![]() ![]() This historic framework could make a rich basis for a Colonel Blimp-style look at how values and politics shift around an individual as they age, but in the event, that’s not how the makers of this biopic approach their subject. ![]() ![]() He later oversaw India’s part in the Indo-Pakistani war and became, in 1973, the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal, just as he retired. On partition in 1947 he was assigned to a new unit, as his previous regiment was now part of Pakistan’s armed forces. Born into an India ruled by Britain, he joined the army and fought for British-Indian interests against Japan in the second world war. Sam Manekshaw – AKA Sam Bahadur (“Sam the Brave”) – lived through some extraordinary periods of change. ![]()
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