The 1971 India-Pakistan War, through Border. On Throwback Thursday
India TodayMajor Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, commander of a Company of the Indian Army's 23rd Battalion, Punjab Regiment, had a difficult choice before him on the night of December 3, 1971. And that's where JP Dutta's magnum opus Border and the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 converge - at the Battle of Longewala. Watch the trailer of Border here: BORDER, LESS WAR, MORE MELODRAMA JP Dutta's Border, for us, 90s kids, is a little capsule of nostalgia. In this ensemble cast, we followed the lives of Major Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, Border Security Force Commandant Bhairon Singh, 2nd Lieutenant Dharamvir Bhan, Subedar Ratan Singh, Wing Commander Anand Bajwa, among others, in a build-up to war. WhIle Border borrowed from a very well-known chapter of history, the Battle Of Longewala, Raazi dived into the footnotes of the book of the 1971 War, so to speak.
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