Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena is the first woman IAF officer to enter a war zone. During the Kargil war in 1999, Gunjan flew Cheetah helicopter in the combat zone and rescued several soldiers.

Janhvi Kapoor plays the ultimate outsider in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, a biopic of the Indian Air Force’s first female combat pilot, out on Netflix on Wednesday. It isn’t as slickly made as Uri: ...