Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020) [Hindi Movie]

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020) Film

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020) is a Bollywood Hindi Biographical Film releases worldwide on 12 August 2020 on OTT Platform Netflix. Karan Zohar, Zee Studios, Hirro Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta have jointly produced the movie. Sharan Sharma has made his bollywood directorial debut with this film.  He has also co-written the film with Nikhil Malhotra.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)-Budget and Box Office

Netflix acquired the distribution rights of the movie for Rs. 70 Crores on 9 June 2020. Thus, the producers made a huge amount before releasing of the movie. The movie releases on 12 August 2020 on Netfilx.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)- Cast & Crew

Janhavi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi and Angad Bedi are there in the pivotal roles in the film. Vineet Kumar Singh, Manav Vij, Abhiroy Singh, Vicky Ahuja, Maneesh Verma, Riva Arora, Rachana Parlkar, Ashish Bhatt, Raunak Bhinder, Kapil Tilhari and Gurnaaz Mittu.

Director of Photograpy – Manush Nandan

Editor – Nitin Baid

Casting Director – Jogi Mallang

Production Design – Aditya Kanwar

Art Director – Ridhika Kapur

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl -Movie Plot

The film is a biography of the first Indian Female airforce pilot to fly in combat zone during the Kargil war fought between India and Pakistan for the period 3 May 1999 to 26 July 1999.  Janhavi Kapoor is playing the titular role. Pankaj Tropathi is there in the movie as father of Gunjan Saxena and Angad Bedi plays his brother. 

Gunjan Saxena (Janhavi Kapoor), lives in Lacknow, wants to become an airforce pilot. However, it was not an easy task for a girl to become pilot in airforce because no girl could do that miracle before.

Gunjan’s father (Pankaj Tripathi) supports him by saying there is no difference whether a male drives a plane or female because the plane driver is called pilot irrespective of gender.

Gunjan lives with her dream to become a pilot and eventually she became the first woman pilot to enter in the war Zone during Kargil War. She drove Cheeta Helicopter during Kargil War 1999.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)-Music and Songs

John Steward Eduri has composed background score for the movie. Amit Trivedi, Gulraj Singh, Ishaan Chhabra and Vishwajeet Jaykar have composed songs for the film. However, no song has been released yet.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)-Film Review

Biopics are in trend nowadays and after 'Shakuntala Devi', it is the turn of the film 'Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl'  which is the story of India's first Airforce pilot Gunjan Saxena who saved many lives in the 1999 Indo Pak Ward. 

The special thing of the film is that, like the rest of the war-based films, Desh Bhakti's slogan is not chanted nor Gunjan's love affair is shown. So far, Karan Johar, who has made films on marriage, romance, youth and Indians settled abroad, is the producer of this film. This time his company and team have tried very hard to make something different.

The film depicts the story of Gunjan Saxena and her struggle to become a Pilot during the time.  Talking about Hollywood, a lot of films have been made on the Airforce. In Hindi films, a lot of films have been made on Army.

Direction and Screenplay

This is the first film of director Sharan Sharma and he has served the story of the film in an interesting way. Sequences of aerial warfare are shown with much laziness. Moving away from the war sequences of ordinary films, the work of the Air Force is shown in a very but simple way in this film.

The movie is an inspiring one and debutant Sharan Sharma has done exceptionally well and it appears that he has completed the groundwork and only after start making the movie. The writer-director of the film has not let this sensitive person go anywhere

Acting

Jahnavi Kapoor has acted in the film with his own eyes. she has proved herself that she is not here merely because of a star kid. She is full of acting potential and much more to come out soon. 

Actors Vineet Kumar Singh and Manav Vij have also done justice to their characters in Jahnavi's journey to become an Air Force Officer.

Pankaj Tripathi, impresses as usual, even in a comparatively small role of around 20 minutes. 

Gunjan Sexena has managed to show the special relationship of a father and daughter on screen. Actor Pankaj Tripathi made Gunjan's father and an army officer's role memorable with his effortless acting. Like there is a scene where Gunjan has to lose weight to pass the Air Force exam and Pankaj i.e. Gunjan's father makes actress Rekha his inspiration. When Gunjan comes home frustrated, instead of giving a lecture, he takes it to the kitchen and tells the price of the flour of life.

If the story is told in few words, it is the daughter of an army family of Lucknow who wants to become a pilot since childhood. Only his father supports him in this dream. If the pilot is not able to become that, then she applies in the air force. There is a lot of hindrance in the selection, but Gunjan reaches all over for academy training. Here too, after facing the neglect of her seniors and male colleagues, she reaches the battlefield. During the Kargil War, everyone's attitude towards Gunjan changes by bringing the trapped soldiers with understanding and courage.

Overall Gunjan Saxena is a orderly film where the struggle of women and India's air force officer's combat in Kargil war is presented in amusing manner.

Actors Vineet Kumar Singh and Manav Vij have also done justice to their characters in Jahnavi's journey to become an Air Force Officer.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)-Film Rating

The film gets  rating out of 10 by IMDB users. Bollywood Product rates the film  07 out of 10 based on its trailer available on YouTube.