The city of Visakhapatnam is known for being the home for the Eastern Naval Command, having the largest integrated steel plant and a 1,000-year-old Simhachalam temple. But one thing that has put this once sleepy fishing town into the global map was the sinking of Pakistani naval submarine PNS Ghazi off the coast of Visakhapatnam on December 4, 1971.
Ever since, December 4 is celebrated as Navy Day and a monument ‘Victory at sea’ adorned by an eternal flame stands tall on the Beach Road.
But the sinking of PNS Ghazi is a known story and in fact in 2017, Sankalp Reddy had done a film The Ghazi Attack, starring Rana Dagubatti, Atul Kulkarni and Kay Kay Menon.
