Bhumi Pednekkar on armed forces

Bollywood actress opens up about her Sikkim border visit, expressing gratitude for the armed forces and their sacrifices

Actress Bhumi Pednekkar is currently on a three-day visit to Sikkim. The actress spoke about her visit to the border and shared that it deepened her respect for India’s armed forces, sharing that civilians “don’t really do that much back for them.”

Talking to the media during her visit, the actress spoke about her deep sense of patriotism and that she feels deeply indebted to the Indian armed forces. “I’m a very, very patriotic person. I was very excited about visiting the border and once you go there you just realize how much our armed forces do for us and we as civilians don’t really do that much back for them,” said Bhumi. 

She added: “Every time I have an opportunity to interact with anybody from the armed forces I just feel so deeply indebted and full of gratitude, and being at the border, I was like that’s China.” “I went through the history of everything that had happened over there, spoke to so many officers. It was very cold, so breathtakingly beautiful up there and I was just filled with this sense of extreme pride for everything that our country does to protect us.”