Neerja
(2016)
★ 7.3 IMDb · 245 votes
Year: 2016
Runtime: 122 мин
Country: India
Director: Ram Madhvani
Cast: Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Шабана Азми, Shekhar Ravjiani, Yogendra Tiku, जिम सर्भ, Abrar Zahoor, Ali Baldiwala, Kavi Shastri, Waqar Khan
Plot
Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
22 years old Neerja works as a flight attendant. But her mother wants her to quit the job and return to modeling.On 5th September 1986 she boards Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai to Newyork with halts at Karachi and Franfrut which seems to be a normal flight as usual.During the halt in Karachi Libyan-sponsored Palestinian terrorist group hijacks the flight. Neerja alerts the cockpit and the American pilots manage to escape.Khalil whose leading the hijack asks Neerja and others to collect American passports so that they can take American as hostages.But Neerja hides those passport and Khalil takes UK citizens as hostages.After seventeen hours ordeal the plane looses power and the terrorist start firing randomly killing passenger.But Neerja manages to open the emergency door and rescue passengers but scarifies her own life.