Mission Mangal
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| Directed by | Jagan Shakti |
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| Story by | Jagan Shakti |
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| Cinematography | Ravi Varman |
| Edited by | Chandan Arora |
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| Distributed by | Fox Star Studios |
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Running time | 127 minutes[2] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹32 crore[3][4] |
| Box office | est. ₹290.02 crore[5][6] |
Mission Mangal (transl. Mission Mars) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Jagan Shakti and jointly produced by Cape of Good Films, Hope Productions, Fox Star Studios, Aruna Bhatia, and Anil Naidu. The film stars an ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari, Sharman Joshi, H. G. Dattatreya, Vikram Gokhale, and Sonakshi Sinha. The film is loosely based on the life of scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation who contributed to the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary expedition.
Mission Mangal was announced in November 2018. Shakti, who worked as associate director on Pad Man (2018), pitched the script to Kumar. Principal photography for the film began in November 2018. The film's soundtrack was composed by Amit Trivedi and Tanishk Bagchi with lyrics written by Baghchi along with Amitabh Bhattacharya, and released under the banner Zee Music Company. Mission Mangal was theatrically released in India on 15 August 2019, India's Independence Day. It received positive reviews from critics and earned ₹290.02 crore worldwide, becoming a commercial success.
Plot
After the failed launch of GSLV-F06 on 25 December 2010, due to a small mistake by Project Director Tara Shinde, Rakesh Dhawan, a fellow scientist working with her, takes the blame for her. As a result, he is relocated to work on Mangalyaan as punishment. The new GSLV missions are given to Rupert Desai, a NASA scientist of Indian origin. The MoM (Mars Orbiter Mission) is thought of as an impossible mission by his coworkers due its aim of reaching Mars with its tight budget.
Rakesh learns that MoM cannot take off on the PSLV since the available technology has a payload of only 1500 kg and not enough fuel to fire the rocket to be carried to a distance of almost 5.5*10^7 kilometres. GSLV, if it had succeeded, could have taken the satellite to Mars as it had a payload of 2.3*10^3 kg. However, recent significant failures of GSLV have jeopardised the planned future missions.
Back at home, Tara is badly caught in between balancing her career and her family. One day at home, while frying 'Puris', Tara's maid informs of insufficient gas to cook all the 'Puris', to which Tara tells her to heat the oil and turn off the gas, and turn it back on if oil cools down, which sparks her an idea to launch the MoM using PSLV. They would use bursts of gas to push the MoM satellite further into Earth's outside orbit, and then slingshot it using Earth's gravitational sphere, successfully saving fuel. She approaches Rakesh with the idea, who is convinced. The duo tries to get the other team members on board, but instead are mocked, though they later are convinced too along with Director of ISRO. When Tara and Rakesh ask Rupert to lend them expert members of his team, Rupert instead gives them junior scientists and engineers, who have little to no experience in mission launches.
Eka Gandhi, who is the propulsion control expert, is introduced as a youngster that hates most Indian things and looks for the first chance to get away to NASA. On the other hand, there's the spacecraft autonomy designer Neha Siddiqui, who is struggling with rejection as a result of her intercommunal background. Also, there's the navigation expert Krittika Agarwal, who's a devoted wife that tends to her ex-serviceman husband Rishi Agarwal, who was severely wounded in action. Varsha Pillai, the satellite designer and payload expert, battles with her mother-in-law's taunts at home for not being able to bear a child. Parmeshwar Joshi, payload expert, often relies on Indian priest expertise, and develops a romantic interest in Eka. Lastly, there is Ananth Iyenger, the team's structural engineer.
However, after the announcement of India's second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, the mission's budget is cut by 50%. In between the tight schedule and minuscule budget, Tara and Rakesh continue to work on their MoM project by making several compromises. Tara and Rakesh realise that the junior scientists working on the project have low morale and motivation to make this mission happen, leading to the team slowing down. Tara soon realises that in order to meet their budget and schedule, she must make the team members change their attitudes, and motivate them to make their dream jobs into a reality. She is successful with this, and the team puts all their hardwork and energy into solving the issues with the mission, and making it happen.
The MoM satellite is finally launched on PSLV on 5 November 2013(after an 8-day delay due to weather), and is named Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Mars-Craft) and is successfully inserted into Earth's orbit. Rakesh and his team celebrates the successful launch. However, while doing the sixth orbit-raising manoeuvre, the jets fail to launch, pushing the mission 6 days behind. Rupert mocks the team, while Tara continues to keep hope that something will happen. Couple months later, on the way to Mars, the satellite is hit by a solar radiation wave, heavily damaging the communication systems of the satellite. When the team manages to regain communications, they realise that the solar radiation had increased the speed of the satellite and pushed it further, making up the 6 day gap they had incurred while doing the orbital manoeuvres with Earth. After spending 298-day transit to Mars, MoM satellite is inserted into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014, making the country 4th in the world to do so and the first country to do it in the first attempt.
Cast
- Akshay Kumar as Rakesh Dhawan
- Vidya Balan as Tara Shinde
- Vikram Gokhale as Director of ISRO
- Sonakshi Sinha as Eka Gandhi
- Taapsee Pannu as Kritika Aggarwal
- Nithya Menen as Varsha Pillai
- Kirti Kulhari as Neha Siddiqui
- Sharman Joshi as Parmeshwar Joshi
- H. G. Dattatreya as Ananth Iyengar
- Sanjay Kapoor[7] as Sunil Shinde
- Dalip Tahil as Rupert Desai
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Rishi Aggarwal
- Purab Kohli as Vivek Pillai
- Mohan Kapoor as Swami
- Arjan Kapoor as Reporter
- Rohan Joshi as Dilip Shinde
- Kashmira Pardeshi as Anya Shinde
- Manish Borundia as an ISRO employee
Production
On 5 November 2018, to coincide with 5 November 2013, the day the Mars Orbiter Mission was launched, Mission Mangal was announced. Principal photography for the film began later in mid-November.[8][9] In early February, Pannu finished her schedule of shooting.[10] Shakthi initially had Mohanlal and Sridevi in mind for the roles played by Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan. Shakthi pitched the idea to Kumar while working as an associate director to R. Balki in Kumar's Pad Man.[11]
In November 2018, a copyright infringement lawsuit was filed against the makers of the film by the filmmaker Radha Bharadwaj.[12]
Soundtrack
| Mission Mangal | |||||
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| Released | 15 August 2019[13] | ||||
| Recorded | 2018-2019 | ||||
| Studio | A T Studios | ||||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | ||||
| Length | 10:32 | ||||
| Language | Hindi | ||||
| Label | Zee Music Company | ||||
| Producer | Amit Trivedi | ||||
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The music of the film is composed by Amit Trivedi and Tanishk Bagchi while lyrics are by Amitabh Bhattacharya and Tanishk Bagchi.
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Dil Mein Mars Hai" | Benny Dayal, Vibha Saraf | 3:05 |
| 2. | "Shaabaashiyaan" | Shilpa Rao, Anand Bhaskar, Abhijeet Srivastava | 4:40 |
| 3. | "Tota Udd" (Music and Lyrics by Tanishk Bagchi) | Raja Hasan, Romi | 2:47 |
| Total length: | 10:32 | ||
Marketing and release
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On 4 July 2019, Kumar unveiled the first look poster of the film.[14] The official teaser of the film was released on 9 July 2019 by Fox Star Studios.[15] The first official trailer of the film was released on 18 July 2019 by Fox Star Studios.[16] The second official trailer of the film was released on 8 August 2019 by Fox Star Studios.[17]
The film was released in India on 15 August 2019, along with Batla House, on the occasion of India's Independence Day.[18]
Reception
Critical response
Mission Mangal received generally positive reviews from critics.[19]
Box office
On its first day of release, Mission Mangal earned ₹29.16 crore nett in India to become the third highest-opening for a Bollywood film in 2019, and Kumar's highest opening ever.[20] It recorded collections of ₹16.75-17 crore on the second day, outperforming in the regions of Mumbai, Mysore and West Bengal.[4][21] On its third day of release, a Saturday, the film collected ₹23.5 crore nett.[22] It earned ₹27.5 crore nett on Sunday, marking the highest earning for a Bollywood film in 2019 on a single day.[23] The following day, it showed a drop of 50 percent from Friday's earnings to collect ₹8.5-8.75 crore nett.[24]
As of 12 October 2019[update], with a gross of ₹238.80 crore in India and ₹51.22 crore overseas, the film has earned ₹290.02 crore worldwide.[5][6]
References
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- ^ "MISSION MANGAL (2019)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ Kapoor, Chetna (10 August 2019). "'Mission Mangal' team with Arnab Goswami: Film's magic number budget revealed, Akshay Kumar says Rajinikanth's 2.0 cost more than Mangalyaan". Republic TV. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ a b Singh, Harminder (16 August 2019). "Mission Mangal Is A Huge Winner". Box Office India. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
The film was a quickie made in no time and shot for around 30 days and at a production cost of just 32 crore (without Akshay Kumar and P&A)...
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- ^ a b "Bollywood Top Grossers Worldwide Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ "Sanjay Kapoor to play Vidya Balan's husband in 'Mission Mangal'". The Times of India. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "'Mission Mangal': Akshay Kumar reveals the star cast of his film'". The Times of India. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan kick off Mission Mangal". Mumbai Mirror. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ "Tapsee Pannu wraps up shoot for Akshay Kumar's Mission Mangal, reveals her look with new pic. See it here". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ Raman, Sruthi Ganapathy (24 July 2019). "'Mission Mangal' film about 'ordinary people setting out to do extraordinary things', says director". Scroll.in. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Basu, Mohar (22 November 2018). "US-Based Filmmaker Files Lawsuit To Halt Vidya Balan Starrer Mission Mangal's Production". Mid Day. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Jio Saavn.
- ^ "'Mission Mangal': Akshay Kumar unveils the first poster of the film". The Times of India. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal - Akshay - Vidya - Sonakshi - Taapsee - Sharman - Dir: Jagan Shakti - 15th August". YouTube. Fox Star Studios. 9 July 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal - Akshay - Vidya - Sonakshi - Taapsee - Sharman - Dir: Jagan Shakti - 15th August". YouTube. Fox Star Studios. 18 July 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal - New Official Trailer - Akshay, Vidya, Sonakshi, Taapsee, Dir: Jagan Shakti". YouTube. Fox Star Studios. 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal". The Times of India. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal movie review and rating: Critics verdict on Akshay Kumar starrer out". IB Times. 14 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ Singh, Harminder (16 August 2019). "Mission Mangal Has Excellent First Day". Box Office India. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ Singh, Harminder (17 August 2019). "Mission Mangal Is Strong On Day Two". Box Office India. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ Singh, Harminder (18 August 2019). "Excellent Growth For Mission Mangal On Saturday". Box Office India. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Mission Mangal Has Highest Sunday Of 2019 - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com.
- ^ "Mission Mangal Good Monday - Batla House Steady - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com.