'LoC
Kargil',
another
war
film
"Life
is
beautiful,
war
is
ugly".
No
one
else
can
portray
the
sentiment
better
than
filmmaker
JP
Dutta,
whose
latest
war
epic
"LoC
Kargil"
is
set
for
a
winter
release.
The
film
has
a
record
number
of
24
main
lead
actors,
including
Bollywood
heavyweights
Sanjay
Dutt,
Suneil
Shetty,
Abhishek
Bachchan,
Akshaye
Khanna,
Manoj
Bajpai,
Saif
Ali
Khan,
Nagarjuna
and
Ashutosh
Rana.
Kareena
Kapoor,
Raveena
Tandon,
Rani
Mukherjee,
Mahima
Choudhry,
Esha
Deol,
Namrata
Shirodkar,
Isha
Koppikar
and
Divya
Dutta
vie
with
each
other
in
the
roles
of
heroines.
The
film
is
based
on
the
1999
India's
stand-off
with
Pakistani
intruders
in
Kashmir.
"LoC
Kargil"
presents
how
the
conflict
changed
the
lives
of
every
Indian.
Nearly
500
Indian
soldiers
died
on
the
snow-capped
peaks
of
Kargil
region
in
the
campaign
to
oust
hundreds
of
fighters
who
crossed
into
Indian
territory
from
Pakistan
in
the
summer
of
1999.
Over
2,900
rounds
of
artillery
shells
landed
on
the
Indian
side
between
July
20
and
July
25.
The
face-off
in
the
Kargil
mountains
nearly
brought
nuclear-
capable
India
and
Pakistan
to
the
brink
of
their
fourth
full-
scale
war.
Dutta's
previous
two
films
"Border"
and
"Refugee"-
both
based
on
Indo-Pak
wars,
created
waves
in
the
mainstream
entertainment
sector.
As
"LoC
Kargil"
races
towards
release,
50-year-old
Dutta
seems
determined
to
weather
all
storms.
Dutta
justified
the
huge
star
cast,
saying
it
gelled
with
the
story
line.
"The
involvement
of
the
Indian
army
in
Kargil
war
was
to
the
tune
of
45,000
men.
When
you
are
talking
of
the
war
which
involved
45,000
men
mobilised
in
Kargil,
I
mean
I
have
not
even
used
one
percent
of
the
actors
or
the
characters
I
am
depicting
in
this
film,"
he
said
at
the
music
release
function
of
the
film
in
Mumbai.
Dutta
said
his
film
was
a
tribute
to
the
heroes
of
the
limited
war.
Made
with
a
mega-budget
of
400
million
rupees,
"Line
of
Control"
was
shot
entirely
in
Ladakh
region.
The
film
made
news
earlier
this
year
when
two
members
of
the
unit
died
of
cardiac
arrest
during
the
shooting
in
the
high
altitiude
area.
India's
first
war
film
"Haqeeqat",
based
on
the
war
with
China,
was
shot
entirely
in
Ladakh
in
difficult
conditions
in
1964.
"LoC
Kargil"
has
the
lead
actors
playing
the
real-life
characters,
a
few
of
them
who
were
even
awarded
for
their
heroics
on
the
war
front.
Divya
Dutta,
who
plays
the
wife
of
Grenadier
Yogendra
Singh
Yadav,
who
won
an
Ashok
Chakra
posthumously,
said
there
was
no
competition
among
the
actors
during
the
film's
shoot.
"This
film
is
a
tribute
to
the
soldiers
who
are
on
in
the
frontlines.
Then
in
this
film
there
are
many
heroes.
Every
hero
felt
that
he
is
portraying
a
soldier.
There
was
no
compeitive
feeling
among
the
actors
as
they
knew
that
the
film
was
being
made
for
a
cause,"
said
Dutta.
Like
heroes,
heroines
in
the
film
are
the
driving
forces
behind
the
men
fighting
on
the
battlefield.
Most
of
actresses
involved
agreed
that
it
was
JP
Dutta's
vision
that
made
them
do
roles
of
glorified
extras
in
the
film.
The
main
actresses
in
the
film
are
Kareena
Kapoor,
Esha
Deol,
Rani
Mukherjee,
Divya
Dutta,
Raveena
Tandon,
Isha
Koppikar,
Akansha,
Mahima
Chaudhary
and
Preeti
Jhangiani.
The
film
has
music
by
Anu
Malik
and
lyrics
have
been
penned
by
Javed
Akhtar.
Malik
had
won
a
national
award
for
his
score
in
"Refugee".
Critics
say
the
music
of
the
film
enchantingly
depicts
various
shades
of
war,
bonding
among
soldiers
and
patriotic
fervour.
"People
would
definitely
compare
it
with
Refugee
and
Border.
I
won
the
national
award
for
Refugee.
But
today
I
would
say
that
those
people
have
heard
the
music
say
'well
this
is
one
of
your
best
music'
and
they
are
surprised
that
'you
came
up
with
such
a
good
score',"
said
Malik.
The
film
has
five
songs,
two
of
them
being
of
13
minutes.
Indian
patriotic
films
have
better
success
rate
than
romantic
and
action
films.
Recent
films
like
"Border",
"Maa
Tujhe
Salaam",
"Gadar",
"The
Hero"
and
"Zameen"
have
ruled
the
box-office
for
months.
More
patriotic
and
war
films
like
Farhan
Akhtar's
"Lakshaya",
Raj
Kumar
Santoshi's
"Ab
Tumhare
Havale
Watan
Saathiyon"
and
Gurang
Doshi's
"Deewar"
are
set
for
an
year-end
release.
