Snow White Mountain Pictures’ Love Nation (UA) is the story of love for one’s nation.
Scientists Milind Sharma (Milind Gunaji) and Armaan (Adeeb) set out to make a missile but soon change tracks and instead decide to make an anti-nuclear weapon to save mankind from the disaster that can be wrought by missiles and nuclear weapons. For this, they seek the support of Vishal (Maviya) who is the son of late scientist Prof. Chandra Shekhar (Deepak Parashar). Incidentally, Prof. Chandra Shekhar had died while making a similar anti-nuclear weapon.
Armaan is in love with Priya (Harshita Panwar). But is Priya really in love with Armaan? If she loves Armaan, why does she steal the formula to make the anti-nuclear weapon from Milind Sharma’s laptop computer? So who is Priya? Do Milind Sharma and Armaan realise their goal of making a weapon to save lives rather than to kill?
Basith Ahmed Khan has written a story which is too big in its ambition but too theoretical and childish otherwise. The screenplay, written by Basith Ahmed Khan, Iqbal Mohammed and Mohammed Raheem, is so ordinary that the entire drama seems contrived and manipulated. The climax is childish — and that’s putting it mildly. The trio’s dialogues are alright at places.
Adeeb looks good but his performance as Armaan is poor. Maviya hardly impresses as Vishal. Sejal Sharma gets very limited scope as Anjali. Harshita Panwar does well as Priya. Milind Gunaji lends fair support as scientist Milind Sharma. Govind Namdev is alright as the home minister. Ashish Vidyarthi has his moments as commissioner Surjit Singh. Dharmendra (as himself), Ehsan Khan (as Armaan’s father), Mushtaq Khan (as Prof. Amarnath) and Deepak Parashar (as Prof. Chandra Shekhar) provide very routine support. Others barely pass muster.
Basith Ahmed Khan’s direction is too ordinary. Manoj Nayan’s music is fair. Lyrics (by Ramchandra M. Pawar, Dr. Moazzam Azam and M.P. Baranwal) are okay. Ganesh Acharya and Kausar Shaikh’s choreography is poor. Ravi Jasraj does an ordinary job of the background music. Najeeb Khan and P. Amar Kumar’s camerawork is average. Action and stunt scenes (Dragon Master, Prakash and Haneef Master) absolutely lack thrill. Raj Kumar’s production designing and Sanjay and Vicky’s art direction are too ordinary to even merit mention. Manoj Sankla’s editing ought to have been crisper.
On the whole, Love Nation is a weak fare with bleak chances at the box-office.
Released on 4-8-’23 at Movie Time Goregaon (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Jai Viratra Entertainment Ltd. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released all over.