JP Dutta has made some of the biggest and grandest films of Hindi Cinema. In 2003, he assembled nearly 55 actors in one frame for his giant drama, LOC Kargil, arguably the largest ensemble in Hindi movie history. We are here to talk about his most successful and remembered film, Border, which came out on June 13, 1997. That was the era when social media hadn-t taken over, so there was no one to pinpoint the tone and language of the film and how it could pander to the emotion of chest-thumping nationalism, which drives most of the films of this genre today.

In the good old days, Dutta knew how to press the right buttons and trigger the right dose of patriotism amongst the audience and carefully ensuring the material isn-t dumbed down. He chose to tell the story of the 1971 Indo-Pak war and infused the narrative with the kind of drama one needs to make films of such nature work. The four principal characters that drove the film were Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, and Sudesh Berry. They all had their own personal turmoils, family issues, and emotional psyches.