Actor Sidharth Malhotra is set to play real-life hero Captain Vikram Batra in Shershaah. He says if he had the means then the film, which he calls his passion project, would have been produced by him.

In the movie, backed by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions and directed by Vishnu Varadhan, he plays Captain Batra, who laid down his life in the service of the nation while recapturing Indian territories from Pakistani intruders during the Kargil War of 1999.