Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl movie review
Gunjan Saxena, played by Janhvi Kapoor, is an admirer of sky from an early age, fighting for a window seat with her older brother ( Angad Bedi) during a flight, pulling away from the conventional route of good girls getting a degree-and-getting married, and being supported by father (Pankaj Tripathi), in her determination to become a pilot.
The story of the movie shows smashing the patriarchy isn’t easy for a woman. It will take you into a world where a woman is fighting for her place on earth and in the skies. She worries about telling her parents that her future lies not in some man’s kitchen, but in the skies. The moment when she breaks the news her brother adopts the ‘log kya kahenge’ attitude, and Gunjan’s mother even proposes visiting an astrologer for advice on how to change her.
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Happiness being admitted into the air force academy turns into fog, because it is here that she truly experiences sexism. She misses training because the base doesn’t have a place for her to change into overalls. She is forced to relieve herself in a men’s washroom because there isn’t one for women. Nearly all of her fellow cadets refuse to participate in sorties with her, for fear of being outclassed. And her superior subjects her to further indignity by ordering her to arm-wrestle another cadet, displaying the sort of narrow-minded male mentality that the film repeatedly calls out. She loses, of course, but has the spirit to confront him in a later scene. “Main yahan helicopter udaane aayi hoon ya helicopter uthaane?”
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Director Sharan Sharma has portrayed sufferings and hardships but she develops her skills patiently, until she is called upon to unleash her powers in battle. By writing Gunjan as someone whose first love isn’t serving their country, but flying, Sharma offers a new perspective on uber-patriotic war movies. This is a welcome change of pace, especially in India, where the benchmark for war films is determined by JP Dutta’s filmography .
