It looks like OTT giant Netflix would clearly emerge to be the winner of this year’s content competition amongst the other web platforms with its stellar line up of films and web shows. With the announcement of IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, the OTT giant has added another feather to its cap.
On 24 December 1999, Indian Airlines flight IC 814, en route from Kathmandu to New Delhi, was hijacked and taken to Kandahar in Taliban-governed Afghanistan. The hijack lasted seven days; while passengers and crew suffered, some great officers back home struggled to answer the ‘who’ and ‘why’ – answers that were beyond the obvious and extremely complex. But the people had to be brought back home safely. The clock was ticking as the negotiations forged through; this is the story of those seven days which became the longest hijack in Indian history.
Well , not just the crux of the story is interesting, what is even more interesting is the stellar cast that has been roped in to play different characters in the web film. The cast includes stalwarts like Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma, Arvind Swamy, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Diya Mirza, Patralekha, Yashpal Sharma, Yashpal Singh and the list goes on.
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Director and co-creator of IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, Anubhav Sinha, said, “You are thirty thousand feet from the ground; the aircraft is in control by armed and dangerous people, and you don’t know what they want. You don’t know if they can be given what they want to spare your lives. You don’t know the lengths that people on the ground will go to, to negotiate a reasonable price for your lives. What went on inside the aircraft and outside, beyond geographical boundaries, while the aircraft landed in four different countries over one night? IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack is a verisimilar account of that infamous hijack from 1999 inside the aircraft, the War Room back home in Delhi and the Negotiation Station in Kandahar. This is a story that created unexpected heroes out of the most unprecedented crises. This is a story of those seven days of mayhem, skill and tact.”
We hope that the web film surely resonates with everybody.
