Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) on Netflix
After militants ambush an army convoy in Chandel, Manipur, Major Vihaan Singh Shergill leads the retaliation. He takes a desk job in New Delhi to be near his mother, who has Alzheimer's.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb8.2/1085,571 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes62%
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Plot summary
An army convoy in Chandel, Manipur, comes under attack from NSCN(K) militants in June 2015. Major Vihaan Singh Shergill and his unit, among them his brother-in-law Major Karan Kashyap, strike back and kill the leader responsible for the ambush. At a formal dinner the prime minister congratulates the unit. Vihaan asks for early retirement to stay close to his mother, who has Alzheimer's, and the prime minister instead offers him a post in New Delhi near her. He moves to the Integrated Defence Staff headquarters and spends time with his family. A nurse, Jasmine d'Almeida, is assigned to his mother's care, and he meets Flight Lieutenant Seerat Kaur, an air force pilot. Then his mother goes missing.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019)
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- The film's call-and-response line "How's the Josh?" went viral on Indian social media and became a cultural phenomenon; Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian cricket team and Mumbai Police all used it.
- To fight piracy, the makers of Uri: The Surgical Strike put a 3.8-gigabyte fake version of the film on torrent networks, but the bootleg site Tamil Rockers leaked the real film within a week of release.
- The film was largely shot in Serbia, where the Indo-Pak border, the Line of Control and areas standing in for military posts and terrorist camps were recreated.
