APNE

Apne is the tale of the Papa, the Puttar and the Chip. That about sums it up. There’s Papa Deol (Dharmendra) as Baldev; ex-boxing champ and there are two ‘puttarjis’; Sunny ‘paaji’ as devoted son Angad, and rocker-musician son Karan (Bobby Deol). And then there’s the chip (it’s not the eating kinds) and it’s the size of Mount Govardhan (don’t know about Mount Govardhan, and attempting to see a film as nauseatingly pious as this?) and perched neatly on Papa’s shoulder. Papa has the chip because, once when he was a boxer and was wrongly accused of doping charges, he swore to avenge his honor by making his son the champ.

However in the interests of family and common-sense, Angad - the son in question, chooses to quit boxing beyond a point and takes up business, thus saving his family from penury. Evidently, Papaji got angry and hasn’t been on good terms with him ever since.

So now the poor Angad, affection starved and all, is doing well, loves his family but longs for his father’s approval. When an opportunity to restore some boxing prestige arises, Baldev chooses Karan to turn boxer (musician to boxer – yeah right?). When Karan suffers a setback, it’s up to Angad again to step up, and wins this prestige.