ACTRESS Dia Mirza, who played Wing Commander B S 'Tony' Dhanoa’s wife Kamalpreet in the TV series Operation Safed Sagar, has called essaying the role a ‘privilege of a lifetime’. Operation Safed Sagar: The Untold Story of the Kargil War also stars Jimmy Shergill, Dia Mirza, Siddharth, Harssh A Singh, Adil Hussain, Pawan Chopra and others. The series is based on Operation Safed Sagar, a mission by Indian Air Force during the Kargil War. Dia shared a string of images of herself on Instagram. She first shared a picture of herself with Jimmy Sheirgill as Wing Commander B S 'Tony' Dhanoa and Kamalpreet Dhanoa. She then went on to share pictures posing with the real life hero and his family. “As artists, we don’t make the parts we play, the parts make the sum total of who we become in this journey of life. Playing Kamalpreet Dhanoa in Operation Safed Sagar is a privilege of a lifetime.Thank you Kamal Ma’am for being who you are. I will carry you in my heart forever,” Dia wrote as the caption. She added: “Tony Sir, I am in complete awe of you.

 

Jimmy, it was an honour working alongside side you. I cannot imagine anyone else as Tony Dhanoa.” The Sanju actress shared insights into the emotional depth and strength of her character. Speaking about portraying Kamalpreet Kaur Dhanoa, Mirza said, “Kamal Maam's part in this story was one of an anchor, somebody who held the women together, who really connected them as a force while their husbands were on the mission and what it meant to her and the women to experience what it was.” “Even the women that marry into the Air Force don't know what to expect. They may hear stories but you can never really fully prepare for reality when it occurs.” Dia added, “I think one of the big takeaways for me as a wife and as a woman, and as a mother was this line that 'every single day when their husbands step out of the home they bid them goodbye with a smile on their face even if they've had the biggest fight the night before' and it's a powerful reality to be rooted in and a very very terrifying one and like Amrita so eloquently explained that it's impossible for us to ever truly know but we can try and I think we did.” The series is streaming on Netflix.