Kissan’, a must watch film

Starring Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Jackie Shroff, Diya Mirza, Nauheed Cyrusi and Dalip Tahil, Kissan is Director by Puneet Sira. The release has not been hyped hugely and even many still are not aware of the release
The script carries worth. Cinematography appeals. Daboo Malik’s musical score is spongy.
Kissan, a movie that is inhabit rural Punjab with comforting familiarity and the ambience is conducive to a demonstration of flamboyant emotions.
'Kissan' is more or less a remake of Manoj Kumar’s 1967 hit film 'Upkaar', set in a village the film is about two brothers Sohail and Arbaaz Khan, who look like movie stars inspite of one of them being a farmer.
Dayal Singh (Jackie Shroff) is a widower and a farmer in a village in Punjab. He lives with his two sons – Jigar (Sohail Khan) and Aman (Arbaaz Khan). When someone suggests him to send his son for a higher education to city, he sends Aman while Jigar stays with him back in village. On completion of education, Aman becomes a lawyer whereas Jigar becomes a Kissan (farmer) like his father.
Sohan Seth (Dalip Tahil) an ambitious businessman arrives in Dayal’s village with a plan to set up his mega industrial project. He tries to lure the villagers to sell of their lands to him and offers them good compensation. But once Sohan comes to know that the big hurdle in his way is Dayal since he has big influence on the villagers, he designs a scheme to break his family and his influence on the villagers. What happens next forms the story…
The sequences entice the most like the emotional moments between Jackie and Arbaaz and the ones shot in the darkness of night when Sohail with Sharat Saxena and Vishwajeet Pradhan hunt for the village ruffians responsible for Arbaaz’s wife Diya Mirza’s death.
Jackie Shroff’s meaty role attracts and he does with finesse. Sohail Khan shows his tremendous performance as an actor. Arbaaz Khan seems okay. Diya Mirza looks gorgeous and acts well. Nauheed Cyrusi is impressive. Dilip Tahil enacts the part with aplomb. Rest of the cast does fine as well.
It’s an unabashed celebration of old fashioned melodrama with dollops of bone-crunching action in the last 30 minutes that leaves us wondering if Manoj Kumar ever imagined the fight to hold on to the land could ever get so violent and bloody.
In short, Kissan is like a tall spiced-up glass of lassi, not quite malaai maar ke.