![]() ![]() Far from echoing the shrillness some others in Bollywood have supplied in response, Varadhan and Shrivastava have created a film that is unexpectedly restrained despite being set largely on a battlefield. Batra was posthumously awarded India’s highest military honour for war-time valour, the Param Vir Chakra.ĭirector Vishnu Varadhan and writer Sandeep Shrivastava have chosen to chronicle the late Captain’s remarkable life on screen at a time when India is overrun by elements demanding strident proclamations of patriotism from all Indians including artists. The memory of this young soldier who died that year fighting the Pakistan Army in Kargil will forever be associated with his pop-culture-referencing victory signal, “ Yeh dil maange more” (This heart asks for more), borrowing Pepsi’s iconic advertising slogan. ![]() Based on the life of Captain Vikram Batra who was an officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded with the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest and most prestigious award for valour, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War in Kashmir between India and Pakistan.Ĭaptain Vikram Batra’s saga is as fresh in the public imagination as if 1999 was yesterday.
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