‘They told us to remove the martyrs’ photos’: LAC Battle of Galwan director

Updated On: 12 July, 2025 08:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR

Director Nitin Kumar Gupta, whose film LAC Battle of Galwan was compelled to release on YouTube last week, recalls his three-year struggle to get the CBFC’s clearance. He revealed the film was screened for many officials, followed by multiple changes made by the CBFC

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The first look of Salman Khan’s Battle of Galwan, which is based on the same subject, was unveiled last week

Last week, as Salman Khan unveiled the teaser of his next, Battle of Galwan, to cheers from his fans, another movie on the same subject quietly released on YouTube. Writer and director Nitin Kumar Gupta’s LAC Battle of Galwan, starring Rahul Roy, is a dramatised account inspired by the military confrontation that took place between India and China in June 2020, in Ladakh. While Gupta originally wanted the film to hit the screens on June 15, 2023, it has taken the project more than two years since to see the light of day.

“I wanted the martyrs’ families to see the film in theatres,” says the director. But that was not to be. The movie, shot in November 2020, was submitted to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in June 2022. Gupta says that in August, the CBFC screened the 83-minute single-shot film for the Additional Directorate General of Public Information committee of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces personnel in New Delhi. It was followed by a screening for the board in the same month. In September 2022, the CBFC handed out many changes in the war drama."

(L-R) Rahul Roy and Nishant Malkani in the film. Pics/mid-day archives, Instagram, Youtube