India’s biggest motion picture Baahubali has been winning laurels across the globe for its Hollywood standard visual effects and the epic battle scenes, made on a low budget compared to that of traditional Hollywood epic films. Many film enthusiasts compared Baahubali battle scenes, the war design, the machinery used etc to several Hollywood war epics like 300, Troy etc.
But here’s some competition to Jakkanna’s ambitious war film. This morning, Bollywood star Ajay Devgan took to Twitter to announce his next film, Sons Of Sardaar. Ajay said, “Need ur best wishes for Sons Of Sardaar, will match the scale of Hollywood war film 300 and based on epic Battle of Saragarhi. Diwali 2017.”
While Son Of Sardaar was an official remake of Rajamouli’s hit comedy, Maryada Ramanna, Sons Of Sardaar has nothing to do with comedy and it is a gigantic historical war film based on the Battle of Saragarhi which took place in 1897 in Tirah, British India (Modern day Pakistan). We will have to wait until 2017 to see if Bollywood succeeds in matching with Jakkanna’s mastery.