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Sam Bahadur
Premise
Sam Bahadur is a tribute to India's first Field Marshal and a legendary Army General, Sam HFJ Manekshaw, MC. From the Burma campaign during World War II, the Sino-Indian War, to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 that created Bangladesh, his illustrious career shaped India's borders. The film chronicles the dynamic life of this no-nonsense Officer, also known as 'Sam Bahadur' by the soldiers he led.
Cast
Cast
- Vicky Kaushal as field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
- Sanya Malhotra as Silloo Manekshaw, Sam's wife
- Fatima Sana Shaikh as Indira Gandhi
- Neeraj Kabi as Jawaharlal Nehru
- Aanjjan Srivastav as Yashwantrao Chavan
- Edward Sonnenblick as Lord Mountbatten
- Govind Namdev as Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Yahya Khan
- Naiyo Ishida as Army General
- Jaskaran Singh Gandhi as Sepoy Mehar Singh
- Bobby Arora as Major O. S. Kalkat
- Rajiv Kachroo as Hormusji Manekshaw
- Ed Robinson as Lt. D.A.D. Eykyn
- Jeffrey Goldberg as Henry Kissinger
- Krishnakant Singh Bundela as Subedar Gurbaksh Singh
- Keiichi Ando as Army general
- Keita Arai as Army General
- Monuj Borkotoky as Assam Rifles Major
- Paul O'Neill as Major General David Cowan
- Ravi Sharma as Abdul Hamid Khan, General of Pakistan
- Richard Bhakti Klein as Ambassador Kenneth Keating
- Richard Maddison as Lt. Col. Donnie Edwards
- Sammy Jonas Heaney as Captain McLaren
- Rohan Verma as Captain Attiqur Rehman
- Upen Chauhan as Tikka Khan
- Prajesh Kashyap as Haji Iftikhar[9]
Production
Development
In 2017 Meghna Gulzar narrated the story of the biopic on Sam Manekshaw on the sets of Raazi which she planned to make her next film. Kaushal impressed by the idea decided that he would play the character. She then went for years of extensive research and writing collaborating with Bhavani Iyer and Shantanu Srivastava, also meeting with family members of Sam Manekshaw. The film marks the second collaboration between Gulzar and Kaushal. In 2021, the film was announced by RSVP Movies on the 107th birth anniversary of late Sam Manekshaw.