Popular actor and comedy artist Rajiv Thakur who made his debut with the film Lakh Pardesi Hoiye, and has starred in films like Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar, Tutak Tutak Tutiya etc will be seen in Anubhav Sinha’s web series for Netflix. Titled Flight in Fear, the series is about the Kandahar plane hijacking incident. The series has Vijay Varma, Naseeruddin Shah, Patralekha, Pankaj Kapur playing key roles.
As for Rajiv, he is a noted personality in the stand-up comedy circuit and has appeared in The Kapil Sharma Show.
Coming to the hijack incident, this was one of the most tragic terrorist incidents where 176 passengers were held hostage by five Pakistani militants. For those unaware, Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on December 24, 1999, when it was en route from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi. The airbus was hijacked by five masked gunmen shortly after it entered Indian airspace. The terrorists forced the flight to touch down at several locations such as Amritsar, Lahore, and Dubai before finally landing it in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which was then ruled by the radical regime of the Taliban. The hijackers released 27 of 176 passengers in Dubai but fatally stabbed one and wounded several others. The crisis lasted for seven days and ended on December 31 after India agreed to release three dreaded gangsters—Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and Masood Azhar—who later planned and executed terrorist actions such as the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl and the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
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We now hear of Rajiv Thakur playing a crucial role in the series.
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