Bhuj: The Pride of India

Bhuj: The Pride of India

The wind was thick with the scent of gunpowder and burning fuel across the barren landscape of Kutch, Gujarat. It was December 1971, and the drums of war between India and Pakistan were beating at their loudest. At the heart of the storm stood the Bhuj Airbase, a vital lifeline for the Indian military. Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik stood on the tarmac, surveying the devastation. Only hours before, a relentless wave of Pakistani fighter jets had unleashed a fury of napalm bombs. The runway—the only path for Indian transport planes to bring in life-saving reinforcements—was obliterated. It was a graveyard of craters and twisted metal. Karnik knew the brutal reality. Without a functional runway, the base was a sitting duck. Pakistani armored divisions were already rolling across the desert, aiming to slice through Gujarat and claim the region. The clock was ticking. They needed to rebuild the runway, and they needed to do it immediately. But there was a massive problem: the local contractors and laborers had fled in terror of the falling bombs. Karnik had the engineers, but he was desperately short on hands. Miles away, another battle was being fought in the shadows. Heena Rahman, an Indian deep-cover spy, was operating inside Pakistan. Living a double life, she risked everything to eavesdrop on military communications. Whispering into hidden radios, she managed to transmit a critical warning back to India: the schedule of the next devastating air raids.

Director

Abhishek Dudhaiya

Release

2021

Run time

113 min

Language

Hindi