Mission Raniganj is based on a real life incident that took place in 1989 in Raniganj coalfields where 65 miners were stuck in the mine, and were rescued by the courageous act of Jaswant Singh Gill.
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Even Akshay has called the film as one of his best films till date. Talking to Times Now Navbharat, he said, “It is not a commercial film. It has not earned as much as it should have earned. But I have come here knowing that the film has not done well, to own the film – and I have done some 150 films by now – and say that this is one of my best films.”
Produced by Vashu Bhagnani, Jackky Bhagnani, Deepshikha Deshmukh, and Ajay Kapoor, the film is directed by Tinu Suresh Desai. Though this is not the first time for the Bhagnanis to have sent a film as an independent entry to the Oscar. Back in 2014, they had also sent their film Youngistaan which starred Jackky Bhagnani and Neha Sharma in the lead as an independent entry. The film did make it to the Oscar -list that year.