CAST- Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Yogendra Tiku, Shekhar Ravjiani
DIRECTOR- Ram Madhvani
RUNNING TIME- 122 minutes
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? -
We know NEERJA BHANOT’S story, but are curious nevertheless to see how it unfolds on the silver screen.
Will the director go in for over dramatic scenes in the name of creative liberty? Or, are we going to witness a film that is too filmy to be inspired by real events?
But minutes into the film, all doubts are swept away. The movie is likely to be memorable for most, especially for Sonam Kapoor fans.
This movie is about Courage- it’s a virtue everyone possesses, but only a few choose to use it. NEERJA BHANOT was one of them and that’s what makes her life so remarkable. Ram Madhvani’s film, named after the protagonist, is an intensely woven tale of the young airhostess who saved hundreds of lives when her flight was hijacked by terrorists in 1986. After walking out of a bad and abusive marriage, Neerja( sonam) is taking a shot at rediscovering life through her work at Pan Am and modelling.
A few days before her 23rd birthday, her flight gets hijacked in Karachi, putting the lives of all the passengers at risk. As her distraught parents( Shabana and Tiku) cope with the situation back home in India, Neerja is stepping beyond her own limits, displaying levels of bravery she herself didn’t know existed within her. The film recaptures the drama inside the aircraft that continued for over 17 hours, in which Neerja sacrificed her life. She was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the country’s highest award for bravery and valour!