Bhuj: The Pride of India takes a portion out of 1971 India-Pakistan war to serve a story bursting with patriotism, songs and the heavy-duty dialogues that go with it. Ajay plays IAF Squadron captain Vijay Karnik, who was the manager of the Bhuj airport at the time of the war, and details how he saved the area from the Pakistani army by re-building an entire IAF airbase along with the help of 300 women from a local village in Madhapar.

At the centre of Jaya Nigam’s life are her home, motherhood and a job at the railways. She juggles life between her seven-year-old son, Adi, household chores and her humdrum job.