fellow lead actor Prakash Bare, their awardwinning director Dr Bijukumar Damodaran, and 10 key camera, sound and other technical crew flew to Port Moresby from India for the shoot in August last year, PNG locals worked in all other parts of the production. This included Sine as the lead character Papa Buka and John Sike who plays the historians’ driver Sike Yuants, with PNG input into the script coming from its co-writer Daniel Jonerdhagtt, a former arts lecturer and now music teacher at NAFA’s music school Music Masters of PNG, along with history teacher Anna
soldiers from their country who fought and died in PNG. More than 1000 Indian soldiers are believed to have died in PNG both as prisoners of war and while fighting with
British troops during the conflict, but the graves of only 337 have been identified. The plot particularly revolves around a personal quest by one of the historians,
Romila – played by prominent Bollywood actress Ritabhari Chakraborty – who is trying to find the war grave of her military medic grandfather. Although Ritabhari,
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