Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur announced their next film with Airlift director Raja Krishna Menon. The film stars Ishaan Khatter in a first of its kind action-packed war film with a celebrated army tank.

In this heroic tank battle film, Ishaan is set to take on the role of war veteran Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who, along with his siblings, fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971. It was with this battle, which took place in Garibpur, that India for the first time infiltrated and entered enemy land, thus leading to the liberation of our neighbour Bangladesh.

The film titled Pippa is written by Ravinder Randhawa, Tanmay Mohan and Raja Krishna Menon. It is based on the book The Burning Chaffees, written by the Brigadier himself. The film’s unique title highlights the magnificent Russian amphibious war tank called the PT-76, popularly and lovingly known as “Pippa”.

In their Pippa, Balram and his tank squadron fought the riveting 48-hour-long Battle of Garibpur that laid the foundation for and influenced the outcome of the impending war in India’s favour.

Director Raja Krishna Menon shared that there is going to be some never-seen-before tank war action which is extremely thrilling to him as a filmmaker.

Pippa, produced by RSVP and Roy Kapur Films, will hit theatres late next year.