Yes, it martyrs. Except for a few songs which come on when…well, the going gets tough, there are no digressions, no stopover in this exceptional revisitation into a chapter of India’s border-strife history, some call it war, which we would rather bury under the rubble of recency. Some would say, the past is the past. And in their own way, they are right. We can’t build new bridges unless we leave the past behind.

But here is the thing: unless we take a deep look at our past heroes, men(and women too, though in this case they are exempted from war-mongering) who gave up their lives for us, we cannot hope to ensure the future for generations to come. The future must by its very nature be built on the grave of our heroes. At the end after Param Vir Chakra winner Shaitan Singh is martyred—thi

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