Movie Review: Mission Mangal, a Film Based on 'Mangalayan'

Guwahati, August 19, 2019:

Bollywood’s latest release ‘Mission Mangal' has penetrated among a large section of the audience, earning a total of Rs 97.56 crore till Sunday, breaking the record of Kabir Singh.

The film, directed by first-time director Jagan Shakti, has received a widespread response from people all over. Actors Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Tapsee Pannu, and others have also been seen in their best performances.

The film is based on ‘Mangalyaan’, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Mars mission launched in 2013. It highlights the key roles of the scientists towards strengthening the country’s development.

The film shows how the idea of Mission Mars crops up serendipitously from ‘puri-bhaji’.

'Mission Mangal' opens with a failed ISRO mission. Mission Director Tara (Vidya Balan) ignores the technical glitch which caused the failure. Rakesh Dhawan (Akshay Kumar), who is the Project Director of the mission, claims all the responsibility for the failure gets ‘demoted’ to a Mars program.

Rakesh, who played the role of handling adversity with a smile, faces a lot of criticism and hurdles while completing the mission. He is portrayed as a scientist who has dedicated his life to ISRO, with no time for love or family. While Tara plays the role of a promising scientist dedicated towards her work who juggles with her family issues at the same time.

Rakesh and Tara put together a team of junior scientists from ISRO who lacks experience and make efforts to complete the Mars mission into space within 24 months.

Eka (Sonakshi Sinha), Neha (Kirti Kulhari), Kritika (Taapsee Pannu), Varsha (Nithya Menen), Parmeshwar (Sharman Joshi) and Ananth (HG Dattatreya) make up the rest of the core team. The whole bunch wrack their brains and come up with innovative, low-cost solutions for the Mars mission that fits into a rough budget of Rs. 454 crores.

'Mission Mangal' purely describes how the team member tries to simplify the complex science that goes into a space mission and finally gains success in reaching to the Mars orbit proving everybody wrong.

However, the film witnesses a wave of typical emotional Bollywood drama with the ‘tadka’ of ‘patriotism’ which seems a bit gimmicky.

Overall, the film is good to watch as it highlights how India succeeded in the Mars program in its very first attempt with a bunch of young scientists who initially did not want to be a part of it at all.

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