Randeep Hooda to play lead role in ‘Operation Khukri’
Randeep Hooda to play lead role in ‘Operation Khukri’
MUMBAI: (May 20) Actor Randeep Hooda is set to headline the upcoming military drama movie “Operation Khukri” based on one of Indian Army’s most daring peacekeeping missions abroad.
inspired by the real-life events of 2000, The film tells the story of 233 soldiers who were held hostage in Sierra Leone in West Africa by rebel forces and the high risk rescue mission undertaken.
In the movie, Hooda will portray Major General Raj Pal Punia, then a young Company Commander of the 14th mechanised infantry who navigated the stand-off and subsequently the extraordinary rescue amid intense jungle warfare.
