The maker of the best war based
films no one can forget his best ever war film in bollywood ‘Border’ Mr. J. P.
Dutta is gearing up for another action with two war films of which one will be
an international project.
J.P. Dutta is making on an
international scale for a global audience. This is inspired by the Battle of
Saragarhi fought before the Tirah Campaign on September 12, 1897, when 21 Sikhs
of the 36th Sikh of British India defended an army post against 10,000 Afridi
and the Orakzai tribesmen in the North-West Frontier Province, now in Pakistan.
"Since the story touches on the relationship between the Sikh soldiers and
the British officers commanding the battalion, I need a huge British
involvement, an international cast and crew. I've spoken to Hugh Dancy, the
Hannibal TV star, and Remi Adefarasin, the cinematographer of Shekhar Kapur's
Elizabeth and Steven Speilberg's mini-series Band of Brothers. I am in the
midst of working on the logistics carefully before I can kickstart this project
as it is very big scale. It can only take off after the other film,"
admitted Dutta. He is frequently visiting UK to lock the actors, supporting
actors and the technicians from abroad.
Whereas the other film Dutta sir
is working on is about the 1962 Indo-China War which is expected to roll in
September in Ladakh and wrap up by November end. The film will feature biggies
from the bollywood. The filmmaker says "I make realistic films so I want
to stick to the time frame of the real war and shoot in real locations,"
pointing out that he has three scripts cleared by the Ministry of Defence on
the three wars that were fought in '62, '65 and '71. This film will have biggies of bollywood
associated.
Way to look forward.
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