Kargil War

1999 conflict between India and Pakistan

2004 film by Farhan Akhtar

2003 film by J. P. Dutta

2022 film directed by Advait Chandan

celebrated every year in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes.

2020 film directed by Sharan Sharma

Recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1975–1999)

Shershaah () is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language biographical war film based on the life of Vikram Batra, martyred in action in the Kargil War, directed by Vishnuvardhan in his Hindi film debut and written by Sandeep Shrivastava. The film was produced by Dharma Productions and Kaash Entertainment, with Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Shabbir Boxwala, Ajay Shah and Himanshu Gandhi serving as producers. Sidharth Malhotra stars in a dual role as Vikram Batra and his twin brother Vishal, with Kiara Advani as his girlfriend Dimple Cheema.

2002 film by Pankaj Parashar

2017 Tamil film directed by Mani Ratnam

2005 film by Mani Shankar

2011 film by Pankaj Kapur

Batalik is a village and military base in Kargil district of Ladakh Union territory in India, located in a narrow section of the Indus River valley in Himalayas, close to the Line of Control with India–Pakistan wars and conflicts|Pakistan-administered Baltistan. Batalik is 56 km northeast of Kargil. Administratively, it is a hamlet of the Silmo village (8 km south of Batalik) patwar, which falls under the Kargil tehsil and Sodh block (44 km south of Batalik).

2003 film by Gaurav Pandey

Indian memorial in Ladakh

Gudiya (d. 2 January 2006) was an Indian Muslim woman affected by the Kargil war, whose plight was highlighted by the print and electronic media. She was married to a sapper named Naik Arif in 1999, 10 days before he was called on duty to Kargil. Arif disappeared on September 16, 1999, and was later declared an army deserter before authorities realised he was prisoner of war in Pakistan. Because Arif was thought to be dead, Gudiya's relatives married her to a relative whom she had known since childhood, Taufiq on April 20, 2003, and she became pregnant with his child.