The Ghazi Attack (2017) on Netflix
In 1971, as war with Pakistan nears, submarine S21 hunts a threat to India's aircraft carrier. Captain Ran Vijay Singh wants to attack; Arjun Varma is aboard to hold him back.
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In November 1971, India and Pakistan stand on the verge of war amid the refugee crisis caused by Operation Searchlight. The Indian Navy and RAW decode a secret message sent from Pakistan to East Pakistan about a planned attack on an Indian naval vessel, and the top command concludes the target may be INS Vikrant, the country's only aircraft carrier. The submarine S21, under Captain Ran Vijay Singh, is sent out on reconnaissance. Because Singh is eager to fight, the Admiral places Arjun Varma aboard with orders to keep the boat from confronting Pakistani warships and starting a war. Pakistan has meanwhile sent PNS Ghazi, commanded by Razak Khan, into the Bay of Bengal to hunt Vikrant. When Ghazi torpedoes an Indian merchant ship, S21 races to the wreck, where Arjun pulls two Bengali refugees from the water.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ghazi Attack (2017)
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- Indian Navy Vice Admiral Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani wrote in Transition to Triumph that 'the truth about ghazi is unknown to many', and Pakistan Navy and neutral analysts believe PNS Ghazi sank after hitting one of its own mines, not in the 3 December 1971 attack ordered by Captain Inder Singh of INS Rajput.
- The sinking of German submarine U-864 remains the only incident in the history of naval warfare in which one submarine sank another while both were submerged.
