Bahadursingh is alive to the great happiness of his father the Brigadier, but this joy was not lasting. Wives for their husbands.Sweethearts for their loved ones. Bahadursingh (the Brigadiers son) along with hundreds of other patriots are also given up as dead on the fateful BLACK DIVALI night leaving many a heart. But it is not easy to kill COURAGE and they reach another helpful post through sheer persistence, will power and a sense of patriotism. Hundreds of Chinese were killed but on and on they came sea waves of men untill all our ammunition was over and no other alternative seemed reasonable except a withdrawl so withdraw they did inspite of the fact that the Chinese were completely routed in an ambush, Major Ranjitsingh with some of his tired, hungry, wounded, frostbitten yet courageous men get lost in the hills and mountain loosing all contact with the rest of the world because their only wireless set is out of order and are given up as dead. Majors Ranjitsingh and Pratapsingh with the few men they have,fight with undaunted skill and courage against heavy odds sometimes fifty to one. Brave sons of the country left their mothers, wives, daughters and sweet hearts for border defence.
We were shaken for peace has been and is our motto and heritage, but complacency and cowardice ? NEVER so for the first time, to defend our motherland we took up arms. land of the people in whose blood are infused ideas of peace and non violence by masters like Budh, Ashok, Gandhi and Nehru. For years those who claimed brotherly relationship with us were now slowly advancing with their armies and annexing our land. The story of HAQEEQAT is based on the bravery of the Indian soldiers against the recent Chinese aggression in Ladakh.
Shot on location on the Ladakh border, the film had one other song hit, the soldiers qawali Ho ke majboor mujhe sune bulaya hoga (sung by Mohammed Rafi, Bhupendra, Talat Mahmood, Manna Dey and a chorus). Rheotrical highlights including the platoon commander (Sahni) excoriating Maos Little Red Book whcih a soldier spears with a bayonet the commanding officer (Jaywant) denouncing the Chinese to documentary footage of Chou En-Lai landing in Delhi and being given a guard of honour Kaifi Azmis song Kar chale hum fida jaan-o-tan saathiyon (sung by Mohammed Rafi) cut to more documentary shots of Nehru addressing the troops and of the Republic Day parade. Bahadur Singh (Dharmendra) and his tribal girlfriend (Rajvansh) who die holding the Chinese at bay while their comrades retreat to safety. Made by former Marxits Anand, Sahni et.al., the films main plot concerns a small platoon of Indian soldiers presumed dead but rescued by Kashmiri gypsies and by Capt. The war had led to a sobering awareness of Indias military capability and contributed to major schisms about Nehruite notions of non-alignment while accelerating the split in the CPI between Moscow-and Beijing-aligned groups.
Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd.Apropoganda film dedicated to Nehru and trading on the resurgence of nationalist sentiment in the wake of the India-China war of 1962 which provide the films setting.
Madan Mohan - A Treasure Revealed - 2392 545 Rai Bahadur Chunilal left for Mumbai for business opportunities and subsequently became a partner in the Bombay Talkies studio and then in the Filmistan studio. He took his family to his home town, Chakwal in Jhelum district of Punjab, now in Pakistan, and left them in the care of Madan Mohan's grandfather, Hakim Yograj- a famous doctor. After 1932, Rai Bahadur Chunnilal migrated back to India.