Scene 1:

The soldier tightens his grip on his his U.S M -60.The laser’s from the guns combs the room for any survivors .After his search has been satisfied he moves a few steps ahead towards the door. He holds his fist in the air indicating the rest to stop. Then he whispers into his COMM kit

We need to blow this door. Somebody hand me the RDX stick.

The soldier goes up to the door, place the RDX stick on the door, moves few steps back and then blows up the door. He leads the rest others through that doorway

Scene 2

The Soldier discovers the enemy’s bunkers located at a distance of 500m from their location. He yells out the name of a few deities as war-cries. This bolsters the morale of his fellow soldiers who start running haphazardly towards the enemy without caring for their life.A few get blown up by a land mine and a few by 

their cries(:p Seriouslyy ).

I was watching Zero Black Thirty from which the Scene 1 was taken and while watching the movie I was reminded of the film LOC which is depicted by scene 2. Although both films are on  different aspects of warfare and depict different countries yet it left me thinking about how films in India made on Army operations are on any Defence operation are in nowhere any match  to those made outside India. So I tried to think a couple of reasons behind it.

1.For one we have been a peace loving country. Although our neighbours have been constant pest but we tend to ignore them and this is the reason why we have only a few tactical operations of fame. So our filmmakers have very less content to inspire them. Yet this reasoning is faulty because we have operations like BLUE STAR at Golden Temple Amritsar, Operation Vijay during the 1999 Kargil war and the recent storming of the Taj hotels by the NSG. The recent film on the attacks of 26/11 at Mumbai was a pure disaster with characters failing to do justice to the film. Zero Black Thirty based on the build up and the actual operation to eliminate Osama bin laden is a joy to watch as you can get involved in their operation and realize how it had actually gone down that faithful night. Kudos to the director.

2.I believe in India we are kind od more excited by the concept of a guy leaving his home leaving behind his family , singing a couple of songs and then getting killed in an heroic manner and then his family left wailing for them. There is very less time left for any kind of description of actual thing. So we end up having important scenes or build ups cut out of the main film story. Why  can’t we cut the crap and get to the real thing. In a movie called Black Hawk Down there was no depiction of soldiers leaving their homes and singing songs of their loved ones .It was about the bravery of the soldiers and how they managed to pull of a operation in dire circumstances. The film was about an operation and how the situation made people into heroes rather then being about songs that would stay at the no1 in the music charts

3.A part of the blame lies with the actor/actresses portraying a particular role. They need to do a significant amount of R&D before they begin to shoot for a film. They need to get into the role of a particular person. you need to be particularly familiar about how a soldier moves, acts in a given situation and moreover the way he speaks. A soldier repeatedly giving abuses leaves a bad impression on many of those who are watching

Its is important to get the plot and the act right because these are replicas of what actually  happened in a particular event, it is a way of giving respect to people who have fought and laid their lives for others. These films act as an inspiration for many others ,so it is important that we get the message right and  propagate it through the society