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Randeep Hooda Bags Rights to ‘Operation Khukri,’ Set to Star in Epic War Drama (EXCLUSIVE)
Fresh off his 'Jaat' success, Bollywood star Randeep Hooda has nabbed film rights to the military bestseller 'Operation Khukri.'
The film “Operation Khukri” will bring to screen the harrowing real-life events from 2000, when 233 Indian soldiers were held hostage by rebel forces in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and the subsequent high-risk rescue mission that followed. Hooda will portray Major General Raj Pal Punia (then a young Company Commander of the 14th Mechanised Infantry), who navigated both the tense standoff and the extraordinary rescue operation amid challenging jungle warfare conditions. The mission began as a peacekeeping effort but escalated into a tense 75-day standoff that tested the resolve of the Indian contingent, who found themselves surrounded without supplies in the hostile terrains of Kailahun.
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