“WHEN IT comes to a film on the World War, it should be a world film,” says Vijay Singh, the maker of Farewell My Indian Soldier. Produced by Silhouette Films and Rajya Sabha TV, the film captures, perhaps for the first time on screen, the travails of 140,000 Indian soldiers who fought for the Allies in World War I. It also traces their journey from Marseille, Ypres, Brighton, Paris, Lille to Chamba, Hardwar and Jaipur.
The film is narrated through the character of a young French woman, played by Paloma Coquant, who is on a journey to find information about her great-great grandfather, an Indian who came to Europe to fight in the war. The film carries interviews with historians, World War I experts and military generals, apart from live…