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Mera Fauji Calling

2021 film directed by Aaryaan Saxena

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ77906247 ↗
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Mera Fauji Calling (transl. My Soldier Calling) is a 2021 Hindi-language action drama film written and directed by Aaryaan Saxena and produced by Vikram Singh and Ovez Shaikh under the banners of Running Horses Films and Ovez Productions. The film bankrolled by Jimmy Satish Asija, has ensemble which includes Sharman Joshi, Bidita Bag, Mugdha Godse, Zarina Wahab, and Shishir Sharma. The film showcases the story of a soldier who sacrifices his life in an attack and the struggle of his family after the attack. Inspired by aftermath of 2019 Pulwama attack, it also explores the various aspects of the life of soldiers and the struggle of their families.

The film was released in cinemas on 11 March 2021.

Cast

Sharman Joshi as Abhishek

Vikram Singh as Rajveer Singh

Bidita Bag as Sakshi Singh

Mugdha Godse as Paridhi

Zarina Wahab as Maa ji, Rajveer Singh's mother

Shishir Sharma as Major Roy

Mahi Soni as Aaradhya

Ritu Shree as Bhoomi

Abhijita Kashyap as Kriti

Sidhi Jain as Suman

Rizwan Kalshyan as Jai Singh

Soundtrack

The film's music was composed by Harpriet Singh Vig, Sajjad Ali Chandwani and Vijay Verma while lyrics written by Pooja Saini, Traditional, A. M. Turaz, Rajesh Manthan and Shakeel Azmi.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mera Fauji Calling” as 2021 film directed by Aaryaan Saxena. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021-03-11. The account is most persuasive where Mera, Fauji and Calling can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 film directed by Aaryaan Saxena. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q77906247. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mera Fauji Calling” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.