'Mission Raniganj' movie review: Mission, not so accomplished

Updated On: 07 October, 2023 07:04 AM IST | Mumbai | Hiren Kotwani

`Mission Raniganj` movie review:Despite Desai’s intent and passion to tell the story, it doesn’t seem to have adequately inspired writers Vipul K Rawal and Deepak Kingrani, nor does it show in his own execution

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Movie: Mission Raniganj
U/A: Drama, thriller
Dir: Tinu Suresh Desai
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra, Kumud Mishra
Rating: 2.5/5

The film begins with an introduction to coal mining in India under the British Raj and the similarities of the disasters with those in the UK mines before taking us to Raniganj, where the narrative is set. The movie narrates the story of the November 1989 rescue mission of 65 people who were trapped in the mines, led by mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill. He—an alumnus of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Dhanbad—was known as Capsule Gill because he came up with the novel idea of using a capsule to pull out the trapped miners, one by one, from the jaws of imminent death.

Gill (played by Akshay Kumar) is a no-nonsense man who goes about his work undeterred by what is happening around him—which is conveyed in his introductory sequence in the movie—as he calmly handles a threatening goon who barges into his office, questioning the sacking of a worker for reporting on duty, drunk.

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