- Release date: 19 February 2016 (India)
- Director: Ram Madhvani
- Box office: est. ₹135.52 crore
- Awards: IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role,
Story
Challenging each standard set down in the standard Bollywood rule-book, Neerja cajoles an arresting two-hour show out of a genuine story of uncommon boldness.
For those mature enough to recollect how the capturing of the 1986 Pan Am flight 73 worked out, the subtleties are clearly all in the open area.
However, the need to bring the tale of Neerja Bhanot to the big screen can’t be addressed, particularly from the perspective of a more youthful crowd.
Twist
Right now of self-important, forceful patriotism, the characteristics of certified humanism this energetic film praises have the right to be brought to the fore and grasped.
Neerja not just places a lady at its inside, it likewise features the fearlessness of an airline steward who sees no difference amongst nationalities when her travelers face a grave risk.
She makes a special effort to attempt to spare everyone on board ? Indians, Americans, Pakistanis and Brits ? with no idea of the cost that she may need to pay.
Songs
Executive Ram Madhvani settles on the perfect passionate abundancy to bring to the screen the excellent story of a fearless style model and airline steward who, hours short of her 23rd birthday, set out her life to spare more than 350 travelers.
Neerja should be cheered for maintaining a strategic distance from the flashy and unwarranted fancy odds and ends of business Hindi film.
It dives quick into the life of a bubbly 1980s young lady who flies all through the nation professionally time effectively seeking after a flourishing displaying vocation.
Performances

The hero, whose individual life rotates around her gushing mother (Shabana Azmi), steady dad (Yogendra Tiku), and her milk-white Spitz, is a diehard Rajesh Khanna fan.
Her fixation on Kaka permits a crucial implication to ‘Zindagi badi honi chahiye lambi nahin, Babumoshai? to be woven into the screenplay (composed by Saiwyn Quadras).
The fleetingness of presence and the sheer silly of the savagery that grabs away encouraging lives is stood out from the huge hearted brightness of Neerja.
Cinematography
Its absolutely impossible of telling how harsh her life has been in the previous hardly any months as she hopes to make a crisp start.
She has a male companion, Jaideep (Shekhar Ravjiani in a unique appearance), who may have been her pass to another opportunity in life had destiny permitted her a more drawn out stretch on earth.
In the early minutes, the film decreases and forward between Neerja?s tasks in the approach the last trip of her life and scenes indicating a group of four of Palestinian desperadoes preparing for the critical strike on Pan Am flight 73.
In the time between the plane taking off from Sahar International and coming to cruising elevation, two succinct flashbacks uncover two urgent subtleties of Neerja?s life ? a masterminded marriage turned sour and her profound holding with her writer father.
Editing
However, what holds one critical piece of Neerja together is its delicate and sagacious mother-little girl relationship.
It is a film about a commandeering and a young lady who didn’t let weapon toting and explosives-loaded psychological oppressors dairy animals her down over the span of a hold-up that kept going 16 hours.
However, without the light that it tosses on Neerja?s childhood, it would be simply one more story of fortitude under coercion. It is considerably more.

Neerja is a picture of a family which, similar to some other Indian family, needed to think about the thought that a young lady kid is defenseless in our general public and, in this manner, needing more assurance than her two siblings.
The courageous woman of this film is a lady of substance who follows her heart and, excepting a brush with the clumsy spouse from whom she breaks free, gets what she needs.
Her mother stresses unendingly over her, yet can’t prevent her from removing wings and flying in the ways that she cherishes.
You are doing so well as a model, surrender the activity of an air leader, her mom recommends. Neerja?s reaction is sufficiently basic: ?I love my activity.?
She cherishes her calling such a lot of that in any event, when she is put to the sternest test, she adheres to its soul, assuming control over the stewardship of the lodge in her ability as head purser when furnished fear mongers jump into the plane at Karachi air terminal.
It is just Neerja?s first trip as head purser, yet she shows others how its done, cautioning the pilots at the last possible second and subsequently helping them get off the plane through an overhead cockpit bring forth.
Without pilots in the cockpit, the wings of the psychological militants are truly cut.
Conclusion
Hindi film has recently built up an affection for genuine good examples, yet not many of these movies accomplish any level of verisimilitude, fixated as they are with impairing the story with an eye on a more extensive crowd.
Madhvani does nothing of that sort and is none the more terrible for it. He has capable partners in DoP Mitesh Mirchandani (who catches momentous profundities and subtleties in shut spaces) and editorial manager Monisha Baldawa (who gives the film its pace).
The three principle entertainers in the cast ? Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Yogendra Tiku ? are large and in charge.
Sonam is obviously the lynchpin. In any event, when pushed well out of her customary range of familiarity, she is totally persuading and genuine as the bubbly adolescent with nerves of steel.
Shabana Azmi educates her job with unpretentious subtleties that add surprising layers to the portrayal.
Yogendra Tiku, an able entertainer who once in a while gets the play he merits in Hindi film, passes on the gushed feelings of a dad egging her little girl on to be in charge of her own life.
On the off chance that it will be only one Hindi film this week, ensure it is Neerja.
It is an amazing story that pulls tenderly and gently at the heartstrings.
It doesn’t go over the edge on assaulting the lachrymal organs. Be that as it may, when it does, it is strike against.