Neerja

Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Shekhar Ravjiani(Jaideep), Yogendra Tiku(Father), Abrar Zahoor(Zayd), Jim Sarbh(Khalil), Ali Baldiwala(Mansoor) and Kavi Shastri(Naresh)
Director: Ram Madhvani
Genre: Biography, Thriller, Drama



Its slightly over hyped, nevertheless, a well deserved watch!




You may look forward to:

• Sonam Kapoor is picking the right kind of film for herself. This one will certainly catapult her career to greater heights. Although i cant say acting skills required for such movies are very high, but she looks to have paid a notable tribute to the bravery and courage of 'Neerja Bhanot' and successfully carried the entire film on her shoulders
• Shabana Azmi, Shekhar Ravjiani and Yogendra Tiku are in short supporting roles, but Shabana Azmi stands out
• Abrar Zahoor, Jim Sarbh and Ali Baldiwala, in fact did a stupendous job. They had a tougher job to relay varied and complex expressions, a concoction of fear, angst; failing to manage the situation and avenge themselves. A thin line between pity and vengeance is portrayed softly
• 'Neerja Bhanot' deserves a commendable applaud. Her presence of mind and tactful actions helped most of the passengers survive. She did not appear afraid most of the moments and gathered herself along every time, her best action being her first action to inform the pilots. She does deserve a salute! What she did is very unlikely of air hostesses! :D No offense!

What you can sleep over:

Kavi Shastri is the declared bad man of the film who is just a forced addition, he isn't really required in this part of the highlighted story. His part could be more justified if shown before the hostage situation





The dampeners you should be aware of:

The direction of the film slogged big time. Stories of such kinds do not have much to play around with the scripts or dialogues, but direction can make a huge difference. Unwanted scenes from Neerja's failed marriage was extremely misplaced and were distracting. Lone scenes of Neerja is made up, no one possibly could have known what she was thinking and feeling. Hence the tagline 'Fear gave her courage' is totally an assumption. The movie had a pace but yet it didn't hold up my attention throughout the film. I kept losing interest time and again





My Rating: 3/5

1- Poor  2-Average  3-Good  4-Very Good  5- Outstanding