India, Aug. 18 -- Mihir Ahuja has stepped into a very different world with Netflix's Operation Safed Sagar: The Untold Story of the Kargil War. The actor plays Flying Officer CH Bal Reddy, popularly known as Baldy, one of the Indian Air Force officers featured in the series based on the IAF's aerial campaign during the 1999 Kargil War.

For viewers who know Ahuja primarily as Jughead Jones from Zoya Akhtar's The Archies, the role marks a striking change. Before The Archies, he had already appeared in projects including Super 30 and Made in Heaven Season 2, but the Netflix film gave him his biggest visibility yet.

So, who is Mihir Ahuja, and how did the actor go from playing Jughead to portraying an IAF officer involved in one of India's ...