Surgical strike, one year later: Books and film on anvil

September 28, 2017 12:21

It's past midnight. The moon -- just a sliver in the inky sky -- watches as elite commanders billow out of choppers into enemy land. Four hours later, they are back in India, having razed seven terror camps.

Just what the director or the author ordered. The surgical strike -- which the Army executed on the night of September 28 last year, when Indian commanders paratrooped into Pakistan and killed 50 terrorists -- has all the

ingredients that make for a successful potboiler: suspense, action, bravery and patriotism.

The strike that followed a terror attack in an Indian Army camp in Uri in Kashmir has spawned its share of books and films.

Around this time next year, a Hindi film on the subject will be screened in a hall next to you. And two books are already out that delve into the operation.

Tomorrow, Nitin A Gokhale's "In Securing India the Modi Way: Pathankot, Surgical strikes and More" will be launched in the Capital.

"India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes" by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh is another recent literary manifestation of the event, with a chapter devoted to the strike.

The film "Uri", produced by Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP, is to be directed by Adia Dhar and stars actor Vicky Kaushal as a commander, who leads a group of paratroopers across the border, 11 days after a Pakistan-based terror outfit attacked the Uri camp.

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