'Airlift', which featured Akshay Kumar in the role of Ranjit Katyal, was based on the evacuation of Indians from Kuwait during invasion by Iraq in 1990.
Ayushmann Khurrana's latest release 'Article 15' is inspired by the 2014 Badaun gang-rape and murder. Although Ayushmann plays a fictitious cop, his character and certain fictional drama is used intelligently in the film to highlight the sordid societal reality of heartland India.
2007 flick 'Black Friday', written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, is the true story based on the 1993 Bombay bombings.
Akshay Kumar-starrer 'Kesari' fell back on history to discover an intriguing slice of commoners' valour in the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi.
To understand the enormity of the story told in 'Madras Cafe', the audience ought to be familiar with the violent history of the Sri Lankan civil war. 'Madras Cafe' is a dark deep and satisfying film about the politics of separatism. If it is against anything, it is the culture of violence that nations often feed into neighbouring countries for their own gains. This film opens up the hitherto unexplored genre of political drama in Bollywood.
'Neerja', a biopic, encapsulates the life of Neerja Bhanot, head purser, Pan Am flight 73, which was hijacked in Karachi in September 1986 where she laid down her life heroically, trying to save the passengers.
On April 29, 1999 a shot was fired from a .22 bore pistol whose loud reverberations lasted over a decade. The shot that killed a vivacious, aspiring model Jessica Lall was fired in the presence of more than 100 'socialites' present at a party in New Delhi. Yet, accused Manu Sharma walked free in 2006 prompting a newspaper headline that read ‘No One Killed Jessica’. The film that released in 2011, faithfully follows the case to emerge a winner.
Punning on the surname and revealing the ironies in the investigation of the case and in India's judicial system, Meghna Gulzar's 'Talvar', based on the Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj double-murder that rocked the nation in 2008, is far from poetry.
One of the best films in recent times on the wages of terrorism, 'The Attacks Of 26/11' is a stunning wake-up call for those of us who think Mumbai's night of terror cannot happen again.
'Uri: The Surgical Strike' is based on dramatised account of India's retaliation to the 2016 Uri attack.the This is one of those significant war film's where Major Vihaan Singh Shergill, played by the self-effacing Vicky Kaushal, gathers his troop together somewhere in Kashmir before striking surgically in the country next door. 'Uri' brings the blood of cross-border tension to a boil but avoids a spillover. There is a rush of patriotic pride in the product -- and why should there not be? -- but it is reined-in, curbed and never allowed to spill over in a gush of irrepressible jingoism.
