"Death strikes where his shadow falls," wrote Sanjay Dutt, the veteran Bollywood actor who plays the Afghan leader, Ahmad Shah Abdali, in the film Panipat, which opened in cinemas on Friday.

Panipat is the depiction of an epic battle between the Marathas and Afghan King Ahmad Shah Abdali (Sanjay Dutt). Sadashiv Rao Bhau (Arjun Kapoor) is the commander-in-chief of the Maratha army in ...