time and again with such films as mera naam joker sanyaasi and shirdi ke saibaba apart from the ones he directed himself yet for all his emotional and cinematic attachment to the country manoj kumar has often found himself a victim of ridicule with critics pointing out the way he has exploited his female characters in films which have otherwise been a hindustani swagger of sorts has it all been braggadocio to a certain extent yes in kranti for instance it is all too clear that manoj kumars shottaking attention has been directed more towards a drenched hema malini and the extras than portraying the actual spirit of revolution that is pardonable though just a slip that cannot discount an imagination which is able to create the character of a onearmed soldier as in roti kapda aur makaan or the taming of a westernismspewing saira bano in purab aur paschim manoj kumar deserves the accolades he has stood by his country and that makes him one of the brave minority