Ajay Devgn will be donning the director’s hat as well as be acting in the upcoming drama film ‘Mayday’.
Apart from Devgn, the film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Rakul Preet Singh and it’s aiming for release next year on April 29, 2022.
Now, what is the movie about exactly? As per Bollywood Hungama report, Mayday is apparently based on a TRUE INCIDENT of a Jet Airways Doha-Kochi flight that almost crashed because of poor visibility!
On August 18, 2015, flight ‘9W 555’ bearing 141 passengers and 8 crew members took off from Doha. It tried to land at its destination in Kochi but couldn’t due to poor visibility. They tried diverting it to Trivandrum but the visibility was bad there also.
Finally, a Mayday call was initiated. The plane landed at Trivandrum airport on INSUFFICIENT fuel reserve of only 250 kg, a precarious condition indeed – since the minimum fuel reserve for Boeing 737 aircraft is around 1500 kg!
A trade expert says, “The incident made news at that point but was soon forgotten. Hence, audiences would be in for a surprise when they’ll see MayDay and realize that it’s inspired from a shocking, true incident. Also, the papers only reported about the incident but didn’t follow up with the case. So one hardly knows what happened later on. It’s an exciting idea that Ajay Devgn has chosen for his directorial venture.”
Mayday kickstarted shooting in December last year and while a majority of the filming is done, the rising Covid-19 cases put a hurdle in their April schedule this year.
