Air War
The Tuskegee Airmen – Two different films
All clickable links in red Lest people think that only we Desis screw up war movies by adding all sorts of unnecessary masala, think twice. Hollywood is equally if not more guilty of the same fact. The two different films on the real-life story of The Tuskegee Airmen prove this. One, a TV movie…
Read MoreSky Force (2025) – Some Force Some Farce
Genre – War Movie (based on true stories) Time: 2 Hours Platform: Theatrical release Cast: Akshay Kumar. Veer Pahariya. Sharad Kelkar. Nimrat Kaur. Sara Ali Khan. Fact: On September 7, 1965, 12 Mystere combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force attacked the Sargodha Airfield Complex of Pakistani Air Force. One of the attacking pilots…
Read MoreFirefox (1982) – How Clint Won The Cold War!
Clickable links in red Director: Clint Eastwood Genre: Spy cum techno Thriller Time: 1 Hour 57 minutes Platform: Amazon Prime (rent) Cast: Clint Eastwood. Freddie Jones It is 1980 and The Cold War is intensifying. Both sides are intensifying the race to create deadlier weapons. British Intelligence obtains information that the Soviet Union…
Read MoreThe Battle of Britain – 1969 – Accurate and entertaining
Director: Guy Hamilton Producer: Harry Saltzman Script: James Kennaway. Wilfred Greatorex A common legend among the British is the trope of a “small bunch of British men against the might of the ugly bad …….. ” . In the blanks, you can insert Africans (Zulu and Khartoum), Pathans and Indians (Gunga Din, The Bengal Lancers),…
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