Actor Vicky Kaushal will start shooting for director Meghna Gulzar's movie, based on the life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, in 2021. Manekshaw is the first Field Marshal of India.
Currently, the actor is focusing on the film 'Sardar Udham Singh', directed by Shoojit Sircar and written by Ritesh Shah and Shubendu Bhattacharya.
Field Marshal Manekshaw, or Sam Bahadur as he was popularly known, was born on April 3, 1914, in Amritsar.
He cheated death on a few occasions, both on the battlefield and away from it. He, however, lived on to be a nonagenarian dying in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, on June 27, 2008. The Field Marshal led the country to victory against Pakistan in 1971.
