's incredibly stinky. And this excessive treatment, in itself, is fine - there is inherently nothing wrong in an effective emotional roller-coster - but that has to be backed by strong writing. The only thing strong in Apne, of course, is the paanch kilo ka haath and the stench emanating from it.
Smell this: The direction is cliched, campy, hackneyed, unintentionally hilarious and stinky, to say the absolute least. Misplaced slow-motion moments, catastrophically cheesy crescendos and Dharmendra's 'I have to be sarcastic to Sunny Bwuoay' face are comic relief. Well, comic.

2. It's all about hating your parents, children, children's wives and grandchildren. A film that professes to stand for placing your 'Apne' above all, smacks every Apne in its sight, and hard. It's a sorry story of a psychotic, self-centered man, whose warped sense of the rightness of things is backed by sickening Punjabi male chauvinism fueled whole-heartedly by women who bathe and get dressed and stop. A man who couldn't care less about his Apne and wants each to get smacked as hard and as quickly as possible. One down, one to go. And when all are down, the loon croons: 'Apne - arr - arr - hrff - arr' - sorry, not a fan of the whole macho, hoarse voice. "But it's from the sons' ponts of view, na!" : Quiet! Then the message becomes: 'No matter how crazy your father is, do exactly what he wants even if it's bad for the whole family AND him, in the long run'. Aww.

Still wondering what to do with the paanch kilo ka haath?

3. Not funny. The two feeble attempts at humour - the 'Ek Joke suna - arrr- hrrff' and the sikh who forgets are not funny. Just stinky. Not funny. Only stinky.

So, all I can say is this: Go, watch Apne. But when you return, take a bath. Coz this baby stinks.