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The importance of Mukti Bahini is shown in Ishaan Khatter’s Pippa - a biographical war film based on the life of Captain Balram Singh Mehta, who fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 read more
 "What is Mukti Bahini, the guerrilla resistance movement that played critical role during the Bangladesh Liberation War")
In the face of ongoing protests that started over quotas for the kin of freedom fighters in government jobs, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country. Thousands of people celebrated this thing and many of them stormed at her official residence.
The pictures circulated on the internet also showed protesters attacking the head of a giant statue of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was the father of independent Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Rahman, who played a significant role along with Mukti Bahini that transformed East Pakistan into Bangladesh in 1971. Mukti Bahini was the guerrilla resistance movement consisted of the Bangladeshi military, paramilitary and civilians during the historical Bangladesh Liberation War.
The importance of Mukti Bahini is shown in Ishaan Khatter’s Pippa - a biographical war film based on the life of Captain Balram Singh Mehta, who fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In the movie, it is shown Balram covertly entering East Pakistan (Bangladesh) under a fake name to train the Mukti Bahini and advise them to conduct operations. He leads the Mukti Bahini in several successful operations against the Pakistan Army but gets captured in one of the operations.
He is taken to the camp and tortured for the information but he refuses to utter a word. When he is on the verge of being shot for not revealing any information and his identity, the Mukti Bahini rebels reach the spot and kill his would-be executioner.
Due to Indian intervention, the Pakistan Army surrendered to the allied forces of Bangladesh and India. Apart from becoming part of the Bangladesh-India Allied Forces, it played a pivotal role in securing the Surrender of Pakistan and the liberation of Dhaka and other cities in December 1971.
Talking about Pippa, Ishaan had told Firstpost, “It’s, in many ways, first of its kind, a true blue war film but it’s also very human as a story. This is one film I’m really proud of.”
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