As JP Dutta Is Back With Paltan, Here’s Recalling His Historic Blockbuster Border Starring Sunny Deol!

The theatrical trailer of Paltan directed by JP Dutta will be unveiled at an event in Mumbai today. With Paltan, Dutta will complete with war trilogy as before this he directed Border and LOC: Kargil. It has been 21 years since the release of Border and the film is still remembered for the iconic dialogues and authenticity of showcasing the war sequences. Be it Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna or Jackie Shroff, each and every actor left a mark with a heroic performance.

Border was based on the real-life battle of Longewella from 1971 Indo-Pak War. Dutta’s brother was a real-life pilot who lost his life in MIG Crash in 1987 and the director used real life references in creating some of the crucial moments of the film. The film released on 13th June 1997 and opened to a record response. It raked in approximately Rs 1.13 crores in India on its opening day and was one of the first Hindi films to open above the Rs 1.00 crore mark. Sunny Deol’s star-power and the wave of patriotism were major reasons for the historic opening of the film.

The iconic war drama commanded a positive word of mouth from the audience, who praised the heroism, dialogues, story-line and more importantly the emotional content of the film. The film released on merely 270 screens in India back then and ended its run at the Box-Office at collections in the close to Rs 40.00 crores. The film was the highest grossing Hindi film of 1997, and one of the biggest hits of Sunny Deol’s acting career.