Border is an 1997 Indian Hindi-language war film directed, produced and written by J. P. Dutta. Set during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, it is an adaptation of real life events that happened during the Battle of Longewala in 1971. The film stars an ensemble cast of Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Jackie Shroff, Sudesh Berry, Puneet Issar and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. Tabu, Raakhee, Pooja Bhatt and Sharbani Mukherjee feature in supporting roles.
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Border is an 1997 Indian Hindi-language war film directed, produced and written by J. P. Dutta. Set during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, it is an adaptation of real life events that happened during the Battle of Longewala in 1971. The film stars an ensemble cast of Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Jackie Shroff, Sudesh Berry, Puneet Issar and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. Tabu, Raakhee, Pooja Bhatt and Sharbani Mukherjee feature in supporting roles. It was released worldwide on 13 June 1997 with positive reviews from critics and garnered critical acclaim for its story, showing of the battle, direction, screenplay, performances and soundtrack. It is still counted among the top 5 best films of the 1990s. On 15 August 2017, commemorating with the 70th Indian Independence Day, the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense jointly presented the Independence Day Film Festival, where the film was screened retrospectively for its continued cult classical popularity and completion of 20 years. It opened to strong box office results, had a final domestic nett total of ₹394. 5 million and was declared an all-time blockbuster by Box Office India. It also became the highest-grossing Hindi film of 1997 in India, but if according to worldwide, it was the second highest- grossing film of the year behind Dil To Pagal Hai.
It won several awards at different award functions. It received 11 nominations at the 43rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor for Sunny Deal, Best Supporting Actor for Suniel Shetty and Akshay Khanna. The movie won three National Film Awards: Best Film on National Integration, Best Lyricist for Javed Akhtar and Best Playback Singer for Hariharan. One of the film’s songs, \”Sandese Aate Hai\”, sung by Sonu Nigam, became one of the most popular Hindi songs. The song \”Mere Dushman Mere Bhai\” was sung by Harihara and JavedAkhtar wrote the lyrics of the songs. Border is remembered for its highlights, anti-war message, scenes and performances and performances. It has been called one of India’s best films ever and one of its best movies of all time by the Indian Film Institute of India and the All India Institute of Film and Television Studies (AIIFT) The film was mostly shot in Bikaner, Rajasthan and some parts were also filmed in Jodhpur. It opens before the declaration of the war and ends with a brief firefight killing all but one insurgent. The trio gets into a brief fight killing all the insurgents but one but one survives, as he has never killed anyone severely derides him.
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