1962: The War in the Hills

The title suggests that this is a mini series based on 1962 war, hence one would expect that to be the central plot . Unfortunately this show delves too much into the personal lives of the soldiers thereby making this show extremely tedious and boring.

The strongest side of this series is the script. In this series based on the true incident, on one hand, the glimpse of the private life of the soldiers is shown.

The human side is shown. At the same time, India-China has shown fierce war on the other side. Director Mahesh Manjrekar and writer Charudatta Aacharya have been successful in maintaining interest by connecting the episode.

The screenplay of Charudatta Acharya is mainly divided into India-China skirmishes, political compulsions, and the personal life of the soldiers.

The narration uses the narration of Major Suraj Singh's wife Shagun Singh (Mahi Gill), who tells her Millennial grandchildren and grandchildren about the story of the war and the turmoil in the personal life of C-Company jawans Is telling about.

The early episodes of 1962 The War In The Hills have a slow edge and pace, but the last four episodes pick up the rhythm and the series starts engaging.

Had the series been made in fewer episodes, the result would have been more impressive, as the personal life events of the jawans are very filmy and taut. They slow down the pace of 1962 The War In The Hills series.

Starcast and language make the series a bit weak. If you like war drama 1962- The War in the Hills will not disappoint you.

Most of the actors having Marathi accent while the story is of Haryana...

If u are an army fan u will be disappointed to the core. The director lost an opportunity to make a great series. Battle of rezang-la is an event which could have easily been made on the lines of Band of Brothers, could have tried at least. Secondly, not using original names and character again keeps it away from being realistic.

And at last Indian industries' forever love for involving unnecessary drama in every war series is beyond explanation. A war movie must include war emotions of a soldier which makes it realsitic and engaging.

Poor direction, okay acting, poor dialogues. Somehow I managed to watched the 1st episode in hope that it's just the plot building and it would get better later. But, 2nd episode is super slow as well. I guess the director needs to understand the difference between tv serial and season. The director got lost between between romance and war. It's not worth spending 6-7 hours to watch it. Sorry!!