Guwahati: Former Indian Air Force pilot Sreevidya Rajan, who was posted with Gunjan Saxena on the IAF base in Udhampur, has claimed that the makers of 'Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl' have twisted the facts given by Gunjan for the sake of publicity.
Stating this on Facebook, she said that it was really her and never Gunjan who was the first woman pilot to fly in Kargil.
Taking to her Facebook account, Rajan wrote a protracted post reminiscing life on the IAF Udhampur base.
In her post, she talked about the difficulty they confronted because of "no separate toilet facilities and changing rooms for ladies in the unit" and" preconceived notions and prejudices from a few colleagues."
Sreevidya Rajan informed that a majority of male officers accepted them with utter respect, and their flying was "never interrupted or cancelled for petty reasons as wrongly portrayed in the movie"
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, which released on Netflix last week, is facing flak and controversies with the IAF, which has raised several objections and written a letter to the Censor Board objecting to the "undue negative" portrayal.
As per reports, Gunjan Saxena shared that she personally never faced any kind of bias at IAF.
She also said that "since the bias is not at an organizational level, the experiences of different woman officers would be different. To deny it completely speaks of a feudal mindset and undermines the grit of women officers."
It is to be mentioned that the biopic 'Gunjan Saxena:The Kargil Girl' has been directed by Sharan Sharma. and produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions. The film also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi, Vineet Kumar Singh and Ayesha Raza Mishra.