LOC: Kargil (2003)

Director:

J.P. Dutta

Writers:

J.P. Dutta (writer)
O.P. Dutta (dialogue)

Release Date:

12 December 2003 (India)

Genre:

Drama | War

Tagline:

Heroes do not choose their destiny, destiny chooses them

Plot:

LOC KARGIL is the story of Indian soldiers fighting in Kargil and being remembered by their family. There is Vikram Batra (Abhishek Bachchan)...

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Bravery | India | Major | Captain

Awards:

2 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Sanjay Dutt	...	Lt Col. Y.K. Joshi, 13 JAK Rifles
Ajay Devgan	...	Lt. Manoj Kumar Pandey, 1 / 11 Gurkha Rifles
Saif Ali Khan	...	Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 17 JAT
Sunil Shetty	...	Sepoy Sanjay Kumar, 13 JAK Rifles
Sanjay Kapoor	...	Maj. Deepak Rampal, 17 JAT
Abhishek Bachchan	...	Lt. Vikram Batra, 13 JAK Rifles
Akshaye Khanna	...	Lt. Balwan Singh, 18 Grenadiers
Nagarjuna Akkineni	...	Maj. Padmapani Acharya, 2 Rajputana Rifles
Ashutosh Rana	...	Yogender Singh
Rani Mukherjee	...	Hema (as Rani Mukherji)
Karan Nath	...	Maj. Rajesh Adhikari, 18 Grenadiers
Manoj Bajpai	...	Gren. Yogender Singh Yadav, 18 Grenadiers
Kareena Kapoor	...	Simran
Raveena Tandon	...	Rampal's wife
Mahima Chaudhry	...	Reena Yadav

Also Known As:

L.O.C. (India: Hindi title) (promotional abbreviation)
Line of Control: Kargil (India: English title) (alternative spelling)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:18

Filming Locations:

Leh, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Trivia:

Real ammunition and weapons were used in this movie. Real Bofors FH-77B artillery were shown but the firing sequences were stock footage.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Capt. Anuj Nayyar, attacks the Pakistani soldiers, it is daytime. But in the next shot it is completely dark.

Quotes:

Lt. Manoj Kumar Pandey: Ask your mother whether you are beautiful or not.

What a waste of good talent and hard-earned cash!

There's nothing new for me to say: 4 hours of people dying over and over in the same hill. The cast was stellar, but unfortunately the producer/director/editor/God goofed. He should have eaten humble pie (if not for his own sake then for the men who died in Kargil), hired one of these brilliant Bollywood directors, hired a real scriptwriter, hired a real editor, hired a musician that wasn't related to him in some way (and who seemed to have listened to some bad version of "Apocalypse Now" on some cheap Indian drug), hired a real professional crew, thrown away all the fireworks and told a real story. Unfortunately he, like the bigwigs of the Indian Army, made decisions that were terrible for his actors, and terrible for his audience. We all died over and over.

Please don't do that again, Sir! Sushma Kathmandu, Nepal

ps: Next time an Indian director decides to glorify the Gurkha regiment, I suggest he hire more than one Nepali to represent the team. Surely there are plenty of Nepali men working in Bombay--last count was 40,000 to half a million.