Your heart expands and contracts at the same time. Her photos that are shown in the end show a lovely young woman with an infectious smile on the verge of starting her life. You know the story, you know the end and right from the opening credits a sense of dread fills you.
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Neerja is a very difficult movie to watch. If the film can be described in a sentence then, it is by far Sonam Kapoor’s best performance with a victorious woman’s story put together by a great director and told with utmost realism. Verdict - Neerja is a heart felt biopic which will leave you speechless! Why did it take so long for Bollywood to pay tribute to Neerja Bhanot? But, not to nitpick, the film leaves a lump in the throat and a sense of pride that an Indian girl could stand up to armed militants. The Rajesh Khanna line when Neeja’s body arrives in a coffin seems to hokey to be true. Neerja’s last words to her mother in the film is a famous Rajesh Khanna dialogue about Pushpa and her tears! Even though I hate them a lot, you just can’t leave the hall with dry eyes! Aamir, you have more company in the crying club. NEERJA is a movie that will make you a better person. Most importantly as a movie watching experience, you'll be glued to the movie screen with tears and admiration welling up in your eyes. It is a film that will make you stand up for what's genuinely Right without bothering about nationality, religion, sex, cast or colour of the skin. On the whole, NEERJA is a must watch ode to the youngest recipient of the highest civilian honour Ashok Chakra for displaying extraordinary courage and human kindness. But then ending on a lighter, positive note, would like to share the few words said by Neerja’s real mother to Sonam when she went to meet the lady as the lead actress. In all, paying my respectable tribute to NEERJA BHANOT with a Big SALUTE, hope the real life story of this daring young martyr inspires the entire present generation going through a difficult phase of forced division in terms of patriotism. For a filmmaker to stir up such a high degree of emotion while making no obvious attempt to manipulate us is an amazing achievement. It is as if Neerja’s soul resides in the film and whispers at us from the screen in those final moments. It is as if Ram Madhvani was there on that flight with Saiwyn, Sonam and the rest of them that day in 1986. It is a good thing this team chose to buck the trend, because Neerja Bhanot’s is a story worth telling and this film tells it really well. Goodness forbid then, were we to find ourselves in a situation like this, will be remember this film and act accordingly? Even if a handful of us do and fewer stay as brave, we would have made Neerja's short life larger. Indeed, you feel like standing up to salute her parents who instilled the values that she lived and died by. And that is what is so enabling about the film's subtext. Not because she is a woman, but because she is human. But also about being wanted as a girl child, about her independent spirit and about her having to stand-up against labels and what was wrong. This is not just about the woman's grit because she is a woman. Maybe the Rajesh Khanna bit is a little over-the-top, here's hoping that Neerja Bhanot was really that big a fan.Īside from telling a story about the events of PAN AM 73, Neerja has a lovely layer of woman empowerment sewed into the fabric of the film. Other than that, sure, there is drama in the form of tight close-ups and use hand-held cameras. Remember we got breaks in the form of flashbacks. However, I would stop myself short while doing that, because it is about hijacked people who were stuck with terrorists in a plane for 16-17 hours. One could complain that the film could have been shorter making it crisper because after all it is almost two hours of being stuck in a plane. Shekhar Ravjiani – even before we watched the film, we knew that we have to see this man in bigger roles on screen, didn't we? Well, then that is how well the actors have done. A word here for the actors who play the terrorists, though I feel that even acknowledging the terrrorists' existence is giving them too much. Not just her, you empathize with Yogendra Tiku as her husband, Neerja's father every time he is speechless but is required to form words.Īnd of course, Sonam Kapoor has vowed with keeping it restrained and real. Her voice inflections through the film, not only in one particular scene, touch a chord. Every time Shabana Azmi is on screen, I sensed a flood of emotion that I haven't felt in a movie in ages. It has been a long time since I heard applause by audience after the film ended and it has been a long time since I had tears well up and roll away because of a performance.
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