TIL Desk Bollywood/ ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ actor Vicky Kaushal has been roped in to play Sam Manekshaw — the first Field Marshal of India — in Meghna Gulzar’s upcoming movie. Sam Manekshaw, or Sam Bahadur as he was popularly known, was born on April 3, 1914 in Amritsar.
Manekshaw cheated death on a few occasions, both on the battlefield and away from it. He died at the age of 94 in Wellington, Tamil Nadu on June 27, 2008. Manekshaw led the country to victory against Pakistan in 1971. He was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.
On the death anniversary of the iconic man on Thursday, producer Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP unveiled Vicky’s look in the film that goes on floors late next year. The script is written by Bhavani Iyer and Shantanu Shrivastava along with Meghna.
