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Insisting that Shershaah doesn’t have jingoistic approach, Sidharth Malhotra says he has tried to do justice to Kargil War hero Captain Vikram Batra’s valour
Sidharth Malhotra in Shershaah
Helmed by Vishnuvardhan, the film celebrates the valour of the Param Vir Chakra awardee, who, at 24, was martyred during the 1999 Kargil War. Malhotra says the team was mindful of not falling into the tropes of a larger-than-life Bollywood movie. "It was a conscious effort to play the character authentically. It would lose its appeal if I portrayed him like a typical hero. The attempt was to make it a part-documentary, part-Hindi film. The idea was to make it close to reality, and yet keep his heroism intact. Even the filmy dialogues used in the trailer are the actual lines that Vikram Batra had said."
Of late, war dramas in Hindi cinema tend to have a jingoistic approach. But the actor insists they have actively steered away from adopting the tone in the Kiara Advani-starrer. "Sandeep Srivastava [writer], Vishnuvardhan, Dharma Productions and I have consciously made an effort that the scenes do not digress from his life story. You cannot sugar-coat war. There [was] a battle; we fought with our neighbouring country, and whatever interactions they had with the enemy are documented. Our attempt is to [evoke] a sense of patriotism or inspiration through Batra's life and his comrades. It has got less to do with the enemy or the politics, and more to do with what went on in the [soldiers'] heads and hearts."
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