Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena is an Indian Air Force officer and former helicopter pilot. She joined the IAF in 1994 and is a 1999 Kargil War veteran. Saxena was portrayed by Janhvi Kapoor in the 2020 Bollywood film GunjanSaxena: TheKargil Girl.
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Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena is an Indian Air Force officer and former helicopter pilot. She joined the IAF in 1994 and is a 1999 Kargil War veteran. Saxena was the only woman in the Indian Armed Forces who flew into war zones. She was portrayed by Janhvi Kapoor in the 2020 Bollywood film GunjanSaxena: TheKargil Girl. Her father and brother are played by Pankaj Tripathi and Angad Bedi respectively in other popular roles.
After the film released, there was a lot of confusion related to some facts about Saxena. In an article in NDTV she clarifies some of them: I was lucky and blessed to have so many firsts to my name. There are other achievements, but not much of significance to my story now. Neither I nor the filmmakers ever claimed I was a \”Shaurya Chakraee\” awardee.
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