IC814: The Kandahar Hijack Series’ tremendous teaser released, know when and on which OTT platform it will be released

The teaser of the web series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ starring veterans like Vijay Verma, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapoor, Dia Mirza and Kumud Mishra has been released. Along with this, the release date of this series directed by Anubhav Sinha has also been announced. This teaser of about 1 minute has everything that refreshes the memories of the Kandahar hijack in the year 1999, fills the heart with fear and arouses excitement. The pain of the Kandahar hijack still remains like a sore in the chest of India. In the year 1999, Indian Airlines plane IC 814 was hijacked from Kathmandu. The terrorists first took it to Amritsar and then Lahore and then to Kandahar. In exchange for the 178 passengers on board the plane, India had released three dreaded terrorists – Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mustaq Ahmed Zargar from its custody. Anubhav Sinha’s series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack was announced by the OTT platform Netflix in February this year.

Watch the teaser of IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack here

The teaser begins with Vijay Verma. he/she is on board the plane as a pilot and wishes his/her passengers a safe journey before take-off. After this, we see the faces of the passengers laughing and playing inside the plane and then a shadow of fear is seen. When the terrorists take over the plane, the government system in India is shaken. In the teaser, we also get a glimpse of Pankaj Kapoor in the role of a minister, Nisaruddin Shah as the chief of the security agency and Kumud Mishra as a ministry officer.

When will the web series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ be released

The starcast of ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ is very strong. It also stars Divyendu Bhattacharya, Pooja Gor, Kanwaljit Singh, Manoj Pahwa, Patralekha, Yashpal Sharma and Aditya Srivastava in lead roles. The story of the series revolves around what happened in and outside the plane. Along with the teaser, the makers have also announced the release date of this series. This series will be streamed on the OTT platform Netflix from 29 August 2024.

The series will show the story of the inside of the plane and the war room of Delhi

Talking about his/her new series, Anubhav Sinha says, ‘You are 30,000 feet above the ground. The plane is under the grip of weapons and dangerous people are controlling it. You don’t know what they want. You don’t know if what they are going to demand can be given to them or not. You don’t know to what extent the people on the ground can go to negotiate a fair price for your life. What happened inside and outside the plane, beyond geographical boundaries, the plane landed in four different countries in one night. This series will show the truth of this infamous plane hijacking. It includes everything from inside the plane to the war room in Delhi and the negotiation station in Kandahar.’

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The Foreign Minister had gone to Kandahar for the release of the passengers

For information, let us tell you that the plane IC-814 was hijacked by five terrorists 40 minutes after taking off from Kathmandu on December 24, 1999. This plane was held hostage for seven days. It flew from Kathmandu to Amritsar and then to Lahore. It was refueled in Lahore and was sent to Dubai. From Dubai, this plane reached Taliban-controlled Kandahar, where all the passengers were released on December 31. But in return, our country had to release 3 dangerous terrorists like Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar. Then the then Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh went to Kandahar with these three, where they were handed over to the Afghan Taliban.