Border (I) (1997)

Sunny Deol: Major Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri

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Quotes 

• Major Kuldeep Singh : [laughs madly] 

  Dharamvir : May I ask you a question if you don't mind, Sir? There must be some difference between bravery and madness?

  Major Kuldeep Singh : What you call madness comes from faith. And I have full faith that God decides life and death and God is with me, not with the enemy.

• Major Kuldeep Singh : You don't win a war by getting martyred by the enemy, you win it by killing them! YOU HAVE TO KILL THEM!

• Major Kuldeep Singh : Your holiday has been sanctioned because there is a problem at your house. But who doesn't have a problem in this world? The other name of life is problem.

  [Kuldeep drags Mathura Das outside in anger] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Tell me, there are some people among our fellow brothers whose widow mother is blind. And her alone son has been lost in this dust of the deserts. There are some people whose mother's ashes are waiting that her son would win the war and come back. And then immerse it in the holy Ganges. Somebody's old father is counting the last moments of his life. And he daily postpones death thinking that the one who will light my final pyre is on the faraway border. If they all will give an excuse about their problems and go on a holiday then how will we win this war? Tell me! Is it possible to win the war then? Mathura Das, before I term you as a national betrayer and shoot you, run away from here.

• Major Kuldeep Singh : [On the communicator after seeing Pakistani tanks approach Longewala]  Air Force Station Jaisalmer, I want to talk to your CO. Over.

  [Scene cuts to Jackie Shroff on his Airbase] 

  Wing Commander Anand Bajwa : Station Commander on the line. Who is it? Over.

  [Scene cuts to Sunny Deol] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Major Kuldeep Singh here, Sir, over.

  [Scene cuts to Jackie Shroff] 

  Wing Commander Anand Bajwa : Yes Major, what's your message, over.

  [Scene cuts to Sunny Deol] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Wing Commander Sir, Pakistanis have besieged my post Longewala from all sides, and they can attack anytime. They have 40 tanks and thousands in infantry, and I have only 120 men. I need air support immediately Sir, over.

  [Scene cuts to Jackie Shroff] 

  Wing Commander Anand Bajwa : Shit. I wish I could help you Major, but unfortunately air support cannot be provided tonight, over.

  [Scene cuts to Sunny Deol] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Why Sir, over.

  [Scene cuts to Jackie Shroff] 

  Wing Commander Anand Bajwa : Here I have only Hunter fighter jets which cannot operate at night. I will be there with the first light of the morning, over.

  [Scene cuts to Sunny Deol] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [In a disheartened tone]  That's bad news Sir. How will we hold out till the morning, over.

  [Scene cuts to Jackie Shroff] 

  Wing Commander Anand Bajwa : [Hitting the jet exhaust in helplessness]  I cannot help you Major.

  [In a calm but worried tone] 

  Wing Commander Anand Bajwa : It's not possible. You will have to hold the post. I'll be there with the first light of the morning. All the best, good luck. Over and out, Major.

  [Hangs his phone and scene cuts to Sunny Deol] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [Talking to himself]  There's a hell lot of time for morning to arrive.

• Lt. Colonel : He is second lieutenant, Dharamvir, your second in command.

  [Kuldeep and Dharamvir shake hands] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Sir, you did not tell me that there is a child too in between 120 men.

  Lt. Colonel : [Shocked] 

  Dharamvir : You are right sir. I am a child. My father was a kid too when he entered the army. But he was such a lovely child that in the '65 war God called him and made him sit on his lap.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Your father's name?

  Dharamvir : Major Veer Bhan.

  Lt. Colonel : Ok Kuldeep. Best of luck.

  [Lt. Colonel and Kuldeep salute each other] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Dharamvir, tell the company to mount.

  Dharamvir : Sir!

  [Dharamvir turns toward Mathura Das] 

  Dharamvir : Subedar-sir, get the company mounted.

  Naib Subedar Mathura Das : COMPANY, MOUNT!

  [Company mounts] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : I knew Major Veer Bhan very well. I can't call him a friend since he was my senior. But our relationship was no less than a friendship. How is your mother?

  Dharamvir : She is fine. But she can't see.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Can't see?

  Dharamvir : The light of her eyes flowed away with tears.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [Consoles Dharmvir]  I'm sorry son.

• Captain Bhairav Singh : [Walking towards Dharamvir]  What's the matter, lieutenant sir? You're not sleeping.

  [Bhairav Singh sit beside Dharamvir] 

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Dharamvir, your father had become a martyr in 1965's war.

  Dharamvir : After all he was in the army.

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Do you really think that Indian army was responsible for your father's death?

  Dharamvir : [after a brief pause]  Yes.

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Then why did you join the army?

  Dharamvir : Giving me the oath of his love. My father had told me to join the army only.

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Why did he do this? Because the love of country was the greatest love for him.

  Dharamvir : And in the obsession of that love he tied son in the chain of this uniform. He gave me a gun and told me to kill the soldier before me. Soldiers who like me, is some mother's son. I've never seen him in my life. He has never wronged me. Whose name also I don't know. After all, why? For what?

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Because if you don't kill him, then he'll kill you. He'll cross your body and step on your motherland. And your free motherland will again be tied in the chains of slavery. We don't even glance at other's land. But we're not so worthless that somebody glances at our motherland and we just keep quiet. No, sir. No. Never.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [Suddenly from behind]  Be alert! Keep your eyes on the enemy. Don't even blink your eyes.

• Subedar Rattan Singh : [Salutes]  Subedar Ratan Singh reporting on duty sir.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : At ease Ratan Singh. Anti-tank guns. Just 2 RCL guns? Do they think that the enemy has just 2-4 tanks?

  Subedar Rattan Singh : Why just 2, sir? Let them have even 2-4 hundred. When Ratan Singh is here, you don't need to worry.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Ratan Singh, you won't stop your hands and legs.

  Subedar Rattan Singh : Why not, sir? If the need arises then, I'll put my head on the tank to silence it, sir.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Ratan Singh has not changed. Like always, you must be hungry.

  Subedar Rattan Singh : I'm starving. I can even make a tandoori chicken of the enemy's tank and eat it.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [laughs]  Go. Bhagiram is waiting.

  Subedar Rattan Singh : Bhagiram?

  [Ratan Singh salutes]