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Gippy talks about his toughest film yet
Singer-actor Gippy Grewal is working on his first biopic — a film based on the life of Subedar Joginder Singh, an Indian Army soldier who fought the 1962 SinoIndian War.
Singh was conferred with the Param Vir Chakra award for leading his troops till he got wounded and subsequently died in Chinese captivity.
When asked to share the toughest part of shooting for the film, Gippy says,
“Sab kuchh hi tough tha! We have shot in the most extreme conditions. We first shot a portion of the film in Rajasthan, where the temperature rose considerably.
We then shot in Dras sector, which is the second coldest place on Earth — the temperature can dip as low as minus 65. It was minus 30 when we started shooting, but we endured it all.”
Couldn’t the makers have recreated the conditions in another place, as many do when it comes to such films? “This is a biopic, so we can’t shoot in just any place and pass it off as the real one. It was a conscious decision to film in Dras,” says Gippy.
All praises for the Indian Army, which endures it all for the nation, Gippy feels that soldiers don’t get enough recognition.
“We made a behind-thescenes video, and I’ve even said in it that this was the toughest film I’ve done [till now].
Life in Dras is tough. The facilities I got while I was there, maybe our soldiers don’t. We don’t realise what all our soldiers go through,” he shares.
It’s much harder for women than it is for men. So, discussions on how women balance their life and work should give way to how do we get the support we need ANOUSHKA SHANKAR SITARIST