L.A.C. Battle of Galwan is a 2025 Hindi language Indian war film directed by Nitin Kumar Gupta that dramatizes the June 15, 2020 clash between Indian and Chinese forces at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, in which twenty Indian soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat at an altitude of about 15,000 feet; the film's Colonel Suresh Yadav is based on the real commanding officer, Colonel B. Santosh Babu. It is notable as India's first single shot war film, shot in one continuous eighty three minute take during filming in Kargil in November 2020 in temperatures of about minus 14 degrees Celsius, conditions in which lead actor Rahul Roy suffered a brain stroke during production.
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AwardRashtriya Military School Award for Excellence in Portrayal of Martyrs 1 Release Year Connections
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Source L.A.C. Battle of Galwan (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: India, originated there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Hindi, original language there.
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1. L.A.C. Battle of Galwan (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia Awards section: "received the Rashtriya Military School Award for Excellence in Portrayal of Martyrs"
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11 January 2025
In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
L.A.C. Battle of Galwan is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language war film written and directed by Nitin Kumar Gupta. Based on the 2020 Galwan Valley clash between India and China at the Line of Actual Control (L.A.C.), it is notable for being
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