Teaser for Mission Raniganj, Akshay Kumar’s next flick is out and one word we have for it is – ‘gripping’
The 56 second teaser, gets to the point without wasting much time. We are introduced to Raniganj coalfields with the date 13 November 1989. Disaster strikes and the mine collapses, trapping hundreds of miners within.
We are then introduced to Akshay Kumar, who is determined to save lives, be it of a single person alive in the mine.
What follows is a daring rescue mission to save hundreds who are trapped within the mine.
The biopic will bring to screen the story behind India’s biggest rescue mission led by Sardar Jaswant Singh Gill, who saved 65 miners in a coal mining accident in 1989.
The coal mining accident happened on 13 November 1989 in Raniganj, a township in West Bengal, in the Eastern part of India. On the day, around 220 miners were working inside the mine, when a wall cracked and water flooded in. Six lives were lost and those near the lift were rescued.
However, 65 miners were stuck deep inside, with water levels rising rapidly and oxygen levels, depleting. Being on an uneven platform, it was seemingly impossible to reach them.
This is when Sardar Jaswant Singh Gill, posted as the additional Chief Mining Engineer at the site, took it upon himself to save the miners. Being an alumnus of Indian School of Mines, he devised six-foot high iron capsule, which was sent down by drilling a fresh borehole. To expedite the operation, a 12-tonne crane was put into service for lowering and raising the capsule
He, using the capsule, entered the mine and went on to rescue to 65 miners. Reports suggests that it took six hours for the rescue mission, which happened on the intervening night of 15-16 November, to conclude.
Gill’s act of bravery is celebrated as Rescue Day by Coal India Limited every year on 16 November.
Mission Raniganj stars Akshay Kumar and Pareeniti Chopra and is directed by Tinu Suresh Desai.
The biopic will release on 6 October in cinemas worldwide.
Catch the teaser here:
