Like most entrepreneurs who witnessed the partition of India, my father Mr . Ramanand Sagar rose up the hard way, working as a truck cleaner, manufacturing soap at home with his wife, studying and providing bread for the family in Lahore, and finally became an acclaimed media magnate, now known in every household in the country for his series adaptation of the Ramayana.

Like most entrepreneurs who witnessed the partition of India, my father Mr . Ramanand Sagar rose up the hard way, working as a truck cleaner, manufacturing soap at home with his wife, studying and providing bread for the family in Lahore, and finally became an acclaimed media magnate, now known in every household in the country for his series adaptation of the Ramayana.

1971 was a 2007 directorial movie debut by Amrit Sagar. Set against the backdrop of the 1971 India-Pakistan war for Bangladesh's independence from West Pakistan, the film went on to win the  National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi at the 55th National Film Awards.