Directed by : My Rating : ⭐⭐⭐ Language : Hindi
Cast : Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Tapeese Pannu, Nitya Menen, Kriti Kulhari, Sharman Joshi, H. G. Dattatreya, Vikram Gokhale
Plot : Set in 2010, the movie begins with the failure of the GSLV ‘FatBoy’, when Tara, a project director, played by Vidya Balan, overlooks a minor issue. But Rakesh, the Mission Director, played by Akshay Kumar, who believes there's no science without experimentation, takes the blame.
Rakesh receives snide remarks from Rupert Desai, a man coming from NASA to work for Chandrayaan 2 in ISRO and is challenged to take up the mars mission. Tara offers to help Rakesh and uses the concepts of home science to use the PSLV to launch a satellite to Mars. But, Rupert makes things harder for them and assigns the most inexperienced scientists to them.
Yet, thanks to Tara they find a way to spark their interests and use components on a very small budget. They name it MOM, when Varsha gets pregnant during the program. They also borrow material from Chandrayaan 2, which is on standby. To give a more catchy name to the mission, the director of ISRO names the mission “Mangalyaan”.
When everything is good to go, to their dismay, disaster strikes. Continuous storms keep raining down and their window to mars is closing but at the last moment the sun breaks through and they are able to launch the rocket. The satellite reaches mars, covering up for the days they lost. There is a tense moment when the satellite is in eclipse mode and they are tensed whether it reached Mars, When it sends back some pictures to earth giving a sweet victory to ISRO . Mission Mangal is the great and patriotic story of how India made it to Mars on the first try and in an extremely short budget.
Review :
I like this movie a lot, as it shows how the Indians refused to give up, no matter the problems they faced. It's incredible how Tara found science in everything, Home Science, proving her a true scientist. But the movie could have worked more on fact than fiction. The CGI animation is good, but I wish they had also used dome pictures and videos of the original spacecraft. It could have also focused less on the problems in Tara’s life. It gives a great sense of Pride for india.
It also shows that women have great power and potential as the women on the team kept their heads high and kept innovating to find the best, cost-friendly, space managing and lightweight materials for the satellite, while juggling their regular life. This movie has proven that India has endless possibilities and that, for India, the sky is not the limit.
This is a great movie which will puff sparks of patriotism into the heart of the beholder.
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