Shot in India, Japan and the UK, it features people who either fought in those battles or were touched by the horrors of war. And why not, after all hundreds of civilians had been killed in the Japanese bombing raids over Imphal in 1944. Borpujari's film shows it all.The war had a dehumanizing effect on the locals as it did on the fighting men. Anyone who has seen the HBO series Pacific would recall seeing American soldiers cutting out gold teeth from Japanese corpses.Yet the war was a great leveller too. We couldn't have won the war without the Indian Army," recalls Gordon Graham in the film.

Source: Times of India August 24, 2016 17:23 UTC