Border (1997 film)
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| Hindi | बॉर्डर |
| Directed by | J. P. Dutta |
| Produced by | J. P. Dutta |
| Screenplay by | J. P. Dutta |
| Starring |
Sunny Deol Sunil Shetty Akshaye Khanna Raakhee Jackie Shroff Tabbu Pooja Bhatt Kulbhushan Kharbanda Puneet Issar |
| Music by |
Songs: Anu Malik Score: Aadesh Shrivastava |
| Cinematography | Ishwar R. Bidri, Nirmal Jani |
| Edited by | Deepak Wirkud |
| Distributed by | J.P. Films |
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Release date
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13 June 1997 |
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Running time
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177 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office |
₹610 million (US$9.1 million) Original< ₹1,491.1 million (US$22 million) Adjusted |
Border is a 1997 Indian war drama film based on the Battle of Longewala during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, produced and directed by J. P. Dutta. The film starred an ensemble cast of Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Jackie Shroff in pivotal roles. The film is an adaptation from real life events that happened at the Battle of Longewala during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The film was screened retrospective on August 13th 2016 at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating 70th Indian Independence Day. It was the highest grossing Bollywood film of the year 1997.
The film opens before the declaration of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. At a forward operating airbase, Indian Air Force Wing Commander Anand 'Andy' Bajwa, setting his stopwatch, waits for the air raid siren to go. As the siren goes, he sprints towards his MiG-21, armed, fuelled 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he is debriefed by his superior that he and his squadron are assigned to the Jaisalmer sector and have to fly the outdated Hawker Hunter Ground attack planes (with no night vision capabilities) to support the Indian Army. He is soon joined by his brother-in-arms 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 Lieutenant Dharamveer Bhan (Akshaye Khanna) (who happens to be the son of a 1965 Indo-Pakistani War veteran who was killed during that war) and the Company JCO Naib Subedar Mathura Das (Sudesh Berry). The company moves to a remote outpost in the deserts of Rajasthan and begin to expand the rudimentary Border Security Force (BSF) post and does observation of the area up to the international border with Pakistan. They meet the post's BSF commandant Bhairon Singh (Sunil Shetty), a deeply patriotic man who expresses his love for the desert.
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