This film was a bit tough to dissect. Hopefully, you get what you need out of both the film and our discussion.
Based on true events, Hotel Mumbai stars Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar, Jason Isaacs, and a boat-load more Indian actors tell the story of the staff and guests of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, during a fierce three-day terror attack perpetrated across the entire city.
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I listened to your review of ‘Hotel Mumbai’ and I thank you for the same.
I would like to point out a few things:
1.This movie does a fantastic job of recreating the actual events as they happened.
2.The factual inaccuracies of some of the characters being fictional are some of the liberties the film makers took, agreed.
3.But leaving those apart, the film is quite accurate, For example, the conversations between the ‘bull’ and the terrorists were taken verbatim from telephonic transcript records from the incident.
The action and the horror that ensued were probably more intense than what was shown onscreen.
The clinical manner in which the terrorists are shown to kill the ppl is real coz they were trained for this purpose.
Yes American tourists were specifically targeted.
A Jewish couple were killed at nariman point (which is not shown in the film) they were specifically targeted for being Jewish.
The masterminds behind these attacks still live freely in Pakistan.
The then govt in power deliberately undermined national security by not responding adequately to these attacks.
The group responsible for the attacks namely Lashkar e tayyiba has the backing of the Pakistani army.
Prof Christine Fair of Georgetown University is an expert on how terror networks in Pakistan operate and you may consult her work(s).
‘Hotel Mumbai’ - is personal to me coz, one of the sites of the terrorists attack, the Mumbai train station is very familiar to me having been there several times and also I know ppl who missed trains by few minutes and thus are alive today. It is an important film to watch to understand what India went and still goes through.
In particular, it’s a lesson for those in law enforcement (and the armed forces). The masterminds of this attack live freely in Pakistan and continue to plan attacks against India as well the allied forces (including American soldiers) in Afghanistan.
It’s India’s equivalent of 9/11.
This is state sponsored terrorism unlike other one off terror attacks. A state that gets funded by the US as an ally.