Border

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Border is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language epic war film written, produced and directed by J. P. Dutta. The film stars Sunny Deol in the leading role, alongside an ensemble cast including Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, and Akshaye Khanna. The movie also features Puneet Issar, Sudesh Berry, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Tabu, Pooja Bhatt, Rakhee Gulzar, Sharbani Mukherjee, Sapna Bedi, and Rajiv Goswami in pivotal roles. Set during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, the film is based on the events of the Battle of Longewala, a major engagement fought in the western sector of the conflict. Sunny Deol portrays Major Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, the Indian Army officer who led a company of Indian soldiers, tasked with defending Longewala against a large-scale Pakistani offensive. Border was Dutta's dream project. He had begun working on the film's script in September 1995 and completed it by April 1996. The film was mostly shot in Bikaner, Rajasthan. Some parts were also filmed in Jodhpur. The background score of the movie was composed by Aadesh Shrivastava. Javed Akhtar penned the lyrics of the songs while Anu Malik composed the music for the songs. One of the film's songs, "Sandese Aate Hai", sung by Sonu Nigam and Roop Kumar Rathod, became one of the most popular Hindi songs of all time. The popularity of the song led several directors to offer Nigam for singing in their film's songs. The song "Mere Dushman Mere Bhai" was sung by Hariharan. The film was released worldwide on 13 June 1997 with overwhelming positive reviews from critics and garnered critical acclaim for its story, execution, scale, showing off the battle, direction, screenplay, performances and soundtrack. It was declared an All Time Blockbuster by Box Office India. It also became the highest-grossing Hindi film of 1997 in India. Border was the fourth biggest blockbuster...