Salman's Bharat An Official Remake Of Ode To My Father

Updated : July 09, 2018 05:41 PM IST

Bollywood film ‘Bharat’ starring Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra is an official remake of the third highest grossing South Korean in the history of Korean cinema film ‘Ode To My Father’.

Ode To My Father was directed by Yoon Je-Kyun starring Hwang Jung-Min as Yoon Deok-Soo, Yunjin Kim as Yong-Ja, and Oh Dal-Su as Dal Goo.

Ode To My Father is a story of the life of a man named Yoon Deok-Soo who goes through the time period of 1950s Hungnam Evacuation that happened amid Korean War and then further struggling through other major events like financial crisis forcing people to go to West Germany as nurses and miners and also the Vietnam War

Ode To My Father basically is a portrayal of the modern Korean history.

The film starts with an elderly Deok-Soo with his wife and his children leaving their kids with Deok-Soo and his wife so that they can have a family outing. The story then goes on with flashbacks of Deok-Soo’s life from his childhood when he was among the thousands of refugees who were being transported south, from what was to become North Korea, by US Navy boats during the 1950s Korean War’s Hungnam Evacuation.

While struggling to board the ship, Deok-Soo loses his sister, Mak-Soon in the crowd, so, Deok-Soo’s father stays to search for Mak-Soon. He makes the young Deok-Soo promise to take care of the rest of the family and become the head of the household. The family stays at Deok-Soo’s aunt in Busan.

From a young age, Deok-Soo starts to do odd jobs in order to earn for his family. Deok-Soo then travels to West Germany along with his friend, Dal Goo during 1960’s in order to earn money by mining coal. His struggle to earn money for his brother’s fees for Seoul National University engages him in dangerous work in German coal mines.

Deok-Soo falls in love with nurse Young-Ja Germany who is also a migrant like him but an accident in the coal mine and migrant visa getting expired, Deok-Soo goes back to Korea. He asks Young-Ja to go along but she refuses.

When Young-Ja returns to Korea, she tells Deok-Soo that she is pregnant with his child, they, then, get married.

When Deok-Soo overhears his sister’s conversation with his mother of having a big wedding, he decides to leaves Korea for the Vietnam War in the 1970s to earn money to buy the imported goods store his uncle decided to sell after the death of his aunt. Deok-Soo’s mother and wife do not agree with him for his decision but he somehow manages to convince them assuring his safe return. He goes to war-torn Vietnam along with Dal-Goo. Deok-Soo gets shot in his leg when he was helping the villagers to escape from the Viet Cong.

He returns to Korea with a lame leg, and he and his wife start to run the store. In 1983, South Korean TV programs, where relatives separated during the Korean War were being reunited, contact Deok-Soo to be featured in one of those shows when they find a man who seems to be Deok-Soo’s father. But they realize that they are not father and son. Soon the same TV program contacts Deok-Soo when they find a Korean-American woman who may be Deok-Soo’s sister Mak-Soon. She was adopted by an American family during the war. The woman turns out to be his sister and the family reunites but soon Deok-Soo’s mother passes away.

The last scene of the film shows an elderly Deok-Soo with his wife where he decides to sell the store which he had kept despite being in a loss. He kept the store as his father had promised him to reunite with the rest of his family at the store during Hungnam Evacuation. He realizes that his father must now be too old to come.

So, now let’s talk about Bharat. As the film is an adaptation of Ode To My Father which is based on the Korean history surrounding war and sufferings of people, Bharat, probably, will focus on the Indian history, starting around the time of partition and giving many other historical references throughout the film.