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Tom Clancy,WEB Griffin and Alistair McLean. Entire generations in India have grown up reading about the exploits of literary daredevils in the West.

Tom Clancy,WEB Griffin and Alistair McLean. Entire generations in India have grown up reading about the exploits of literary daredevils in the West. For years there was no local representation to turn to,until the release of Mukul Devas Lashkar,in 2008. Widely recognised as Indias first military thriller,the ex-army officers work is now being turned into a film by Shubho Shekhar Bhattacharjee (left,in the

picture). I started reading Lashkar around

midnight and it was so enthralling that I was

unable to put it down. Halfway through,I knew I had to turn it into a movie, says Bhattacharjee.

The filmmaker has recently received the rights for the book and is eagerly waiting for the shooting to begin. The first draft of the script is ready and we will hopefully begin pitching the script to actors within a month. The shoots will be

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arduous because the plot demands that the movie should have a lot of real-scene shots. We

are looking at a August 2012 release,

states Bhattacharjee.

Excited about the project,Deva says that he always expected his books to be translated into movies. I never had any doubt that Lashkar would be made into a film, says the author. kartikeya Ramanathan

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