Cast: Mohanlal, Amitabh Bachchan, Ganesh Venkatram
DVD Features:  Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, English Subtitles, NTSC All Regions
Director:   Major Ravi
Music Director:  Shamir Tandon

After Keertichakra and Kurukshetra, Mohanlal and Major Ravi have come out with another popular episode from the life and times of Major Mahadevan in their latest much hyped Kandahar. The film is partly inspired from the controversial Kandahar hijack that took India by storm in 1999.
Scripted and directed by Army officer turned filmmaker Major Ravi, Kandahar is mainly about the emotional conflicts in the minds of a few characters. Of course there are moments when every Indian would feel proud about being born in this great land, but the shaky script, ordinary action sequences and a faulty climax lets the film down.
The entire first half is about the build up to the hijack with an idealistic teacher named Lokanath Sharma (Amitabh Bachchan) supporting his son Soorya (Ganesh Venkitaraman), to become a brave Army commando. There is a parallel track happening where a Muslim woman (played by KPAC Lalitha) painfully realizes that her only son has fallen into the charm of some terrorist outfits.
Both the stories move on parallel lines as Soorya trains in the Indian Military Academy at Dehradoon, while the other guy gets trained to become a ‘Jihadi terrorist’ in Afghanistan!! The story takes some time before the hijack happens, almost all on a sudden. A few terrorists get into an Air India aircraft and forces the hapless pilots to fly the plane with full of passengers on board, to Kandahar in Afghanistan. They demand the release of three dreaded terrorists in order to free those in the plane. Major Mahadevan and his team are now designated to take on the terrorists.