'Gunjan Saxena': Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi & director on why the movie felt personal

Gunjan Saxena: Kargil Girl released on Netflix recently and has been garnering praises from audiences. Gunjan Saxena reviews have also been mostly positive. Janhvi Kapoor is playing titular role of Gunjan Saxena, one of first female IAF pilots to fly in combat, in film and Pankaj Tripathi is playing role of her far. movie is helmed by debutant Sharan Sharma.

trio recently gave an online interview to Firstpost where y opened up about movie and talked about ir experiences of making Gunjan Saxena: Kargil Girl. trio also talked about why journey of making movie felt deeply personal to m. Here is what y h to say about Gunjan Saxena: Kargil Girl.

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Janhvi Kapoor says movie helped in regaining her self confidence

Talking about personal takeaways from movie, Janhvi Kapoor said that when she started shooting for this movie, she was really unsure about doing it for several reasons. She was bogged down and felt affected by or people’s opinions. During course of Gunjan Saxena, Janhvi Kapoor said that she regained a lot of her self confidence and self-belief. She also mentioned that gained a perspective of ultimately doing what is in one’s hand. All one needs to do is to just keep at it and keep working for it, Janhvi ded.

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Pankaj Tripathi on feeling relatable to character

Pankaj Tripathi was asked about his preparation of playing Gunjan Saxena’s far in movie. He said that he did t do any extensive preparation for role beyond rmal amount. Pankaj Tripathi mentioned that while preparing for role, he realised that coincidentally he too belongs to similar background as that of Gunjan Saxena’s far be it ecomically or socially. Talking about how it felt personal while doing role he furr ded that he comes from same part of country as that of Gunjan’s far and he thinks that he understood his concerns, dreams and his needs.

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Sharan Sharma shares his childhood dream

While talking about movie, Sharan Sharma revealed that few things hit him on a very personal level. He said that while he went to Gunjan Saxena as an outsider to try and understand her world, her experience felt very personal to him. He mentioned that Gunjan Saxena was just a kid who h a dream of wanting to fly and talking about himself he shared that he dreamt of becoming Sachin Tendulkar but that did t happen. Sharing this memory, Sharan Sharma said that he kws feeling of having a big dream.

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