The life of Sam Manekshaw, India’s first field marshal, is the subject of the upcoming Hindi movie Sam Bahadur.
Meghna Gulzar is the director, and RSVP Movies’ Ronnie Screwvala is the producer.
Its main cast members are Vicky Kaushal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Neeraj Kabi, Sanya Malhotra, Edward Sonnenblick, and Zeeshan Ayyub.
- Directer: Meghna Gulzar
- Writer: Meghna Gulzar, Bhavani Iyer Based on The life of Sam Manekshaw
- Producer: Ronnie Screwvala
- Starring: Vicky Kaushal, Fatima Sana Shaikh
- Cinematography: Jay I. Patel
- Music Director: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
- Production company: RSVP Movies
- Distributor: Zee Studios, Pen Marudhar Entertainment
- Release date: 1 December 2023
- Country: India
- Language: Hindi
Star Cast
- Vicky Kaushal as a Sam Manekshaw
- Sanya Malhotra as a Silloo Manekshaw
- Rajiv Kachroo as a Hormusji Manekshaw
- Neeraj Kabi as a Jawaharlal Nehru
- Fatima Sana Shaikh as a Indira Gandhi
- Edward Sonnenblick as a Lord Mountbatten
- Ed Robinson as a Lt. D.A.D. Eykyn
- Krishnakant Singh Bundela as a Subedar Gurbaksh Singh
- Keita Arai as a Army General
- Paul O’Neill as a Major-general David Cowan
- Sammy Jonas Heaney as a Captain McLaren
- Saqib Ayub as a Captain Attiqur Rehman
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as a Yahya Khan
Production
The movie’s release was announced by RSVP Movies in 2021 on the 107th anniversary of the late Sam Manekshaw’s birth.
Casting
Following Raazi (2018), the movie is Gulzar and Kaushal’s second collaboration. Sanya Malhotra and Fatima Sana Shaikh joined the cast in December 2021
In September 2022, Neeraj Kabi was added to the cast to play Jawaharlal Nehru. It was announced by Kaushal in an interview with Film Companion that the character will be his most challenging on-screen performance to date.
The film shooting
The movie’s main shooting started on August 8, 2022. The group terminated on March 14, 2023.
The film was shot in ten different Indian cities, including Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Punjab, and Kashmir. On December 1, 2022, the initial teaser was released.
