as the reason for the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at  Balaklava during the Crimean War. However, shortly before the film  was started, someone pointed out that the Sepoy Rebellion took place  three years AFTER the Crimean War. The forts name was hurriedly  changed to Chukoti, and instead of mutinous Indian soldiers, the  besiegers were changed to tribesmen of a fictitious warlord called  Surat Khan.