{"id":60271,"date":"2023-12-02T00:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/dec\/01\/sam-bahadur-review-meghna-gulzar-brave-manekshaw-indian-war-hero"},"modified":"2023-12-02T00:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:47:05","slug":"sam-bahadur-review-indian-war-hero-sam-manekshaw-is-the-guy-who-can-do-no-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60271","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bahadur review \u2013 Indian war hero Sam Manekshaw is the guy who can do no wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghna Gulzar\u2019s somewhat episodic biopic of Indian army officer Sam \u2018The Brave\u2019 Manekshaw presents him in terms of outright, if charming, heroism<\/p>\n<p>Sam Manekshaw \u2013 AKA Sam Bahadur (\u201cSam the Brave\u201d) \u2013 lived through some extraordinary periods of change. Born into an India ruled by Britain, he joined the army and fought for British-Indian interests against Japan in the second world war. On partition in 1947 he was assigned to a new unit, as his previous regiment was now part of Pakistan\u2019s armed forces. He later oversaw India\u2019s part in the Indo-Pakistani war, which led to the formation of Bangladesh, and became, in 1973, the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal, just as he retired.<\/p>\n<p>This historic framework could make a rich basis for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2012\/may\/17\/life-death-colonel-blimp-review\">Colonel Blimp<\/a>-style look at how values and politics shift around an individual as they age, but in the event, that\u2019s not how the makers of this biopic approach their subject. No doubt with a view to India\u2019s current surge of nationalist sentiment, and with input from Manekshaw\u2019s family, director Meghna Gulzar attitude is rather more straightforward. Manekshaw is presented throughout as a hero, consistently correct, noble, witty and forgiving. Whether he\u2019s standing up to politicians, boxing a rival or charming his future wife, the guy can do no wrong, and the charming Vicky Kaushal is well-cast in the role.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/dec\/01\/sam-bahadur-review-meghna-gulzar-brave-manekshaw-indian-war-hero\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghna Gulzar\u2019s somewhat episodic biopic of Indian army officer Sam \u2018The Brave\u2019 Manekshaw presents him in terms of outright, if charming, heroismSam Manekshaw \u2013 AKA Sam Bahadur (\u201cSam the Brave\u201d) \u2013 lived through some extraordinary periods of change. Bor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1601,71,69,62,61,1782,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biopics","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-films","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271\/revisions\/60272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}