Got full support from IAF officers: Gunjan
Mumbai, Aug. 14: Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena, whose life story has been made into a feature film, says she was lucky to have the support of commanding officers and supervisors in the IAF but whenever there is a major change in an organisation some individuals take more time to adjust than others.
The Flight Lieutenant’s response comes after the Indian Air Force (IAF) wrote a letter to the censor board objecting to its “undue negative” portrayal
in the movie Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, which released on Netflix on Wednesday.
According to a senior official, the letter mentions “concerns related to the movie’s portrayal of gender bias as an institutional work culture” at the IAF. In a statement, Saxena, who became the first woman pilot to take part in the 1999 Kargil war, said there are different kind of individuals who make up the environment in an organisation.
“Whenever you are in any kind of environment, there are different kinds of individuals that make up that environment so when there is a major change happening, some of these individuals are ready to accept this change more readily than the others and some take more time to adjust to this change. “What is really of importance here is - even though it took time for some individuals to change, those individuals did change, it did happen and in a very positive and right direction,” she said in a statement.
The film charts Saxena’s journey from Lucknow to the Indian Air Force and her role during the Kargil war.