Actor Emraan Hashmi says the idea behind his upcoming film Ground Zero, based on the heroism of a real-life BSF officer, was to tell an honest story without going overboard with jingoistic elements. The action-thriller, produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, chronicles the story of BSF officer Narendra Nath Dhar Dubey, who led the operation to track the mastermind behind the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Parliament and Akshardham Temple. “The whole idea from my first discussions of getting into a film like this was not to go overboard with the jingoistic angle. I think that looks a little forced and over the top. The audience, while watching the film, also feels a sense of being disconnected from the truth of the story,” Hashmi told PTI in an interview. The actor, known for films such as Awarapan, Murder, Jannat, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, The Dirty Picture, Shanghai, and Tiger 3, said they wanted to stay true to the real-life story as much as possible. “We wanted to tell the story …