Paltan is a based on true events at the actual line of control b/w the Indai and China Nathu la pass.India and Tibet. It is the story of bravehearts from Indain army, s Rajpoot battalian, who put up a spirited defense against their unreasonableChinese counterpart in 1965. The film begins with a postman at night, knocking on each door to give families bad news about their loved ones. They instantly begin to wail, and the sound of this chest beating hysteria is only amplified as the postman makes his way down the street and dutta sets the stage for a loud war film about the casulities of war. Soon we see Jackie as a major general talking to Arjun who plays a Lieutenant Colonel, both of them speaking in english and pausing at unnatural points, goving the impression that we are watching a hurriedly dubbed foreign film.Here the soldiers apeak exclasively in idioms. Sonu sood, cast as a tough as nails major. has the wrost of this as he says things like weapons are a soldiers limbs and soldiers dont fight because of hate for the other army, but love for ones they live behind , often in consecutive sentences, halting only to throw around the word ’yaara’ an awful lot. Similarly the hot-blooded sikh worrior keeps invoking Waheguru, and keeps asking his collegues for common english words like , well, common, while being able to say things about the ’demarcation of international boundaries ’ without a hiccap.