Sonu Sood to play an army officer
National Award winning film-maker JP Dutta, who directed Border (1997), is back with his next ambitious project titled Paltan. Though Dutta has been tight-lipped about the details, Paltan will reportedly boast of an ensemble star cast. HT Café has learnt that the veteran film-maker has signed Sonu Sood to be partrt ofof his project.
A source reveals, “Sonu’s wish to portray the role of a soldier on the big screen will finally be fulfilled with JP Dutta’s Paltan, which is a war film. Twenty years after making Border, the filmmaker is back to doing a war film and this time it promises to be bigger and better. The actor will play a Major who hailshil fromf Rajasthan.”jh
Talking about it, Sonu says, “I had wanted to get into the Army but then I decided to pursue engineering and then I got into acting. But getting into that army uniform was always a high for me. Even in my acting career, I always thought that it will be a dream come true to play an army o officer. I have completely lo loved and enjoyed all the war filmsfil — whether its Hindi or English.En It gives you a patrioticpa feeling. I think it’s a hugehu high for any actor to playpl a soldier, and I am lookingl forward to starting work on this project.”
Besides Sonu, Arjun Rampal has also been signed for the project. Other actors such as Abhishek Bachchan, Pulkit Samrat and Jackie Shroff have been speculated to be a part of the project.