Andhadhun Director Sriram Raghavan To Make His OTT Debut Based On True Shocking Event
Director Sriram Raghavan, who is known for making films with hard-hitting themes such as Andhadhun, Badlapur, and others, is all set to make his digital debut with a series based on one of India's unforgettable and horrifying incidents that took place in 1999 in the forms of Hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814. (according to LetsOTT) ## The series will narrate the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight AC-814 by Pakistan based terrorist group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in 1999. The incident forced India to release three Islamist terrorists in return for the safety of 176 passengers and crew of the flight before five masked terrorists fatally stabbed one and wounded several others. ## Raghavan and his team are said to have started researching the project and are talking to crew members and passengers who were on the flight for their source material. Raghavan is apparently planning to make it as a taut thriller and mount it next year. The OTT platform for the project is not decided yet. ## Talking about the incident, Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on December 24, 1999, when it was en route from Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi. The airbus was hijacked by five masked gunmen shortly after it entered the Indian airspace. The hijackers ordered the aircraft to be flown to a series of locations such as Amritsar, Lahore, and Dubai before they forced the aircraft to land in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which at the time was controlled by the Taliban. ## The Kandahar hijacking has been the subject of a few films in past. Mohanlal and Amitabh Bachchan starrer 2010 Malayalam film Kandahar, Nagarjuna's Gaganam, and Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan and Bipasha Basu starrer Zameen (2003) were loosely based on this incident. ## Meanwhile, Sriram Raghavan was supposed to shoot for Ekkis with Varun Dhawan last year. However, the film could not go on floors because of the covid-19 pandemic. The film which is based on the life of Second Lieutenant Arun Kheterpal is now said to go on floors in September. ## Stay tuned...
