Lakshya (also known as Objective) is a 2004 Bollywood film directed by Farhan Akhtar. It stars Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri and Boman Irani. Roshan plays the role of Lieutenant (later Acting Captain) Karan Shergill, who leads his team to victory over the terrorists. It is a fictional story based on the historical events of the 1999 Kargil Conflict.

Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother, who run the family business. All Karan does is have fun with his buddies and romance a woman named Romi. When he watches an action movie, he and his friends decide to enlist in the army, but the course proves to be too much of a bother and he abandons it half way, thus making his lose respect on the home front. Romi also stops respecting him. Now Karan decides that he must re-join the army and show to his family and Romi that he too is focused about path he has to take in this lifetime. But will he be resilient enough to carry out this task? Written by Sumitra (corrected by Calista)

It is the year 1999 and Karan Shergill (Hrithik Roshan) has been recently posted in the Siachen region of Kashmir, near the Indo-Pak border. As he bonds with his fellow officers and gets to know more about the region under their supervision, he reminisces about his previous life: how, as a good-for-nothing youngster, he had become a black sheep of their family, how he had took the entrance exam for Indian Military Academy purely out of a whim, how the harsh training had caused him to run away and return home, and how the decision had resulted into a breakup with his girlfriend Romila "Romi" Dutta (Preity Zinta) and how he had returned to the Academy, finished his training and emerged a winner. But there isn't much time left to dwell upon the past, as terrorists have crossed the Line Of Control and occupied a few key peaks to serve as attack points. The Indian Defense retaliates and thus begins Operation Vijay, a mission to reclaim the terrorist-captured points before it is too late. Karan is thrown amidst heated battle to capture an important peak, and he knows it very well that this might just be a great chance to serve his country and look the world in its face. Written by Soumitra

It was in 1947 during the British sponsored India-Pakistan partition that the Shergill family were forced to flee their palatial home in Lahore and re-locate to a one-room unit. It was here that Mr. Shergill made the decision that he will never let such troubled times touch his family, he toiled day and night, ran a business, and moved into more spacious surroundings, only to have his parents pass away without having to enjoy the fruit of his labor. Now Shergill has two sons, Udesh and Karan, while Udesh has taken up the family business, Karan is a slacker, with no motivation to do anything. He loves Romila Dutta (Romi) and hopes to marry her someday. Then one day while watching a Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, he decides to enlist in the Indian Military Academy, much to his parents' shock and surprise. Karan's tryst with the military does not last long, and he deserts, but when he finds out that his parents and his brother have no respect for him and they were expecting him to return home, he decides to return to the military. Years later, Karan and Romi meet. He is now Acting Captain in the Indian Military, a man with a mission, to climb Peak 5179 and host the Indian Tricolor there by any means, while Romi is now a correspondent for Global News - engaged to be married to a businessman named Manish Kunj. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Karan Shergill is a college student, who has no ambition or direction for his life. He does not have any plan in his mind for his future. He is an aimless youth who is not sure where he should pursue his career. One moment he wants to do MBA from US, the other moment he thinks of joining the army. Finally, he fills the form to join the army, but is hesitant again, until his father thrashes him, which makes him go ahead with his decision. He regrets this as soon as his training starts in the INA, and he runs away. Back at home, although he is welcomed by his parents, he is lambasted by Romilla for not sticking to his decision. Devastated, he returns to the Academy and gives his best. He is sent to the border when the war with Pakistan breaks, and then he gets his ambition for his life, to save the peak 5179, which has been captured by militants. But his problems are doubled when Romilla reaches there as a reporter, already betrothed to someone else. Karan has to fight at two frontiers.... Written by Rohit Pandey