Neerja (2016) on Netflix
NR20162h 2mBiographyDramaThriller
Neerja Bhanot, a 22-year-old flight attendant, boards Pan Am Flight 73 out of Mumbai. In Karachi, hijackers disguised as security officers seize the plane with 379 people on board.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix4.4/5
- IMDb7.6/1025,364 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
Trailer
Plot summary
Neerja Bhanot is 22 and works as a flight attendant, the job her mother Rama wants her to give up in favor of the modeling career she had before. Neerja refuses. Her friend Jaideep drives her to the airport in Mumbai on the morning of 5 September 1986, and she boards Pan Am Flight 73, bound for New York City by way of Karachi and Frankfurt. On the first leg she remembers the arranged marriage that took her to Doha, where her husband Naresh abused her over her dowry, and how she left him and joined Pan Am. In Karachi, four men sent by the Abu Nidal organization pass themselves off as security officers escorting a Libyan diplomat and move to take the aircraft.
Cast
- Ali Baldiwalaas Mansoor
- Yogendra Tikkuas Harish Bhanot
- Vikrant Singtaas Fahad
- Parth Akerkaras Flight Passenger
- Madhu Anand Chandhockas Rahima Mohammed
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Neerja (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Rather than lease a retired Boeing 747 abroad, director Ram Madhvani and Rucha Pathak decided to re-create the aircraft for Neerja; the plane set took 48 days to build and closely resembled the real thing.
- Neerja was banned in Pakistan for reasons that remain uncertain; the CBFC argued it should not count as banned there because the film was never submitted to them.
SPOILER
Neerja dramatises the September 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi by the Libyan-backed Abu Nidal Organization; head purser Neerja Bhanot alerted the pilots and grounded the plane. Bhanot was killed helping passengers and crew, of whom 359 of the 379 on board survived.- Bollywood figures including Vidya Balan, Boman Irani, Anil Kapoor and Raju Hirani visited the Neerja set; director Ram Madhvani had Aamir Khan and others speak to the film's 220-strong cast to instil dedication.
