Gunjan Saxena : The Kargil Girl Movie Review : A deeply moving tale of a feminist father and his feisty daughter
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Gunjan Saxena : The Kargil Girl is a 2020 Bollywood biographical film directer is Sharan Sharma and producer under Dharma Productions and Zee Studios. The film stars Janhvi Kapoor as Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena, the first Indian female air-force pilot in combat, alongside Pankaj Tripathi and Angad Bedi in supporting roles.
Film Shooting commenced in February 2019 and was wrapped up in October; it was extensively filmed across Lucknow.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was unable to release theatrically and was picked up for distribution by Netflix. It was released globally on 12 August 2020.
Critic's Rating : 4.0/5
Avg. Users' Rating : 3.7/5
In-depth Analysis
Our overall critic’s rating is not an average of the sub scores below.
Direction :4.0/5
Screenplay :4.0/5
Music :3.0/5
Visual appeal :3.5/5
Gunjan Saxena : The Kargil Girl Film Story :
The film chronicles the incredible real life story, struggles and gender based discrimination faced by former Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena (played by Janhvi Kapoor). Known as the ‘Kargil Girl’, Gunjan was honoured with the Shaurya Vir award for displaying exemplary courage during the Kargil war in 1999.
Gunjan Saxena : The Kargil Girl Movie Review :
Gender stereotypes are as old as the hills. While men are preordained to excel at something, women stepping into that territory continue to ruffle a few feathers. It's not uncommon for women to face blatant, casual or concealed sexism, no matter how accomplished. Female athletes are asked who their favourite male athlete is. Are women smart enough to analyse science fiction films or sports? If this is what we face today, Lucknow girl Gunjan Saxena shattered the glass ceiling in the 90s when she became an IAF pilot. She did it at a time when feminism wasn’t in vogue. It was only in 2016, that India saw its first ever women fighter pilots to be commissioned into the Indian Air Force. Women were not inducted in the fighter stream before. Flight Lieutenants Gunjan Saxena and Srividya Rajan paved the way for others to follow. In 1999, Gunjan, the former helicopter pilot at 24, became India's first woman combat aviator to fly Cheetah helicopters in the Kargil war zone. She was tasked with medical evacuations, supply drops, and mapping enemy position duties.
More than anything else, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl is a deeply moving tale of a feminist father and his feisty daughter. It wages war against patriarchal mind-set and discrimination, and identifies it as a bigger threat to progress than the one we perhaps tackled in 1999.
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Gunjan Saxena : The Kargil Girl Film Official Trailer :
Directer : Sharan Sharma
Producer : Karan Johar,Zee Studios,Hiroo Yash Johar,Apoorva Mehta
Writter : Nikhil Mehrotra,Sharan Sharma
Starring : Janhvi Kapoor,Pankaj Tripathi,Angad Bedi
Music : John Stewart Eduri,Amit Trivedi
Cinematography : Manush Nandan
Editer : Nitin Baid
Productioncompany : Dharma Productions,Zee Studios
Distributer : Netflix
Casting : Jogi Mallang
Production Design : Aditya Kanwar
Set Decoration : Jyoti Tuloyan
Visual Effects : Deepak Bhatia,Deeptanshu Ghosh,Ajay Goswami,Apurba Kalita,Vishal Kapoor
Stunts : Vikram Dahiya,Marc Wolff
Genres : Action,Biography,Drama
Release date : 12 August 2020
Running time : 112 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi
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Star Cast :
- Janhvi Kapoor ... Gunjan Saxena
- Pankaj Tripathi ... Colonel Anup Saxena
- Angad Bedi ... Anshuman Saxena
- Vicky Ahuja
- Riva Arora
- Ashish Bhatt ... Pilot Veeru
- Raunak Bhinder ... Subedar Biswa (as Raunakk Bhnder)
- Viineet Kumar ... Fight commander officer Dileep Singh (as Vineet Kumar Singh)
- Maria Srishti Marcelline... Air Hostess
- Gurnaaz Mittu
- Gulshan Pandey ... Sr Air Commanding Officer
- Rachana Parulkar
- Barbie Rajput ... Mannu
- Ayesha Raza ... Kirti Saxena
- Abhiroy Singh
- Yogendra Vikram Singh... Pilot Montu
- Kapil Tilhari ... SSB Officer Mishra
- Maneesh Verma ... SSB Mehra
- Manav Vij
Release :
The film was scheduled to release theatrically on 13 March 2020. However, that release postponed to 24 April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.It was then pulled from the schedule. Netflix later acquired distribution rights to the film and on 9 June 2020. Netflix released a teaser video introducing Gunjan Saxena and announcing that the film was premiered on 12 August 2020 on Netflix.
Marketing :
In a teaser poster announcing the film's 12 August 2020 release date on Netflix, Johar and Dharma Productions were not mentioned. Commentators believed this was due to nepotism allegations against Johar.
Songs / Music :
The film's music was composed Amit Trivedi while lyrics written is Kausar Munir.
"Bharat Ki Beti"- Arijit Singh
"Asmaan Di Pari"- Jyoti Nooran
"Dori Tutt Gaiyaan"- Rekha Bhardwaj
"Dhoom Dhadaka"- Sukhwinder Singh
"Rekha O Rekha"- Nakash Aziz
"Mann Ki Dori"- Armaan Malik
- Song - Bharat Ki Beti
- Singer - Arijit Singh
- Lyrics - Kausar Munir
- Music Composer - Amit Trivedi
- Music on - Zee Music Company
- Song - Dori Tutt Gaiyaan
- Singer - Rekha Bhardwaj
- Lyrics - Kausar Munir
- Music Composer - Amit Trivedi
- Music on - Zee Music Company
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