Border (I) (1997)

Akshaye Khanna: 2nd Lieutenant Dharamvir Singh Bhan

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Quotes 

• Major Kuldeep Singh : [laughs madly] 

  Dharamvir : May I ask you a question if you don't mind, Sir? There must be some difference between bravery and madness?

  Major Kuldeep Singh : What you call madness comes from faith. And I have full faith that God decides life and death and God is with me, not with the enemy.

• Lt. Colonel : He is second lieutenant, Dharamvir, your second in command.

  [Kuldeep and Dharamvir shake hands] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Sir, you did not tell me that there is a child too in between 120 men.

  Lt. Colonel : [Shocked] 

  Dharamvir : You are right sir. I am a child. My father was a kid too when he entered the army. But he was such a lovely child that in the '65 war God called him and made him sit on his lap.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Your father's name?

  Dharamvir : Major Veer Bhan.

  Lt. Colonel : Ok Kuldeep. Best of luck.

  [Lt. Colonel and Kuldeep salute each other] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Dharamvir, tell the company to mount.

  Dharamvir : Sir!

  [Dharamvir turns toward Mathura Das] 

  Dharamvir : Subedar-sir, get the company mounted.

  Naib Subedar Mathura Das : COMPANY, MOUNT!

  [Company mounts] 

  Major Kuldeep Singh : I knew Major Veer Bhan very well. I can't call him a friend since he was my senior. But our relationship was no less than a friendship. How is your mother?

  Dharamvir : She is fine. But she can't see.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : Can't see?

  Dharamvir : The light of her eyes flowed away with tears.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [Consoles Dharmvir]  I'm sorry son.

• Captain Bhairav Singh : [Walking towards Dharamvir]  What's the matter, lieutenant sir? You're not sleeping.

  [Bhairav Singh sit beside Dharamvir] 

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Dharamvir, your father had become a martyr in 1965's war.

  Dharamvir : After all he was in the army.

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Do you really think that Indian army was responsible for your father's death?

  Dharamvir : [after a brief pause]  Yes.

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Then why did you join the army?

  Dharamvir : Giving me the oath of his love. My father had told me to join the army only.

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Why did he do this? Because the love of country was the greatest love for him.

  Dharamvir : And in the obsession of that love he tied son in the chain of this uniform. He gave me a gun and told me to kill the soldier before me. Soldiers who like me, is some mother's son. I've never seen him in my life. He has never wronged me. Whose name also I don't know. After all, why? For what?

  Captain Bhairav Singh : Because if you don't kill him, then he'll kill you. He'll cross your body and step on your motherland. And your free motherland will again be tied in the chains of slavery. We don't even glance at other's land. But we're not so worthless that somebody glances at our motherland and we just keep quiet. No, sir. No. Never.

  Major Kuldeep Singh : [Suddenly from behind]  Be alert! Keep your eyes on the enemy. Don't even blink your eyes.