Ghazi Shaheed | |
Director: | Kazim Pasha[1] |
Producer: | Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) |
Starring: | Shabbir Jan Mishi Khan Ayesha Khan Humayun Saeed Rizwan Wasti Adnan Jilani |
Music: | PTV Music |
Cinematography: | Tanweer Malik |
Editing: | Ghulam Qadir Khan |
Studio: | PTV Studios |
Distributor: | Techno Time Production |
Runtime: | 120 minutes |
Country: | Pakistan |
Language: | Urdu |
Ghazi Shaheed is a 1998 thriller drama film based on the disasters that befell the PNS Ghazi on Bay of Bengal. It was directed by Kazim Pasha and stars Shabbir Jan as Commander Zafar Khan and Adnan Jilani as Lieutenant-Commander Pervez Hameed. The film was financed and produced by the ISPR and the Navy and was filmed mostly in the Arabian Sea.
This film revolves around the crew of PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy's Tench class submarine that intruded in India at the coast of Vishakapatnam during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It ventured into Indian waters to destroy on the shores of Visakhapatnam.[2] [3] [4] 92 men were killed while serving their country aboard PNS Ghazi, the first Pakistani submarine and also the only one at that time with the ability to lay mines and a long range.