1986- Pan Am 73 Flight to US from India via Karachi . Senior Flight Purser Neerja Bhanot. Who

would not remember her? Anyone who was in the eighties era and old enough to understand

would never ever forget the plight of 400 passengers on board the flight when it got hijacked by

terrorists backed by Libya - in a duel against the Americans. 

Cut to 2016 and the least that the director Ram Madhwani could do was to direct a film to that

effect as a tribute to the great heroine Neerja Bhanot. Yes if you look back and relive those

moments through Sonam Kapoor playing Neerja the spunky air Purser of the ill fated flight then

you would not mind that tear falling down your cheek as you see the gal fight it with the

terrorists. 

Yes you would not mind applauding the gal when she hides the passports of the Americans on

board the flight or dumps them in the rubbish chute. With childish glee you would stand up and

clap for her when she warns the cabin crew to escape so that the flight would go nowhere. 

Today as the captain of a popular airline owes his life to Neerja Bhanot you would realise that

he is the two year old Neerja saves while falling prey to the bullets that finally take her life. 

Yes Neerja lives on even she died in this fatal incident back in 1986. She lives on as Sonam

Kapoor shares the story through enacting Neerja on screen. She lives through this film which

more than does the job of a biopic. It is a real life story which sends chill down your spine in an

era when there was no cell phone and technology was minimal but guts and mental strength

was highest in people like Neerja. She certainly deserves this tribute and the film surely is a

winner all the way. We give it four stars.