Border (1997 film)
Border is a 1997 Bollywood war drama film based on the IndoPakistani War of 1971. J. P. Dutta directed and produced this war epic which stars Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Jackie Shroff, Tabu, Pooja Bhatt, Puneet Issar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raakhee and Sharbani Mukherjee. It is the highest grossing Indian film of 1997 and when adjusted for inflation holds as the ninth highest grossing Hindi film of the 90s decade.
The film opens before the declaration of the IndoPakistani War of 1971. At a Forward operating Airbase Air force Wing Commander Anand Andy Bajwa, setting his stop watch waits for the Air raid Siren to go. As the siren goes he sprints Towards his MiG21 armed, fueled and Ready for take off. Bajwa and His Air Force wingmen soon take off to an unknown Airbase in Rajasthan. Once there, he is Debriefed by his superior that he amp his Squadron are assigned to the Jaisalmer sector and has to fly outdated Hawker Hunter Ground attack planes with no night vision capabilities to support the Indian Army. He is soon joined by his Brotherinarms Army Major Kuldip Singh Chandpuri played by Sunny Deol as they meet on a courier flight and speak about the possibility of opening of the Western front in light of the East Pakistan conflict. Kuldip takes up command of a company of the 23rd Battalion Punjab Regiment, arguing the light defence being assigned to the military post of Longewala. He meets his second in command 2nd Lt Dharamvir Bhan Akshaye Khanna who happens to be the son of a 1965 IndoPakistaniWar veteran who was killed during that war and the Company NCO Subedar Mathura Das Sudesh Berry. The company moves to the remote outpost in the deserts of Rajasthan and begin to expand the rudimentary Border Security Force BSF post and does a recce of the area up to the international border with Pakistan. They meet the posts BSF commandant Bhairon Singh Sunil Shetty, a deeply patriotic man who expresses his love for the desert.During a night patrol, Kuldip, Dharamvir and Bhairon Singh come across a suspicious bunch of locals who turn out to be insurgents having informed the identities of the company to the Pakistani military. The trio get into a brief firefight killing all but one of the insurgents when Dharamvir hesitates to shoot one of the insurgents, as he had never killed anyone. Kuldip severely derides him and shoots the insurgent himself, prompting Dharamvir to vomit. A badly shak
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