Mumbai, May 20 -- After the success of his film 'Jaat', actor Randeep Hooda has acquired the film rights to 'Operation Khukri'.

Hooda has acquired the official film rights to 'Operation Khukri: The Untold Story of the Indian Army's Bravest Peacekeeping Mission Abroad' by Major General Rajpal Punia and Damini Punia, reported Variety.

It is a military drama about one of the Indian Army's most audacious operations on foreign soil.

The film 'Operation Khukri' focuses on the real-life events of 2000, when 233 Indian soldiers were held hostage by rebel forces in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The subsequent high-risk rescue mission that followed.

Hooda will play Major General Raj Pal Punia (then a young Company Commander of the 14th Mechanised ...