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Updated On: 08 December, 2023 02:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Border 2 to roll in 2024, over two decades after original; sources say movie will focus on how the Defence Forces’ three arms came together in the 1971 Indo-Pak war

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While Sunny Deol has been roped in, the makers are in talks with Ayushmann Khurrana for the parallel lead

Hindi cinema has its fair share of war dramas, but JP Dutta’s Border (1997) stands out in public memory. Now, the makers are ready to roll with the sequel. mid-day has learnt that Border 2 is expected to go on floors in the first quarter of 2024. While there has been a change of guard with Dutta Sr passing the baton to
producer-writer daughter Nidhi Dutta, one thing about the sequel remains the same—it will be led by Sunny Deol, who was the pillar of the 1997 offering. Sources say the movie will revisit the 1971 India-Pakistan war. “Nidhi is designing it as the biggest war film made in the country to date. Unlike previous movies that have focussed on only one faction of the Defence Forces, the film shows the joint working of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. It has personal stories of the 1971 war heroes and martyrs,” says a source.

Filmmaker JP Dutta with producer-daughter Nidhi; (right) Border was a blockbuster on its release in 1997