TeaserOn the occasion of India’s 75th Independence Day on Aug.
15, the first teaser of Bollywood war epic “Pippa” has been revealed and Dec.
2 has been set as the release date.
The film is produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP and Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films, and directed by Raja Krishna Menon (“Airlift”).
It stars Ishaan (“A Suitable Boy”), Mrunal Thakur (“Sita Ramam”) and Priyanshu Painyuli (“Mirzapur”).
Oscar-winner A.R.
Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”) scores the music.“Pippa” is based on the book “The Burning Chaffees,” written by Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta and the screenplay is by Ravinder Randhawa, Tanmay Mohan and Menon.
Ishaan plays Captain Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who fought on India’s eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh.
The film’s title is a reference to the Russian amphibious tank called the Pt-76, popularly known as “Pippa,
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