Flight Lieutenant Sreevidya Rajan says Gunjan Saxena was neither the first woman to be posted to the Udhampur base, nor the first woman to fly in Kargil.
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I just feel that atleast they made a movie and that is only good and maybe they wanted to focus on some things n tbh there is no movie without drama every movie is BASED ON TRUE STORY
It is not entirely true . This mobie was too BASED on true story n
With Saxena also now writing a blog (on NDTV) it all seems murky – who knows what is right, or…not. She is acknowledging that she was the first pilot as stated by IAF.
Her blog took on Shekhar Gupta’s take on the Shaurya Award – “Neither I nor the filmmakers ever claimed I was a “Shaurya Chakra” awardee. After Kargil, I received the “Shaurya Veer” award from a civilian organisation in Uttar Pradesh. A certain section of the internet news possibly turned “Veer” into “Chakra””. I haven’t watched the film and I am not sure if Gupta misread or misheard about the ‘Veer’ award.
In fact, the most interesting thing which kind of contradicts Rajan – she is also penning an autobiography – The Kargil Girl. With the byline: India’s First Woman Officer Who Went to War; check out Scroll for the excerpts/image.
I just feel that atleast they made a movie and that is only good and maybe they wanted to focus on some things n tbh there is no movie without drama every movie is BASED ON TRUE STORY
It is not entirely true . This mobie was too BASED on true story n
A very true and correct representation of facts as they stood at that time by Flt Lt Shree Vidya Rajan.
With Saxena also now writing a blog (on NDTV) it all seems murky – who knows what is right, or…not. She is acknowledging that she was the first pilot as stated by IAF.
Her blog took on Shekhar Gupta’s take on the Shaurya Award – “Neither I nor the filmmakers ever claimed I was a “Shaurya Chakra” awardee. After Kargil, I received the “Shaurya Veer” award from a civilian organisation in Uttar Pradesh. A certain section of the internet news possibly turned “Veer” into “Chakra””. I haven’t watched the film and I am not sure if Gupta misread or misheard about the ‘Veer’ award.
In fact, the most interesting thing which kind of contradicts Rajan – she is also penning an autobiography – The Kargil Girl. With the byline: India’s First Woman Officer Who Went to War; check out Scroll for the excerpts/image.
The fault of Srividya Rajan is she is not from the Hindi heartland