I Proud to Be an Indian
I Proud to Be an Indian
| 13 February 2004 (USA)
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Indian (Sohail Khan), or I, as he goes by, is distraught when he must move to London with his father in order to live with the rest of his family, who have been living in England for a while. Once there, I begins to realize that many of the minority families are being bullied by white skinheads, and he decides he must get involved in order to stop the cycle of hatred.

Reviews
Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
cadrnayak very authentic nice direction by punit issar and an awesome patriotic feeling the movie starts with a great feeling in India. and there goes a bang on voyage of a person to fight for the honor of his country. and his life there changes suddenly. the movie is to quote the sacrifices made by INDIANS by moving on to another country. but while directing the movie it was also taken care that no outsider feeling is hurt. the person who portray image of a villain was not a normal person. and so he can not be considered as an outsider. and so the counter balancing part in a movie is an attention seeker thanks to ALL the crew member for giving such a nice movie to Indian cinema.when i watched this movie first time. i was really amazed, great acting. great direction and every thing above the mark.
springsunnywinter Finally there is a film based on an old topic, racism. I'm from the UK and there is isn't much racism as it's been shown in the film but there still is. The film was made so well and shows that Asians & blacks not only get harmed physically but also emotionally e.g. there things get broken or thrown away & eggs thrown on there face. The movie started off really interesting when the Sikh couple arrived at there bus stop late at night and where chased by the skinheads. During their funeral I felt really sorry for the victim's father when he said that his son's face has been cut so badly that he couldn't recognise him. In the scene when the boy's head was shaved and covered in flour, the suspense was killing me when he arrived at home panting and everyone were shockingly looking at him one at a time and I didn't have a clue that what did the skinheads did to him. The fight in the end was the best scene in the film because Sohail Khan was beaten-up very badly and we thought that he was finished but then his father animated him and he defeated Kane, on top of all that he was also arrested for murder. Sohail Khan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and the actors who played Aslam Firoz & Kane were the best throughout the whole film.
vebkumar I would preface my review by saying that out of the 3 stars that I rated this movie, 2 would be solely for being somewhat original. The unfortunate circumstance that plagues the Indian movie industry is that most movies thrown at the mainstream are, more often than not, copies (to varying degrees) of foreign (mostly Hollywood) movies. Having finished anything good that I had to say about this movie, let's continue with why this movie is bad.Firstly, the worst part of the movie was the end. It was terribly cheesy and melodramatic and extremely disappointing. It was especially disheartening that after 9/10ths of the movie tried to portray the contemporary problem of racism (though the authenticity of the manner in which they have portrayed it is questionable), the end is probably the furthest they could have taken you from providing a practical solution. This is unfortunately very typical of Bollywood, where melodramatic, half-baked stories are thrown to the masses with a veil of some sort of social activism / awakening, but very predictably ending in an anti-climax.Secondly, it provides a very uni-dimensional view of racism. It reminded me, amusingly, of old westerns where the good cowboys wore white hats and the bad ones wore black. This film suffers from a terribly oversimplified notion of racism. It's a little too black-and-white. (If you want to see a better movie about skinheads watch 'This is England' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480025/).Thirdly, though the acting is not as atrocious as it could be, given the cast, it is definitely not anything notable. The lead actor as others have observed can be said to have improved from his earlier work, but has still a looooong way to go before he can be said to be a good actor.Fourthly, the camera work was also nothing great. One reviewer remarked that this movie was good because it had "No awkward pauses or abrupt scenes" - true, but is that really an achievement that one should credit a professional with?! Isn't that the basic minimum one should expect from a film-maker?! On the other hand, I wished that there was better camera work when they covered parts such as the graffiti on the walls, which proved to be quite unreadable.All in all, this film is quite shoddy, and makes a mess of an otherwise pertinent issue. I would say don't waste your time watching it.
ktcutie19-1 It was deff a good movie. I was sad to see Aslam die.. he was so cute ! but deff a good movie. No awkward pauses or abrupt scenes. The songs.. i would say weren't too great. However the overall movie was great and sohil khan is deff a great actor. Hands down, he has improved a bunch and will continue to succeed. though the movie contains numerous new actors, never do you ever feel annoyed by their acting. everyones acting from sohils to the little kid amans are great. i would deff suggest this movie to anyone that is Indian and is unaware of the skinheads. hopefully the issue isn't as serious anymore and people are able to live peacefully. everyone should watch this movie