After the success of two war hero bio-pics — Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl in 2020 and Shershaah in 2021 — both of which were released during the Independence Day weekend, Producer Karan Johar will now make his third bio-pic on insurgent Usha Mehta.
This bio-pic also will be released for the Independence Day weekend 2022 Sources on the brink of Karan say he intends to form his Independence Day movies a daily occurrence.
The idea is to supply a movie about an unsung national hero per annum . It started as a one-off thing when Karan Johar produced Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl about the primary Indian Air Force lady pilot. This year, Shershaah about Param Vir Chakra awardee Vikram Batra, was also well received,” a source informs Subhash K Jha.
Karan is now on to his third film on a national hero Usha Mehta, which can be directed by Kannan Iyer, who directed Ek Tthi Dayan in 2013. The hunt is on to collect the names and achievements of other soldiers, war heroes and freedom fighters,” the source added.
