RUNWAY 34: Movie Review

Summary: 

Ajay Devgan’s Runway 34, which was released on 29th of April this year (2022), had done a business of INR 25 crore till now. Unfortunately, the movie lost the competition to Prashanth Neel’s KGF in the box office but the story is one of the few rare ones in the Bollywood industry.

The movie Runway 34 was roughly based on the narrow escape of a Jet Airways flight from Doha to Kochi, Which occurred in 2015 due to bad weather and unclear visibility. It also mentioned the Air India express flight incident of 2010, which was a pilot error.

Movie Story:

The movie shows Captain Vikrant (Ajay Devgan), who is shown as borderline arrogant with a gift of Photographic memory and first officer Tanya Alburqurquee (RakulPreet) meeting together to fly a  flight together from Dubai to Cochin.

But they find themselves in the middle of bad weather and no visibility. After several landing trials, they decide to relocate to Trivandrum for safe landing. Unaware that the weather is far worse.

Due to low fuel availability the captain takes a May-day call and lands the flight with no visibility. After which the pilot gets a lot of praise for landing the flight safely  in a harsh situation.

But both the pilots find themselves riled in an investigation by Narayan Vedant (Amitabh Bachchan) following a May-day call before landing an aircraft in testing conditions.

During investigation it is revealed that one of the passengers on the flight died on the way to hospital after the harsh landing, which makes the investigation situation worse for the pilots. 

Eventually the captain explains the reason for all his decisions that he made during the flight and proved that even though few of his decisions were questionable, he never put the life of his passengers at risk.

By the end the captain manages to save himself and his crew from any further investigation as well.

Review: 

The movie showed a very unrealistic lifestyle of pilots, which was unnecessary in my opinion but the character of Captain Vikrant played by Ajay Devgan was well suited for him.

Also, the character of Narayan Vedant played by Amitabh Bachchan was also mind blowing. I especially liked the strong Hindi dialogue delivery of a lot of words; we had no clue of like homesickness, lie-detecting test etc. 

The movie shows a talented pilot with borderline arrogance but also with a sense of responsibility and team leadership, safely lands a flight in the middle of bad weather with no visibility. 

Not only saves all the lives in his flight, but also keeps his promise of safe landing to his passengers and saves himself and his whole crew from the investigation.

Conclusion:

The movie was based on two real life incidents, which also showed how important the sense of responsibility, teamwork and trust is. It also gives us the hint of bureaucracy in the industry of airlines. 

Storytelling, in my opinion could have been better but it is still a new way of storytelling different from the common Bollywood style. In future, we would like to see more movies based on real events. 

Overall I will give the movie Runway 34- 3 stars out of 5. Please feel free to share your opinions in the comment section.

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