Shershaah: Kiara Advani says ‘entire crew was teary-eyed while shooting for Capt Vikram Batra’s funeral scene’

Bollywood actor Kiara Advani is all set to seize the display screen enjoying the function of Dimple Cheema, Capt Vikram Batra’s fiance, within the upcoming struggle movie Shershaah that captures the story of the famed struggle hero who was martyred in the course of the 1999 Kargil War. In a latest assertion, Kiara recalled that the day they shot the funeral sequence, everybody on the set had tears of their eyes.
Kiara shared that they shot the funeral sequence on the identical place in Palampur the place Batra’s funeral was really held all these years in the past. Keeping in thoughts the emotional depth of the scene, Kiara had already conveyed to director Vishnu Vardhan that she would solely give one take for the sequence.

“I told Vishnu Sir I would want to do only one take. He decided to take my close-up shot first to capture the emotions. While the camera was on me, I could hear sniffles all around me because the entire crew, including the junior artists, all other co-actors, despite not being in the frame, were all teary-eyed, even though they weren’t supposed to cry. We all resonated with the feeling of immense gratitude for the sacrifice of Captain Vikram Batra, it didn’t feel like we were performing, we relived July 11th, 1999,” she recalled.

Kiara additionally shared that Vikram’s twin brother Vishal Batra was additionally current on the set that day. “When Captain Vikram Batra was martyred, the entire city and town had come to the funeral from all over to pay their respects to the braveheart. Vishal Batra, Captain Vikram Batra’s twin brother was also present on the set that day,” she shared.

After Captain Batra martyred, Dimple didn’t marry. To put together for her function within the movie, Vishal Batra organized for Kiara to fulfill Dimple in Chandigarh. She had earlier shared with indianexpress.com about this assembly and mentioned, “It was very warm because it was only the both of us. I was in Chandigarh shooting for something else and it was all thanks to Vishal Batra, who made us meet. There was no one else in the room and she spoke and I just listened to her. She reminisced all her memories, their moments. How things were back then, writing letters, trunk calls.”
Starring Sidharth Malhotra, Kiara Advani, Shershaah begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video from August 12.