Kimti anand biography for kids
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Mission Raniganj
2023 film by Tinu Suresh Desai
Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language disaster thriller film[4] directed by Tinu Suresh Desai and produced by Pooja Entertainment.[5][6] Based on the Raniganj Coalfieldscollapse of 1989 in West Bengal, the film stars Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra.[7][8]
Mission Raniganj is based on Jaswant Singh Gill, a brave and diligent mining engineer from IIT Dhanbad who rescued 65 trapped miners at the Raniganj Coalfields in 1989.[9]
Principal photography took place from July 2022 to August 2023 in the United Kingdom, Raniganj, Jharkhand and Mumbai. The film was theatrically released on 6 October 2023.[8] It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office flop.[10][11]
Plot
[edit]In 1989, miners are undergoing a shift change around midnight in Raniganj Coalfields. The mine is divided into three sections, and a blast is set off in one of the sections to open new coal veins. Upon the blast, it is noticed that the shaft is leaking water. An emergency order is sent out to evacuate, but the Behra (deaf) section is led by a deaf miner who doesn't hear the phone signal. Most of the 200+ miners ar
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I remembered Surjya, when I chanced upon a drawer full of memories – Black and White negatives shot on 120mm and 35mm film. There was this one wallet of negs from our Final Year Pushkar trip in 1981 with Prof. Chayya and Prof Shaheer. The negative also had three portraits, one of the best of the three was Surjya’s or Surjya Shankar Dasgupta, to give him his full name.
Surjya was one student amongst the 36 odd who joined SPA’s Architecture Department in 1977. I called him Surjya, while the rest of the class usually called him Das for short. He was our class CR by default, he had opted to be the Class Representative the first time, and after that the class en masse thought he was the best and should carry on for the rest of the years as well! To be honest, he could, at times try your patience, but that was because he was a dreamer, often thinking of something else while you thought he was listening to what was being said. He would foolishly drop his own work to help others finish theirs. We were all young, some of us “full of ourselves” and impatient, sometimes cutting Surjya’s conversations short, just to stop him from making an ass of himself – at least I thought that was what I was doing.
Surjya, Solly, Badri, Kasturi, Elsie and sometimes Madhu were our class minstrels,
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