Why you must watch Om Puri faint ?

In an interview to rediff.com earlier, director Ashwini Chaudhary says, "My hero is the father who fights the bureaucracy to give his dead son his due."Indeed it is.As a grieving father who has lost his only son to the war, as a hapless but stubborn man fighting against the system to honour his son, Puri in the role of Suresh Kapoor, who shines in this film.Puri is ably supported by Revathy, as his wife and heartbroken mother, who makes a comeback to Hindi cinema after almost a decade (her last was Muskurahat in 1992).Gul Panag (Pihu), in her maiden appearance is quite a surprise. With her endearing smile, dimples and expressive eyes doing the emoting, she makes a positive impact in her first cinematic foray.

Dhoop deals with the emotions a family faces after their only son, Captain Rohit Kapoor, perishes in the Kargil war and how they deal with the loss. The movie is based on the life of Captain Anuj Nayyar of 17 Jat, who was killed in the southwest sector of Tiger Hill on July 5, 1999.The father, initially reluctant to send his son off the army, faints when he gets the news.'My wife didn't faint, I fainted' he says, recalling his son calling him a courageous man. The mother is so shocked, she withdraws into a shell. She even blames her husband for taking their son's life since he agreed to send him to the army. And the young fiancé, Pihu, considers herself Rohit's 'widow' and is determined to help Kapoor get justice.

The beginning of the movie deals with the grieving process of the family members. The second half deals with the family deciding to take on the compensation offered by the government. Rohit's mother is initially against the idea as she feels that no offering is enough to 'compensate' for the loss of her son.However, Kapoor is determined to go for it, not for the money, but because it will keep the memory of his son alive.What he is not prepared for is the amount of red tape that they have to face. Determined not to let down his deceased son, Kapoor decides to take on the system, even if it takes a couple of years.