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fought World War I to appear in film  Wednesday, 9 July 2014 -
11:32am IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI   • dna Research &
Archives  Heartwarming stories, including romantic ones, about
Indian soldiers who fought in the First World War as part of the
British Army, culled from archives and personal testimonies,
feature in a new documentary.  The upcoming feature-length film
"Mademoiselle France Pleure" (Miss France is in tears) attempts
to piece together the lesser known fact about the 1.4 million
Indian soldiers and civilian workers who came to France and
Belgium to defend France's freedom against invasion.  "The
soldiers faced various hardships, casualties and diseases in the
war. The feature-length documentary attempts to show their
specific situations within the British Army and hospitals," says
Vijay Singh, an Indian filmmaker and novelist based in Paris.
Singh, who has shot critically acclaimed feature films like
"Jaya Ganga" and "One Dolla