The Brave Heart Of India - Neerja Bhanot

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Neerja Bhanot (7 Sept1963 – 5 Sept1986) was working as a senior flight attendant with Pan Am airlines.

On 5 September 1986, Bhanot was the senior crew of Flight-73 which was going from Mumbai to New York. The flight was hijacked at Karachi airport. The hijackers wanted to attack the Israeli defense ministry, using the aircraft as a missile.

Soon after the aircraft was hijacked, Bhanot alerted the cockpit crew and, as the plane was on the tarmac, the three-member American cockpit crew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer fled from the aircraft. 
Within a short time after seizing control of the aircraft, hijackers realized that the pilots had escaped off the plane so was therefore forced to negotiate with the officials asking them to arrange the pilots.

The hijackers then ordered the flight attendants to collect the passports of all passengers. Neerja Bhanot realized that the passengers with American passports would be singled out by the hijackers so she hid the passports of the 41 Americans on board - some under a seat and the rest down a rubbish chute.

After 17 hours when the pilots were not arranged, the hijackers opened fire and set off explosives. Bhanot opened the emergency door and helped a number of passengers escape. She could have been the first to jump out when she opened the door but she decided not and was shot while shielding three children from a hail of bullets fired by the terrorists..

359 people were saved while 20 lost their lives.

Bhanot was recognised internationally as "The Heroine of The Hijack" and is the youngest recipient of the Ashok Chakra Award, India's most prestigious gallantry award for bravery during peace time.

 

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Great & Hats off to her

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Movie kuda teesthunnaru kada..I think Sonam Kapoor is essaying the role

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Movie kuda teesthunnaru kada..I think Sonam Kapoor is essaying the role

Good nenu Ade Andham anukunna ila Manchi panulu chesina valla movies tiyyaru Ani good to knw they r making a movie abt her

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Good nenu Ade Andham anukunna ila Manchi panulu chesina valla movies tiyyaru Ani good to knw they r making a movie abt her

 

But ee bollywood vallu..daniki masala add chesi..jaraganivi kuda add chesi story ni dilute chestharu in the name of creative additions to the story

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First Look: Sonam Kapoor as slain airhostess Neerja Bhanot in biopic

• IANS, New Delhi
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• Updated: May 05, 2015 16:15 IST

Sonam Kapoor in Neerja Bhanot biopic.

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Sonam Kapoor has shared the first look of her upcoming film Neerja, a biopic on Neerja Bhanot - the daredevil flight attendant of Pan Am.

Sonam plays the role of Bhanot, who lost her life trying to save the lives of passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986. 

Calling the film 'most special', the Khoobsurat actor shared a photograph of her first look on Twitter.
 

Sporting a uniform, red lips with shoulder-length straight hair neatly pinned up, Sonam is seen smiling in the photograph, which she captioned: "Hello everyone! This is me as Neerja! in our tribute to Neerja Bhanot. This is my most special film...thank you @foxstarhindi @blinglive."

For the film's director Ram Madhvani, making "Neerja is an emotional journey for all of us".

 

Produced by Fox Star Studios and Bling Unplugged, the story and screenplay of Neerja has been written by Saiwyn Quadras. 

Shabani Azmi plays a very crucial role in the film alongside Sonam.

"When we heard the script of Neerja, we immediately knew we wanted to make the film. It's the kind of content that Fox Star instinctively believes in and wants to back. Captained by Ram Madhvani, and with Sonam Kapoor and Shabana Azmi, Neerja, we believe, is a cracker of a film," Rucha Pathak, head of creative and development, Fox Star Studios, said in a statement.

Atul Kasbekar, producer, added that when "we asked people if they'd heard of Neerja Bhanot, most hadn't. For us then, at Bling Unplugged, a story of courage as exceptional as Neerja's simply deserved to be told. We just decided that we would do our bit to ensure that India would remember one of its great heroines."