There are infrequent mild sex references, which include a passing comment about a character being a virgin.

In one rather comical scene a soldier is implied to urinate from off of the top of a fortress onto the ground beneath him in order to offend his opponents whom are on the ground beneath him attempting to infiltrate the fortress. However the urination itself is not shown.

There is strong violence throughout, as character's are shot, stabbed, slashed, beaten, blown-up and hit over the head with wooden clubs and boulders resulting in large spurts and clouds of blood. The violence is often focused upon usually being presented in slow-motion with strong visual detail and takes up a predominate part of the film.

Scenes also show dead and wounded men, some of whom have wounds leaking blood and weapons impaled through their bodies.

There are also scenes in which wounded men dribble blood.

In one scene, a man on fire approaches enemy forces, and his skin becomes blackened as he is consumed by flames.

During action scenes men are shot, slashed, stabbed and battered, this is often accompanied by blood spurts.

A man peeps through a hole on a door, and gets shot in the eye.

There is a muted use of strong language 'f**ker' which is mistaken for a common Hindi phrase, the Hindi phrase is then repeated several other times throughout the film as a comical play on words.

There is also use of milder terms (for example, 'bloody', 'screw', 'hell', 'goddamn').

Hukka used by Afghans while discussing and planning attack.

As it's a film based on a real-life battle, there is strong violence and the tone is overall intense.