Overview
Cockpit is an Indian Bengali language romantic thriller film directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee and produced by Dev under the banner of Dev Entertainment Ventures. The film features Dev, Koel Mallick and Rukmini Maitra in the lead roles. This is the second time Kamaleshwar Mukherjee and Dev are working as a director-actor duo, after the 2013 film Chander Pahar. The film got positive response from critics and audience and was a box office 'hit'.
Plot
Cockpit is a story inspired by true incidents. The story follows a flight that is going from Mumbai to Kolkata and gets hit from bad turbulent weather. The film will follow as the pilot attempts to land the plane, even with damaged engines.
1996
The film opens with date 12 November 1996. Capt. Divakar Rakshit (Prosenjit Chaterjee) is commanding a flight from London to Delhi. Divakar interacts with his Co-Pilot about his further plans after reaching Delhi. He says that he will then fly back to Kolkata to celebrate his son's birthday, after much conversation the crew finally starts it descend to Delhi. Meanwhile Another aircraft has taken off from Delhi, the ATC orders the flight to ascend but the captain didn't hear it properly. And suddenly both the aircraft come face to face. Both the pilots try their best to evade but it's too late resulting in a deadly crash, killing passengers and crew of both the aircraft.
Present Day
Capt. Dibyendu Rakshit (Dev) son of late Capt. Divakar Rakshit, is now serving as a Captain of Boeing 737 in Oriental Airlines. Dibyendu is preparing for his return flight back to Kolkata, and also to meet his wife as it's his first anniversary. Dev also sees the news as weather condition worsens both in Mumbai and Kolkata. Kirti Sachdev a flight attendant and she is planning to quit flying after flying BOM-CCU sector which is her last flight accompanied by her friend and roommate Justin. The film also sees various passengers boarding this flight.
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