Mission Raniganj (2023)

Original title

मिशन रानीगंज: द ग्रेट भारत रेस्क्यू

Directed by

Tinu Suresh Desai

Genre

biographical film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

15

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mining engineer leads a desperate effort to save 65 men trapped deep underground after a coal mine collapses in West Bengal in 1989. The story follows his persistence and bravery against difficult odds to bring the miners back to safety.

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What happens

Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language disaster thriller film directed by Tinu Suresh Desai and produced by Pooja Entertainment. Based on the Raniganj Coalfields collapse of 1989 in West Bengal, the film stars Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra. Mission Raniganj is based on Jaswant Singh Gill, a brave and diligent mining engineer from IIT Dhanbad who rescued 65 trapped miners at the Raniganj Coalfields in 1989. Principal photography took place from July 2022 to August 2023 in the United Kingdom, Raniganj, Jharkhand and Mumbai. The film was theatrically released on 6 October 2023. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office flop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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