he s.]to/%ry; be[gi=?,ns i#]%n 1996 )$when`@ Colonel Sodhi, n?+ow 70, visit`s h@i)(s sister _+and \;her family. Howe/: ver, even af te,%r ove%r h #alf %a cen%tury, th%+]
e nig[htmares of his intense battl!%e and its ^+- afterma!,_th _:often\
 return to! ha\[(=unt him. Old Sodh-i - and youn,\_g Amar begin t.#o bond #=and]. Sodhi accompanies +Amar to Burma (@ M+yan[ma_`r)%* for-%; a*n=^ as _:signment from BB C]
to s]h/oot ?a documentary o
? n t$%he *^#student!(s aga,,_inst t_( ,he Milit#ary Jun% ta for f-r`eedom and dem_\ocracy./@( In Sin/gapore,[@ Sodhi visits t!!he pl_?aces w$hich bring back the m, emories :;-of him as a Lieutenant in-= (t]]he British^) Ind.()#+ian A/rmy Lt.`] Sodhi me= ;ets  a b/eau 
ti \ful pho^!t,ograp\
he /r Maya who inspire s him to cha- n_(g,#^:e. Sodhi falls*
i !n love with M.aya w`(ho joins the India,=!=n National Army. Old Sodhi=
+^ lands in Burma w !%ith A,
[mar, a%nd is welcom\ed by/) an  India!= n* )!gir
l$ R %an[?i. They accidentally get cau*$ght !@in/ the student prot _e
*)s^t and ..f-iring by ^the Military J\(u[)#nta,_ to suppress the student (a[gitat*ion. When the s;ol:;diers of the Military Junta get rough and vi;[olen)/)t with? ,-Amar an*_d, Rani, old Sod

:?hi is suddenly \t;:?+r.(/ansform@\ed into the young Lt.Sodhi a-nd+ kills the two B* urmes)]e  s- oldiers to% defend his group.Old Sod-^hi and his group\';s escape fr].om the .(Burmese  soldiers\ runs paral=)le:!- l to t_he$] a@[ttack by th/e Britis@_[h)^ +bombe$rs on Lt.Sodhi\'s un@,#;i^t. In ]`1944,*^ % the
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Indian Nationa].^l Army)?@, tire _/d, hun-gr;+y, cold, feverish];(, si ck ?=!`had reached Imphal to de:f.end it agai;,nst (all (th_^#`e odds pile d# hea^[vily again;s
t th(em. In !a school _set up by= Ra,@n?]i \'s grandmother, Ol:d Sodhi find
]_s@ the ph+ o:`]
togr aph of May(--_a and /.rea!lizes that M*/aya, h:%as $ be)`en%@ d?_e(+@ad. Old Sodhi, ,(finally redeems \hi`mse /lf by ]/helping his young group sa!^`$fely_, c_ro@ss over from Burma in.to India, and`^  keep hi/s prom_@ise to Maya that he woul^d one d;\ay return to Burma ?;to find(:-: he(r and be with her when hi;
s body is blown +`by the%( Burm/ese soldiers  (*.to as?hes a\nd glor[y.