The Ghazi Attack, India’s first war-at-sea film, is an epic underwater tale of immense courage and undying patriotism, starring Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Late Actor Om Puri and Taapsee Pannu.

Guts but no glory. That’s what awaits the souls who carry out classified missions for the country. Ready to be martyrs, ready to die so that people like you and I can have peaceful nights. For them glory perhaps lies in the fact that they took on the missions, that they carried out their orders and fought off the threat. 

The trailer of The Ghazi Attack has released, and it has got the audience talking about something that has never previously come to light. An underwater battle from 1971, a naval battle that no one knew about. It all started prior to the infamous 1971 Indo-Pak war, the battle for the liberation of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

Everything commenced when the Pakistan Naval Command decided to send out its largest submarine PNS Ghazi to take down our airplane carrier INS Vikrant. The Ghazi was originally called the USS Diablo and had been loaned by USA to Pakistan. It was the only submarine they had that could travel over 11,000 nautical miles, and therefore it also had the capability to sustain itself for more than a month underwater. So Pakistan, below the radar, deployed Ghazi in mid-November from Karachi. From there, it made its way to the Bay of Bengal.To gain any kind of control or supremacy in the Bay of Bengal, it was essential for Pakistan to destroy the Vikrant. After all, it was crucial to have command over the Bay of Bengal for access to East Pakistan.

It was possibly a huge factor in us winning the war. If all the stories are to be believed. But then with classified operations, come doubt and debatable theories. 

Maybe the movie will tell us more. 

Film surfaces on 17th February, 2017