Tango Charlie

Thousands of soldiers kill each other...

...in every corner of the world.

Whether it is Israel or Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya...

Pakistan, or if it is India.

All of them have the same story.

We shouldn't be proud of their death.

We should be embarrassed of it.

Because the soul of every dead soldier cries out...

War is meaningless. Hatred is useless.

Life is precious.

Delta three fox zero.

Report your position. Over.

Delta three fox zero reporting.

We are going towards the north east.

The target is 45 kilometer far.

Squadron leader Vikram Rathore.

You are going very near the Line of Control.

The enemy has stinger missiles. Be careful, over.

- Did you hear that Shehzaad? - Yes. Sir.

Keep your eyes open. They have stinger missiles.

Doesn't matter, sir. The enemies will have some hundred...

...or two hundred bunkers in these...

...mountains which are some thousand miles long.

As soon as the enemy shoots a missile towards us...

...I will inform you about it immediately.

Missile... missile... run...

Did you hear about yesterday?

They blast a MIG 27 a bit farther from here.

The pilot bailed out, but fell towards them.

They caught him alive.

Thank you, sir. Thank you for the good news.

Compared to the speed of that MIG 27...

...the speed of our helicopter is just...

...like a chicken without wings, sir.

You joke very well.

Come on... we will earn our salary now.

The target is near.

Delta three fox zero to command.

We have reached near the target.

Deploy camera and confirm.

Camera deployed and operating, sir.

Delta three fox zero. According to the satellite reports...

...there has been a big blast here last night.

Request visual confirmation, over.

There are a lot of dead bodies here.

Looking at the white and Khaki uniforms...

...we can gauge that all of them are the enemies.

That is good news.

Delta three fox zero, return immediately.

It isn't safe to stay in this area for a long time. Over.

Roger, sir. We are returning.

There is an Indian soldier there. He is wounded.

Permission to land and rescue, sir.

Permission denied.

- What the... - You know that you are in the missile range of the enemies.

We will send a rescue team in some way...

You return. Over.

Sir, till the time the rescue team reaches here...

It will be too late.

The soldier will die, sir.

Yes. What shall we do?

Let's land...

Yes, sir.

Please confirm...

Sir, if we do like this...

I understand. We will say that radio conked out.

Right, sir.

Base command.

We have rescued that solider. We are returning.

- Over. - Why did you land against the orders?

Base command...

We didn't get your order. Maybe the radio signals had conked out.

There will be an enquiry on this as soon as you reach base.

No problem, sir. Over and out.

- Check his wounds. - Yes, sir.

He has something here, sir.

It is a diary. It seems that the person is a writer.

He has been shot, the wound is deep.

There is a lot of blood loss.

Who is he?

- Tarun Chauhan. - What?

Tarun Tango. Chauhan Charlie, sir.

His id is solider Tarun Chauhan, Tango Charlie.

101 battalion, BSF, over.

Copy that.

Tarun Chauhan, Tango Charlie, 101 battalion, BSF.

- Over. - How is he now?

I did what I could, sir.

Will he survive?

I cannot say, sir. The wound is deep.

And there is a lot of blood loss too.

Listen to this, sir. The diary.

This is the diary of Tarun Chauhan.

If anyone else gets it, please return it to me without reading.

If we have found a diary, I will have to read it.

There will be a lot of secrets in it.

- Shall I read it, sir? - Yes.

Manipur, 10th September.

- I killed a person for the first time in my life. - What?

It was a very terrible experience.

Read it properly, from the beginning.

Yes. Sir.

Manipur jungle, my first field posting.

Six kilometers north from here...

You have to join constable Muhammad Ali's section platoon.

He will give you the further orders.

Keep your eyes and ears open.

Because the terrorist Bodos here are very dangerous.

- Any doubts? - No, sir.

And yes... give these letters of the platoon to them.

All the best.

Thank you, sir.

Manipur. I saw such a dense forest for the first time.

I felt as if I had stepped in some other world.

It is such a beautiful place.

Who are you?

Tell me. Or else I will shoot you.

Don't shoot me. I am the solider Tarun Chauhan.

101 battalion, BSF.

Wrong. You are not a soldier. You are a fool.

Who has been trapped so easily.

Tell me, who are you?

I am a fool.

And I am your platoon commander.

- Constable Muhammad Ali. - Sir!

And this is your biggest mistake.

What were you taught during your platoon?

Not to let go of your weapons under any circumstances.

Fool. Come down.

Sir.

Actually... sir...

You set such a nice trap.

Or else I would never have been trapped.

I learnt this from the Bodo enemies.

I trap them using their own trap now.

Using a gun and ration bags.

They have a lot of Chinese weapons.

But they enjoy capturing Indian weapons.

Do you know how many I hanged and killed like this?

How many, sir?

Thirteen.

The enemy knows this land and forest better than us.

If he catches you alive... he will cut your ears first.

He will make a necklace out of it...

...and present it to his beloved.

See, darling, what I have brought for you!

Jail Singh...

- Joseph. - Tarun.

Yes!

The enemy speaks with the voice of the birds too.

He will say something like this.

If his tone is a bit lower, he is asking something.

If he uses a higher tone, he is ordering an attack.

And the soldiers of the enemy will call their commander in this tone.

Did you understand?

That noise?

Not only Bodos, there are birds here too.

This is the base camp. You have to do two tasks here.

First, you have to survive. And secondly, you have to cook.

And for today, we will make do...

...with chicken tandoori, alu gobhi, and dal and rumali roti.

We are telling him seriously, and he is smiling?

Sir, I will prepare the food. But I have a condition too.

I will tell you about that condition.

If we don't like it, you will have to eat the food for eleven people.

Bhiku...

Come. We will meet everyone.

Friends... he is our new man, Tarun.

He has come in place of Jaspal.

Has Jaspal been transferred?

Yes. To the almighty.

The orders were passed so quickly...

...he didn't leave anything behind.

Except a bloodied shirt.

I had brought these letters.

Letters?

Wow... Letters.

Hold this.

Freddy.

Solanki... take this.

There is one for you too.

- Josef... - Thank you.

Faiz.

This...

This is mine...

Wow!

Come... come. Have a seat.

He is like this. He loves his wife a lot.

Therefore, he cannot answer her letters.

Josef...

And when he answers them after six months...

He writes...

My beloved wife...

I have got your complain number 2453.

And I will be taking action on it immediately.

Josef... silent...

Actually, I do answer a couple of months later.

The problem solves out itself.

Why should I take unnecessary tensions?

- Dixit... Tarun... - Come...