Major dramatizes the life of Sandeep Unnikrishnan, an officer of India's National Security Guard whose actions during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks led to India's highest peacetime gallantry honor, the Ashoka Chakra, being awarded to him in January 2009.
What is Major about?
Sashi Kiran Tikka's film traces Unnikrishnan's path from a childhood shaped by discipline and family expectation into the elite ranks of the NSG, the commando unit called in when the November 2008 assault on Mumbai's hotels and public spaces overwhelmed local police. The film follows him through training, deployment, and the chaotic hours of the siege itself, when NSG teams moved room by room through the Taj Mahal Palace hotel to reach hostages trapped by the attackers. Alongside the combat narrative, the film spends time on the people around him, family, fellow officers, and the ordinary civilians caught inside the hotel, building toward the citation that made him one of the conflict's most decorated names. Adivi Sesh, who also co-wrote the screenplay, carries the title role opposite a cast led by Sobhita Dhulipala, Saiee Manjrekar, Prakash Raj, Murali Sharma, Revathi, Vinay Nallakadi, and Anish Kuruvilla.
About the cast
Adivi Sesh anchors the film in the lead role, with Sobhita Dhulipala and Saiee Manjrekar in key supporting parts. Prakash Raj, Murali Sharma, Revathi, Vinay Nallakadi, and Anish Kuruvilla round out an ensemble drawn largely from Telugu and Hindi cinema, reflecting the film's bilingual production.
Context & significance
Major arrived in theaters in 2022, more than a decade after the events it depicts, as part of a wave of Indian films revisiting the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the security response that followed. Director Sashi Kiran Tikka builds the film around Unnikrishnan's NSG record specifically, narrowing a citywide crisis into one officer's chain of decisions. At 150 minutes, the film has room to move between the barracks-and-training passages and the extended hotel sequences that make up its back half.
Watching Major on Ktime
Major streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it can be watched either way depending on preference. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching, with no separate purchase or trial period involved. The film sits alongside K-Time's wider library of Indian action and biographical drama titles, browsable in a Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences.