Major General Amarjeet Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a dedicated officer for the Indian army. His son Lieutenant Commander Vikramjeet Singh (Bobby Deol) follows in his footsteps and joins the navy. In 1971 during the Indo-Pak war and the formation of Bangladesh, Vikramjeet has a ship in his command and was carrying a regiment of soldiers of the Indian Army, commandeered by his dad, Major General Amarjeet. Amarjeet had been ordered to enter East Pakistan to stop the slaughter of innocent civilians at the hands of the Pakistani military forces. It was Shiekh Mujibur Rehman, who had requested the Indian Government led by Indira Gandhi to intervene and help save lives. The ship comes under attack by a submarine of the Pakistani Navy and is damaged beyond salvage by torpedoes. Vikram decides to hunt for the submarine, so that it cannot target the remaining ships in their convoy. Eventually, Vikram is successful in destroying the enemy submarine with depth charges, but his ship sinks along with Vikramjeet, but not before he courageously rescues about a hundred of trapped army soldiers, who were stuck in a passage as the exits were jammed shut. Due to Vikram's sacrifice, the Indian army led by Amarjeet reaches East Pakistan and starts pushing the Pakistani army back. Due to the fast attack from Indian Army on all fronts, the Pakistani army surrenders. Amarjeet returns home where Vikram is survived by his wife and a young son. Years later, Vikramjeet's son Kunaljeet (Bobby Deol) joins the army as a Captain, but he lacks the values his dad and grandfather had in them about serving the country selflessly. He just wants to be employed with the army for a couple of years, then re-locate to the U.S., run a business, and make lots of money. In order to accomplish this, he always makes up excuses of not going to the front. Kunal also cheats to win races or other competitions with his colleagues and has no qualms about it. Dr Sakshi (Sandali Sinha) has feelings for Kunal & tries to be close to him, but he simply ignores her. Sakshi knows that Kunal cheats and is not serious about his army career but keeps quiet due to her love for him. Kunal and his unit are posted in Rajasthan. Kunal is a prankster at heart, but always gets away due to his charm and due to the forgiving nature of his friends who consider his antics as harmless fun. Amarjeet is now retired from the army, but the Government uses his services as a special security advisor in Kashmir to manage the escalating tensions on the ground. Kunal falls in love with Shweta Bhansali (Divya Khosla) and decides to stay in the army in order to be close to her. while Kunal has strong feelings for Shweta, but she does not reciprocate them for Kunal. Shweta reveals that she is the virgin widow of Major Rajeev Singh, who departed for the front on their wedding night, never to return. Rajeev was deployed to the Kargil sector and selflessly sacrificed himself to save his troops from a Pakistani assault & was presumed dead. Kunal still wants to marry Shweta & even her family advises her to do so as Kunal is from a good family. Shweta reluctantly accepts, just as Kunal leaves for Kargil. In Kargil, Kunal is ordered to fight with his company to regain occupation of an important hill. The company attacks but leads to heavy losses. Kunal sees a lot of his friends being gunned down by enemy fire as he remains hidden. He is the last man standing & carries the flag to the summit. He is awarded the Sena medal, but Kunal cannot live down the shame that he acted like a coward & several of his dead comrades were more deserving of the medal. He tells the truth to Amarjeet who is deeply disappointed at this selfish behavior of Kunal. Meanwhile, Major Rajeev Singh (Akshay Kumar), who is assumed to be dead but actually is a prisoner of war. He was captured by Pakistani Col Ashfaque Khan (Danny Denzongpa), who tortures Rajeev endlessly to get crucial information on the Kargil war. Rajeev returns back alive after he challenges Ashfaque to hand-to-hand combat & beats him & then escapes from captivity with his fellow prisoners, with the help from a Pakistani army sympathizer. Upon return, Rajeev takes Shweta home & finds out about Kunal's feelings for Shweta, through a letter that he had written to her in the past. By chance, Kunal is assigned to protect the Amarnath shrine route, under Major Rajeev Singh. In order to achieve a medal, Kunal fakes heroism, then carelessly jeopardizes a planned attack on terrorists and as a result several terrorist escape to their hideouts. Disciplined and chastised, an injured and humbled Kunaljeet awaits to meet his sweetheart - only to find out that she is in love and married to his senior Officer Major Rajeev Singh. The only thread binding Kunal to the army is broken when he finds that Shweta is with Rajeev now. Kunal is heartbroken & confines himself to the field hospital & refuses to take part in combat at the front lines. On the front Amarjeet is working with Rajeev to secure the religious pilgrimage route. It is then Kunaljeet finds out that the terrorists in collusion with rebel Pakistani officers are planning to bomb the Bhagwan Shivji's Amarnath Temple in Jammu & Kashmir in order to ferment communal strife. Due to the breakdown in communication, he is unable to get the message to Rajeev, so Kunal sets off himself to warn Rajeev & Amarjeet. Kunal finds that the terrorists are using a particular horse to get RDX inside the shrine & blow it up. Amarjeet & Rajeev, also figure this out but too late. Kunal reaches just in time to apprehend the RDX from the horse & throws it away from the crowd, where is explodes harmlessly. Kunal is about to die but is saved by his grandfather & all of them fight together to defeat the terrorists. Kunal goes with Dr Sakshi, as he has no other choice.
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