Is Salman Khan ’s The Bull based on Brigadier Farouk Bulsara’s feat in Maldives?- Exclusive | Hindi Movie News – Times of India

Salman Khan is riding high on the success of Tiger 3, the film has already crossed more than Rs 270 crores nett at the Indian Box Office. The actor will now move on to the next film, which is going to be his first collaboration with Karan Johar after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, it will be directed by Vishu Vardhan who last directed Sidharth Malhotrain Shershaah.It is being reported that he will be playing a Paramilitary officer in the film and he will be having a certain look in the film for which he will have to lose weight.

Now the buzz going around the Bollywood corridors is that the film is based on the life of Indian Army’s Brigadier Farouk Bulsara who was instrumental in crushing the coup that took place in Maldives in 1988.
In 1988, a coup d’état attempt in the Maldives involved Maldivians, led by businessman Abdullah Luthufi, and armed mercenaries from the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), a Tamil secessionist group in Sri Lanka. Indian intervention in Operation Cactus successfully foiled the attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government.
The president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom reached out for help to many nations from Pakistan to Sri Lanka to Singapore to the United States to the United Kingdom and finally turned to India and within 16 hours, India was ready for its operation. Thus Operation Cactus was launched, which was led by Brigadier Farouk Bulsara.
Not many are aware that the script for the film has been doing the rounds of Bollywood producers for quite some time, back in 2022 Shahid Kapoor was locked in to play the lead but the film never took place.