Subedar Joginder Singh (2018)

Original title

ਸੂਬੇਦਾਰ ਜੋਗਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ

Directed by

Simerjit Singh

Genre

war film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 19m

Rated

MA15+

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows Subedar Joginder Singh, a soldier in the Indian army during the 1962 Sino-Indian War. It shows his bravery and sacrifice in battle, which led to him receiving the Param Vir Chakra after his death.

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What happens

Subedar Joginder Singh is a 2018 Indian Punjabi-language biographical war film based on the life of Joginder Singh, an Indian soldier who fought in the 1962 Sino-Indian War and was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra. It is produced by Saga Music and is set to release by 6 April 2018. The film stars Gippy Grewal and Aditi Sharma and is directed by Simerjit Singh who belongs to the same region of Moga where Joginder Singh was born. This movie was a high budget film. The film is authentic to that in the era of 1962. The movie was shot in Suratgarh or Rajasthan which is nearly 100 km from the Indo-Pakistan border, to give a look of the pre-independence village of Punjab. The additional shooting of the movie took place in October 2017 at the Dras sector in Jammu and Kashmir to give real life experience of the Tawang valley during the 1962 war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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