120 Bahadur, A war epic on a par with border, if not better

Yes, it martyrs. Except for a few songs which come on when ... well, the going gets tough, there are no digressions, no stopover in this exceptional revisitation into a chapter of India's border-strife history, some call it war, which we would rather bury under the rubble of recency.

- SUBHASH KJHA

Some would say, the past is the past. And in their own way, they are right. We can't build new bridges unless we leave the past behind.

But here is the thing: unless we take a deep look at our past heroes, men(and women too, though in this case they are exempted from warmongering) who gave up their lives for us, we cannot hope to ensure the future for generations to come. The future must by its very nature be built on the grave of our heroes.

At the end after Param Vir Chakra winner Shaitan Singh is martyred-this is no spoiler-his wife(Raashi Khanna) reads a posthumous letter to their son in which Shaitan(we still don't know why he was called that although there is an entire sequence in which the soldiers giggle over the subject) tells his son to look after his two mothers: the biological and Bharat Mata.