New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- There's a scene at the halfway mark of Sriram Raghavan's Ikkis (2026) that encapsulates the film's pacifist mindset. It's 2001, just a couple of years after the India-Pakistan war in Kargil. Retired Brigadier Madan Lal Khetarpal (the late Dharmendra) is in Pakistan, having made the journey seemingly to visit Sargodha, his hometown. But he has another motive as well, to see the place where his son Arun Khetarpal was martyred during the 1971 India-Pakistan war. Khetarpal, relaxing with his hosts, is rudely interrupted by a disabled Pakistani ex-soldier named Jahangir (Deepak Dobriyal), who calls him an "Indian dog", ranting about his entire regiment being killed by the Indian Army.

Khetarpal gets up and embraces Jahang...