Accounts of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 tend to focus on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. There have also been efforts to spotlight the other sites targetted by the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who arrived in Mumbai to commit mass slaughter.
Nikkhil Advani’s Prime Video series Mumbai Diaries 26/11 (2021) looked at how the staffers of Cama & Albless Hospital dealt with a crisis way above their training. Ismail Khan and Ajmal Kasab walked into the government-run hospital with automatic weapons and grenades on the night of November 26, 2008, intent on killing as many people as possible. The hospital staffers had the presence of mind to shut off the lights and herd the patients – many of them pregnant women – out of sight.
Khan and Kasab did manage to kill seven people, including two security guards.
Manoj Tapadia’s Hindi film Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata zooms in on a sub-group of hospital employees: the nurses. Led by Kangana Ranaut’s Geeta, the nurses act like knights in starched white uniforms.
Tapadia’s debut feature is a crisp, gripping and moving account of uncommon valour in the face of unimaginable horror. Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata is also a tribute to Mumbai’s vital working classes.
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