PlotДў2-year-old Neerja Bhanot arrives late for a house party one evening. At the 62nd Filmfare Awards, Neerja won six awards, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actress (Critics) for Kapoor, and Best Supporting Actress for Azmi. It won two awards at the 64th National Film Awards including Best Feature Film in Hindi and Special Mention for Kapoor. The film received a number of accolades at Bollywood award organisations, with particular praise for Kapoor's performance and Madhvani's direction. The film grossed в‚№135.52 crore (US$18В million) at the box office.

Neerja was released on 19 February 2016 to critical acclaim, and became one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films featuring a female protagonist. The film features music by Vishal Khurana, with lyrics written by Prasoon Joshi. Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla worked on the script, with principal photography taking place in Mumbai. Дevelopment began in September 2014, when Kasbekar signed Madhvani and Kapoor for a film to be made by Bling Unplugged and Fox Star Studios. Bhanot died trying to help save the passengers and crew, of whom 359 of the 379 on board survived.

The film is shown from the point of view of head purser of the flight, Neerja Bhanot, who thwarted the hijack attempt by alerting the pilots, thus grounding the plane. The plot is based on a real-life event: the attempted hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan by Libyan-backed Abu Nidal Organization on 5 September 1986. The film features Sonam Kapoor as the title character with Shekhar Ravjiani, Shabana Azmi, Yogendra Tiku, Kavi Shastri and Jim Sarbh in supporting roles. It was produced by Atul Kasbekar's company, Bling Unplugged, alongside Fox Star Studios. HereвЂ™s hoping thereвЂ™s many more like them next year and that 2017 makes a stronger showing, overall, than 2016 did.Neerja is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical thriller film directed by Ram Madhvani and written by Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh. All of them put me through an emotional wringer, and none of them are conventional narratives capped by convenient happy endings. They are set in specific, detailed milieus that feel fresh and atypical. (IвЂ™ve watched Piku, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Bajirao Mastani, and Dil Dhadakne Do multiple times by now, and made full-throated recommendations of Badlapur and Margarita With A Straw to several people.)Д«ut just like last year, the films IвЂ™ve picked feature strong, unapologetic female protagonists. But I feel a little deflated that there havenвЂ™t been more Bollywood films I was crazy about in 2016 and that IвЂ™m not as passionate about some of this yearвЂ™s favorites as I was about last yearвЂ™s. I have love (or at least respect) for all of my top five this year, obviously. I wondered if Tanu Weds Manu Returns merited re-evaluation. I yelled at myself for not having watched Masaan, Talvar, and NH10 in time for my deadline. I debated, more than once, my decision to leave Tamasha and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! off. In 2015, I was daunted by the the sheer quantity of excellent Bollywood movies. I struggled with my list of five favorite Hindi films this year just as I did last year.

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