The screenplay starts with the Kargil war situation where we see glimpses of the real -life heroine- Gunjan Saxena serving her country.
In terms of performances I loved the supporting cast and child artist. Riva Arora made me believe in her dream of one day becoming a pilot. Pankaj Tripathi was well suited for the role as every girl would want a supportive father like him. Angad Bedi plays her onscreen brother who loves her sister but has stereotypical thinking about women because of the society they live in. He thinks it is the responsibility of the men to fly planes and protect the country. Even in the second half he says “I will not always come to protect you” but we see how his thinking changes and becomes so proud of his sister as she succeeds in her evacuation mission.
Ayesha Raza does a good job as Kirti Saxena wants her daughter to go to the linear route and study further and get married and not experiment with her career choices as she fears to answer the society and gives in to the pressures of the same.
Jahnvi Kapoor being a product of nepotism cannot bring any sense of connect to the female war hero. Neither the body language nor the facial expression resonated with an air force officer. The screenplay did not help uplift her performance either.
The film does portray the working of the Airforce in the wrong light because of which it falls in all sorts of legal battles. The story of the movie tries to pay a tribute to this great personality but fails to impress a large part of the audience that makes up the Airforce officers and Staff.
As an audience I was really excited for the movie and was ready to be inspired by the representation of Gunjan Saxena as a normal person we don’t get a chance to interact with an Airforce officer
