'When I was working on this story, Vicky was not really in my mind because we had to show the journey from 20 years to 60 years.'
Playing the great general will be a challenge for the talented actor.
Of late, war films -- particularly those that tell stories of the 1971 War and Kargil -- have been produced.
'The failure to remember the martyrs on a grand scale is a national problem. As a nation-State, India time and again fails to honour its true heroes: The men in uniform.'
Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.
During a war, there are just four possibilities a soldier faces. One: Victorious and safe. Two: Wounded. Three: Killed in action. Four: Prisoner of War. It was my fate to face the fourth, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) on the year spent as a prisoner of war in Pakistan during the 1971 War.
