| Mission Raniganj | |
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| Directed by | Tinu Suresh Desai |
| Screenplay by | Vipul K Rawal |
| Dialogues by | Deepak Kingrani |
| Story by | Deepak Kingrani Poonam Gill (Idea) |
| Produced by |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Aseem Mishra |
| Edited by | Aarif Sheikh |
| Music by | Songs: Satinder Sartaaj Prem-Hardeep Arko Vishal Mishra Gaurav Chatterji Background Score: Sandeep Shirodkar |
Production companies | Pooja Entertainment AK Productions |
| Distributed by | PVR Inox Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 134 minutes[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹55 crore[2] |
| Box office | est. ₹45.66 crore[3] |
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 Coalfields collapse 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] Despite positive reviews from critics, the film was a box office flop.[10][11]
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- ^ Chowdhary, Pooja (6 October 2023). "Mission Raniganj First Day Collection: 55 करोड़ की फिल्म ने पहले दिन की मुट्ठी भर कमाई, कैसे होगी बजट की बरपाई?" [Mission Raniganj First Day Collection: 55 crore film earned a handful on the first day, how will be the budget recovered?]. Zee News (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Mission Raniganj Box office". Bollywood Hungama. 6 October 2023. Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
- ^ "Mission Raniganj". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 6 October 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
When water breaks through and floods a coal mine, an engineer must battle bureaucracy and a ticking clock to save those trapped inside in this Hindi-language disaster thriller, containing tense and emotional scenes.
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- ^ "Akshay Kumar To Play Real-Life Hero Jaswant Singh Gill, Who Rescued 65 Coal Miners, In A Biopic". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar's first look from the sets of 'Capsule Gill' leaked; leaves fans mighty impressed". The Times of India. 8 July 2022. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Akshay Kumar starrer Mission Raniganj to release on October 6, 2023". Bollywood Hungama. 6 September 2023. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ "Jaswant Singh Gill: A Brave Engineer Who Saved 64 Trapped Coal Miners By Risking His Own Life". IndiaTimes. 12 July 2022. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar on the box office failure of Mission Raniganj: It has not earned as much as it should have earned but it is one of my best films". The Times of India. 11 October 2023. Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar admits Mission Raniganj 'hasn't done well' at the box office: 'I own up, but it is one of my best films'". Indian Express. 11 October 2023. Archived from the original on 11 October 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.