Overview

• Pre-production and intensive physical training are underway as the team prepares to begin principal photography this month in Ladakh
• The shooting schedule spans 55–60 days, featuring 20 days at high altitude and seven to eight days of hand-to-hand combat sequences in icy water
• Under director Apoorva Lakhia, Salman Khan will portray Colonel B. Santosh Babu in this dramatization of the 2020 Galwan Valley border clash
• Makers have passed on the traditional Eid al-Fitr 2026 slot because three major films occupy that date, instead aiming for a January release with June as a fallback
• Producers hope to meet a January premiere if post-production follows the tight shoot timeline, otherwise locking in a June 2026 debut