War movies have proved to be the weakest point of the Bollywood filmmakers owing to their uncanny obsession with바카라 웹사이트masala, melodrama, and all other familiar tropes. And yet, they are not ready to give up.
Since the genre holds unfathomable possibilities both in terms of creativity and commercial returns, several movies based on successive wars in recent history -- from the 1962 Indo-China war to the 1999 Kargil battle -- have been made down the years but Chetan Anand라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트Haqeeqat (1964) remains arguably the best war movie ever made by the Hindi film industry yet.
Movies like J.P. Dutta라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트Border바카라 웹사이트(1997), based on the Battle of Longewala during the 1971 war and Aditya Dhar라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트Uri: The Surgical Strike바카라 웹사이트(2019), on India라이브 바카라 surgical strikes on the terror camps in Pakistan in 2016, turned out to blockbusters, largely because of the themes of chest-thumping jingoism. But바카라 웹사이트Haqeeqat,바카라 웹사이트Anand라이브 바카라 black and white classic on the India-China war has been widely acknowledged to be far more realistic than any of the war movies made in the Eastmancolor era.
Anand, however, could not replicate his success when he attempted another movie,바카라 웹사이트Hindustan Ki Kasam바카라 웹사이트(1973) on the India-Pakistan war, which marked the debut of Amjad Khan in a small role, long before he became famous as Gabbar Singh of바카라 웹사이트Sholay바카라 웹사이트(1975).
Anand also made a TV serial,바카라 웹사이트Param Vir Chakra바카라 웹사이트for Doordarshan in the late 1980s, depicting the exemplary valour of the recipients of the country라이브 바카라 highest military honour in successive wars.바카라 웹사이트
Still, only a few war movies have struck a chord with the audiences. J.P. Dutta라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트Border바카라 웹사이트became a huge hit but he failed to recreate his magic in his next two war movies,바카라 웹사이트LOC: Kargil바카라 웹사이트(2003) based on ‘Operation Vijay’ of the Indian Army during the Kargil war and바카라 웹사이트Paltan바카라 웹사이트(2018), on the Nathu La and Cho La clashes with the Chinese army along the Sikkim border in 1967.
In recent times, the success of바카라 웹사이트Uri: The Surgical Strike바카라 웹사이트has made war movies one of the hottest trends in Bollywood, but most of them appear to be the biopics of war heroes. On August 12, Amazon Prime Video라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트Shershaah, a biopic on the Kargil war hero Captain Vikram Batra, a Paramvir Chakra awardee, is set to stream on the OTT platform.
Produced by Dharma Productions of Karan Johar,바카라 웹사이트Shershaah바카라 웹사이트stars Siddharth Malhotra in the lead. Karan has also produced two other war movies,바카라 웹사이트Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트(2020) and바카라 웹사이트The Ghazi Attack바카라 웹사이트(2017) in the past.
Shershaah바카라 웹사이트was supposed to release in July 2020 but the Coronavirus pandemic forced the makers to postpone it. Incidentally, Ajay Devgn라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트Bhuj: The Pride of India바카라 웹사이트too will release on August 13 on Disney-Hotstar+. apparently to cash in on the all-pervasive mood of patriotism during the Independence Day week. Devgn is said to be playing Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot squadron leader Vijay Karnik of the 1971 Indo-Pak war in the film.
It will be interesting to see how these two films fare on the OTT platforms where several movies of big stars have had no takers in the past few months. In any case, war movies made on an epic scale with great visuals are widely considered to be an ideal material for the big screen. But both the movies had to skip the theatrical route due to prolonged uncertainties over the reopening of the multiplexes across the country.
In the next few months, many war biopics are set to hit the screens, both small and big. Vicky Kaushal, who made ‘How is the josh’ a popular catchphrase with바카라 웹사이트Uri; The Surgical Strike바카라 웹사이트is playing Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, the hero of the Bangladesh war, in a Meghna Gulzar film while Varun Dhawan will portray another 1971 war hero Arun Khetarpal, the youngest recipient of Param Vir Chakra, in a Sriram Raghvan film. Actress Kangana Ranaut, too, is portraying an Air Force pilot in the upcoming바카라 웹사이트Tejas.바카라 웹사이트
The main problem with Bollywood라이브 바카라 war movies is that its screenwriters tend to take too many cinematic liberties while adapting real events, hoping to boost the commercial prospects but they invariably end up distorting the facts. Last year, Jahnvi Kapoor-starrer바카라 웹사이트Gunjan Saxena바카라 웹사이트was in the eye of a storm after the Indian Air Force objected to a few scenes in the film.
Bollywood would do well to remember that a war hero such as Vikram Batra deserves a befitting biopic. It is altogether a different matter that given its proclivity for overdramatization, it will be too optimistic to expect movies like바카라 웹사이트Shershaah바카라 웹사이트or for that matter,바카라 웹사이트Bhuj: The Pride of India바카라 웹사이트to become the바카라 웹사이트Haqeeqat바카라 웹사이트of our times.바카라 웹사이트
