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* DesertWarfare: The film is about the Battle of Longewalla fought during the [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict 1971 Indo-Pak war]] in the Thar desert in Rajasthan. A heavy weapons company defends a remote forward desert outpost close to the Pakistan border, against an onslaught by an entire Pakistani tank battalion.
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Mathura Das’s wife has contracted it. The army grants him compassionate leave to care for her.
* ForWantOfANail: The company is tactically weakened because one of its medium machine guns is missing a spring, rendering it incapable of automatic fire.
* IChooseToStay: Captain Bhairon Singh of the BSF [[note]] India’s Border Patrol [[/note]] refuses to leave Longewalla with his men, choosing instead to remain with the army and help defend the base.
* ForWantOfANail: The company is tactically weakened because one of its medium machine guns is missing a spring, rendering it incapable of automatic fire.
* IChooseToStay: Captain Bhairon Singh of the BSF [[note]] India’s Border Patrol [[/note]] refuses to leave Longewalla with his men, choosing instead to remain with the army and help defend the base.
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Mathura Das’s Das's wife has contracted it. The army grants him compassionate leave to care for her.
* ForWantOfANail: The company is tactically weakened because one of its medium machine guns is missing a spring, rendering it incapable of automatic fire.
* IChooseToStay: Captain Bhairon Singh of the BSF [[note]] India’s BSF[[note]]India's Border Patrol [[/note]] Patrol[[/note]] refuses to leave Longewalla with his men, choosing instead to remain with the army and help defend the base.
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* HoldTheLine: Half the movie is about Major Chandipur’s company holding the line for an entire night against Pak armor.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mathura Das the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.
* WetBlanketWife: The Major’s wife has her father pull strings to get her husband transferred away from the front lines to a regional headquarters to keep him safe. Kuldip who wants to fight in the war, is furious. He threatens to divorce her unless she backs off.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mathura Das the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.
* WetBlanketWife: The Major’s wife has her father pull strings to get her husband transferred away from the front lines to a regional headquarters to keep him safe. Kuldip who wants to fight in the war, is furious. He threatens to divorce her unless she backs off.
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* HoldTheLine: Half the movie is about Major Chandipur’s Chandipur's company holding the line for an entire night against Pak armor.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: MathuraDas Das, the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He company,[[note]]He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] privilege[[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.
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''Border'' is a 1997 Hindi language Bollywood war film, starring an ensemble cast including Creator/SunnyDeol, Creator/JackieShroff, Creator/SunilShetty and Creator/AjayDevgunn. It is about the famed Battle of Longewalla during the [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict 1971 Indo-Pak War]], where a single heavy weapons company under the command of Major Kuldeep Singh Chandipur successfully held out for an entire night against an onslaught by a whole regiment of Pakistani armor, until the cloud cover cleared and air support could be mobilized.
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''Border'' is a 1997 Hindi language Bollywood war film, starring an ensemble cast including Creator/SunnyDeol, Creator/JackieShroff, Creator/SunilShetty and Creator/AjayDevgunn. It is about the famed Battle of Longewalla during the [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict 1971 Indo-Pak War]], where a single heavy weapons company under the command of Major Kuldeep Singh Chandipur Chandpuri successfully held out for an entire night against an onslaught by a whole regiment of Pakistani armor, until the cloud cover cleared and air support could be mobilized.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Major Chandpuri tears into Mathura Das for boasting about being sent home on supposedly compassionate leave, leaving his squadmates to fight a battle without him.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Mathura Dad’s wife has contracted it. The army grants him compassionate leave to care for her.
* IChooseToStay: Captain Bhairon Singh of the BSF [[note]] India’s Border Patrol [[/note]] refuses to leave Longewalla with his men, choosing instead to remain with the army and help defend the base.
* IChooseToStay: Captain Bhairon Singh of the BSF [[note]] India’s Border Patrol [[/note]] refuses to leave Longewalla with his men, choosing instead to remain with the army and help defend the base.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mathura Das the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mathura Das the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.process.
* WetBlanketWife: The Major’s wife has her father pull strings to get her husband transferred away from the front lines to a regional headquarters to keep him safe. Kuldip who wants to fight in the war, is furious. He threatens to divorce her unless she backs off.
* WetBlanketWife: The Major’s wife has her father pull strings to get her husband transferred away from the front lines to a regional headquarters to keep him safe. Kuldip who wants to fight in the war, is furious. He threatens to divorce her unless she backs off.
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* HoldTheLine: Half the movie is about Major Chandipur’s company holding the line for an entire night against Pak armor.
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* HoldTheLine: Half the movie is about Major Chandipur’s company holding the line for an entire night against Pak armor.armor.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mathura Das the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mathura Das the soldier who had abandoned his company [[note]] He was granted leave on compassionate grounds, but misused the privilege [[/note]] returns at the last moment to install a spring into a Machine Gun and dies in the process.
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''Border'' is a 1997 Hindi language Bollywood war film, starring an ensemble cast including Creator/SunnyDeol, Creator/JackieShroff, Creator/SunilShetty and Creator/AjayDevgunn. It is about the famed Battle of Longewalla during the [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict 1971 Indo-Pak War]], where a single heavy weapons company under the command of Major Kuldeep Singh Chandipur successfully held out for an entire night against an onslaught by a whole regiment of Pakistani armor, until the cloud cover cleared and air support could be mobilized.
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!! ''Border'' contains examples of:
* TheCavalry: The company is saved by a squadron of Hawker Hunter ground attack who arrive just in time to mop up the remaining enemy tanks, just as they run out of ammo.
* DeathFromAbove: Hawker Hunters were subsonic jet powered ground attack aircraft, and in this case, they plink tanks.
* InterServiceRivalry: Major Chandipur engages in some friendly ribbing with a fighter pilot played by Shroff.
* HoldTheLine: Half the movie is about Major Chandipur’s company holding the line for an entire night against Pak armor.
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!! ''Border'' contains examples of:
* TheCavalry: The company is saved by a squadron of Hawker Hunter ground attack who arrive just in time to mop up the remaining enemy tanks, just as they run out of ammo.
* DeathFromAbove: Hawker Hunters were subsonic jet powered ground attack aircraft, and in this case, they plink tanks.
* InterServiceRivalry: Major Chandipur engages in some friendly ribbing with a fighter pilot played by Shroff.
* HoldTheLine: Half the movie is about Major Chandipur’s company holding the line for an entire night against Pak armor.
