Santosh Munshi, the son of a local politician and a farmer from Anandpur village, is a social worker at a government run school. Despite getting the education, he hasn’t done well in life as he keeps losing money, marriage after marriage turns out to be a disaster, one of his cousins is a drug-crazed addict and he also faces a growing family crisis. The only consolation is that all these years he has not touched a single penny for the love of his life. The plot here is very typical of all the time-based films being made in the country. The story is about a doting wife and a loving husband and that is all. We’ve been there and done that. Why should we believe that this is all any film writer has to provide us with? If we consider him as a director then this is a very unfortunate film which doesn’t have any kind of logic or drama whatsoever. It has all the usual suspects of genre, drama and action. All the time-based films are often a huge problem for the viewer and a film that is so devoid of any sort of originality or thought is just a waste of time.

Watching The Hero is an experience in itself but there is no entertainment in it. Yes it is interesting to watch a guy on the verge of death but there is no entertainment in it for the viewer. It is not one or the other but just a very long parade of clichés and cliches which just makes the audience bored to death. This is a movie whose main gimmick is to take the audience on an emotional rollercoaster journey all the way through the film and this leads into nowhere except further down the road of the movie. The protagonist is a typical case of the young guy trapped on a deserted island who becomes the hero or villain depending on the mood taken by the audience. The story itself is simply not complex at all. How can people make a hero out of a simple person? This is a shame because in the past few years there are a number of such films which have made an attempt to create a good story out of simple people. All these films have been disappointing.

The Hero was released into theatres only on September 12, 2000.