Each episode of the Army-based anthology series Bravehearts, streaming on Dice Media’s YouTube channel, has garnered more than two million views. “The stories resonated with the audience,” explains Sankalp Raj Tripathi, creative director of the series which released in June.
Bravehearts breaks the mould of conventional Army-based cinema or series which is inevitably war-based. “We want to show what people [in the services] go through, the stories we don’t usually see on screen. We wanted to show the internal process – the anxiety and conflict people feel. There are enough stories about war, the battlefield has been romanticised enough. These are human stories,” adds Sankalp. The themes span love, loss, disappointment, victory, joy and finding oneself.
