‘Pippa’: Mrunal Thakur And Ishaan Khatter Starrer Film Teaser Out

On the occasion of the 75th Independence Day, on Monday, the teaser of the upcoming Hindi army based film Pippa starring Mrunal Thakur and Ishaan Khatter was released. The film is slated to have a theatrical release on December 2 this year.

“Most wars and battles are fought for the wrong reason, this epic story & war movie is about liberating a nation - This Independence Day - Block the date of 2nd December 2022 to watch #PIPPA and here is a teaser,” tweeted the makers of the film.

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The upcoming film is based on one of the biggest wars, the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971. It was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that took place during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from December 3, 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December the same year. The war began after Pakistan's preemptive ariel strikes on 11 of India’s air bases. Following which, India’s then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared war on Pakistan. This war continued for 13 days after which the Pakistani military surrendered in Dhaka and December 16 was marked as the day Bangaladesh (east Pakistan) came out as a new nation.

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Pippa, however, focuses on Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who fought on the eastern front during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war along with his siblings. Khatter is playing the role of the Brigadier.

The teaser begins with the whole nation including the Indian military and Soni Razdan listening to Indira Gandhi on the radio declaring the war due to the air strikes by Pakistan. It further features Katter motivating his squad during the war cry and saying that in entire history no war has been fought to free another country, but, this is our opportunity to write history.

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Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, Pippa is written by Menon and Balram Singh Mehta himself based on his book The Burning Chaffees: A Soldier's First-Hand Account of the 1971 War.

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The film also stars Piyanshu Painyuli, Soni Razdan, Leyson Karimova, Chandrachoor Rai, Amita Ghosh, Waris Ahmed Zaidi and Abhinav Bhattacharya in pivotal roles. Pippa is produced by Ronnie Screwvala under his home banner and Siddharth Roy Kapur, the makers of the Aamir Khan starrer 2006 Hindi film Rang De Basanti,Vicky Kaushal starrer 2019 Hindi film Uri: The Surgical Strike and Akshay Kumar starrer 2016 Airlift. While A R Rahman gave music for the film.