The producers are now in a tizzy to produce a film on 'Operation Sindoor', race to get the title registered starts!

Films have always borrowed from the nation's war history, transforming actual combat into cinematic victories. Films such as Uri: The Surgical Strike and Shershaah have demonstrated the way national security stories can hit the chord of the audience and sweep the box office.

A viral Reddit post disclosed that various production companies are already competing to register the title "Operation Sindoor" with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. A screenshot of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks website indicates an increasing number of title claims, a sign of a rush to claim cinematic rights to this dramatic occurrence.

This madness reflects a common trend in Indian cinema — when geopolitical happenings in real-time trigger a race to produce reel-time dramas. For the film industry, such narratives not only evoke patriotic fervor but also offer a chance for enormous commercial success.

Bollywood's intervention into the India-Pakistan conflict is not recent. Classic war films such as Border (1997), depicting the Battle of Longewala in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, established the trend for big-budget patriotic films. These movies have shown that war-themed stories can be combined with action, emotion, and patriotism — a combination that strikes a chord in the Indian psyche.