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Jun 16, 2020 · Saxena grew up in Lucknow with dreams of becoming a pilot and soaring into the sky. The daughter of Lt Col (retd) A Saxena and Mrs Saxena, a young Gunjan graduated from Hansraj College in Delhi, cleared the entrance exam and joined the Indian Air Force in 1994. Being the first women to join the IAF came with its fair share of challenges.
Aug 13, 2020 · Gunjan Saxena (left) and actor Janhvi Kapoor who plays her in the biopic. (Netflix) In her book ‘Kargil: Untold Stories from the War’ , author Rachna Bisht Rawat describes how Gunjan flew over the battleground, covering the Kargil–Tololing–Batalik area, often flying over “mountainous terrain where Indian and Pakistani soldiers are firing at each other” to ferry wounded soldiers.
Aug 29, 2019 · Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl will release on March 13, 2020. The first look of the Gunjan Saxena biopic , which stars Janhvi Kapoor in the lead, was released by the makers on Thursday. The film titled Gunjan Saxena – The Kargil Girl will see Janhvi portraying a real-life person for the first time in her career.
Aug 19, 2020 · 19 August 2020. Netflix. Bollywood actress Janhvi Kapoor plays Flt Lt Gunjan Saxena in the film. A Bollywood film inspired by the life of India's first female pilot to fly in combat has been ...
Gunjan Saxena is best-known as one of the first women combat aviators who entered the war zone of Kargil in 1999 along with her fellow lieutenant Srividya Rajan. Though the initiation of women into the battalion started in 2016, Gunjan Saxena and Srividya Rajan broke the criterion becoming the first ever women IAF officers to fly in a combat zone during the Kargil war.
Gunjan Saxena was pursuing an undergraduate course at Hansraj College when she came across the golden opportunity of joining the very first batch of female IAF trainee pilots. A second generation defence officer, she was not out of sync with the challenges and opportunities that came with this life.
