Film & Footage · Batalik Sector, 1999

THE BATTLE
ON FILM

The written record tells you what happened. These accounts, filmed years apart by different hands, show and tell it — the terrain, the Commanding Officer's own account, and the shape the war has taken in memory since.

In His Own Words

Brig O.P. Yadav, YSM

1 Bihar's Commanding Officer during Op Vijay — the same officer whose book supplied the verified citation and Point 4268 account elsewhere on this site — speaking directly about the battalion's fight in Batalik.

Brig O.P. Yadav, YSM — In His Own Words

1 Bihar's Commanding Officer during Op Vijay shares the battalion's role in the Kargil War in detail, and the story of the unsung soldiers who fought and sacrificed alongside him.

Commanding in Chaos

Major General Yash Mor, SM, breaks down the operational reality of the Kargil War through the lens of Brig O.P. Yadav's leadership in Batalik — pulled from the plains with no acclimatisation, no intelligence, and a fractured start, through to the recapture of Jubar Ridge.

General Context

The Batalik Sector and the Wider War

These cover the Batalik sector and the Kargil War broadly — the terrain, the campaign, and how it's remembered — rather than Major Hari's action specifically. Included for the wider picture the citation and battle pages sit inside.

Battle of Batalik

An overview of the Batalik sector fighting during Operation Vijay.

Batalik: Where Courage Fought Gravity

The terrain itself — the Line of Control at Batalik, above 17,000 feet, as it looks today.

Watch on YouTube

NDTV's 1999 Kargil War Coverage

Contemporary news coverage of the war as it happened, revisited. Opens on YouTube — the broadcaster has disabled in-page playback for this video.

THE BATTLEON FILM