Director: Mani Ratnam
Writer: Mani Ratnam
Starring: Karthi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shraddha Srinath
Production company: Madras Talkies
Production service: Clockwork Film Production
Locations: Stara Planina “Old Mountain”, Batajnica airport
Kaatru Veliyidai is an Indian romance film in the Tamil-language. Set during the Kargil War, a fighter pilot named Varun recalls his romance with Leela–the doctor who nursed him back to health–while being held prisoner in Pakistan.
Mani Ratnam and his team sought out locations to resemble Kashmir both due to the difficult climate and because they were denied permission to shoot action sequences involving aircraft there. The snowy Stara Planina “Old Mountain” in Serbia was selected as the location to stand in for a mountainous range of Kashmir, India. The Batajnica airport in Belgrade was also utilized by the team for different scenes.
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