Neerja is a biological film, which is based on the life of neerja bhannot who was shot dead by terrorist. The movie revolves around the actual hijacking of pan am flight 73 in karachi, pakistan on sep5 1986. It is about how flight attendant neerja fought for the lives of her passenger. Saiwan quardras has written the script for neerja. Atul kasbekar has jointly produced neerja with shanti sivaran