Ranveer Singh‘s 83′ director, Kabir Khan is gearing up for the release of this much-awaited biopic on Kapil Dev.
Now that 83′ is about to release, Kabir Khan is already ready to direct his next big-scale web series based on the Kandahar hijacking.
The series has been tentatively titled IC 814 and will premiere on the streaming giant Netflix.
A source tells Peepingmoon.com, “The Kandahar hijacking crisis brought India on its knees. It’s a blot on Indian history that exposed the country’s vulnerable underbelly and questioned the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government that failed to handle the crisis. Kabir Khan’s show is based on the IC-814 flight pilot Captain Devi Sharan’s book, Flight Into Fear: The Captain’s Story, and chronicles the detailed account of this hostage crisis that kept India awake for seven fateful nights. How the terrorists breached the security checks, hijacked the plane, and forced the Indian government to fulfill their demands, what negotiations happened with hijackers and how the Crisis management group in Delhi comprising top names goofed up a rescue operation— this Netflix series explores everything related to the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight IC-814 that forced India to release three Islamist terrorists to secure its 176 passengers and crew of the flight.”
This series is expected to be a massive thriller and will go on floors in mid-2022.
For the unversed, 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. The terrorists forced the flight to touch down at Amritsar, Lahore, and Dubai before finally landing it in Kandahar, Afghanistan which was then ruled by 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.