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Son Of Sunny Mathews - The Real 'Ranjit Katyal', Gives An Account Of His Father's Sacrifice!
Recalling his father’s efforts, Mathew added:
"My dad stayed on till the last ship went out. He made sure that he stayed on till every Indian was evacuated. Even when we were sent to Baghdad from Kuwait, he came with us, but then went back to Kuwait to make sure that the rest of the Indians back there were safe. He was away for two months then with no communication. He had left a note with my mother saying that she should open it only if he never comes back."
Even when the situation was turning more and more dreadful, he said that his father managed to keep his cool. Apart from saving and evacuating so many lives, he also protected their belongings. He added: "There was this family in our neighbourhood which had kept its gold ornaments in a bucket for safety. Dad went to their house after they were evacuated, took the bucket and buried it behind our house. When that family came back, he returned it to them."
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Who is Ranjit Katyal and is his story true?
Ranjit Katiyal is a fictional character.
Yes, to all your surprise, there was not one person behind this massive evacuation. The real evacuation(airlift) was carried out between Amman, capital of Jordan and Delhi. It was all possible because of heroics of our Ministry of External Affairs.
The MEA officials posted in Kuwait that time, the journalists and the people of Air India deny any Ranjit Katiyal during the whole operation.
As per Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Embassy was behind this operation.
Below are the accounts of four persons related with the evacuation that strengthen my postulation:
KP Fabian who was the then head of Gulf Division in Ministry of External Affairs deny presence of any such person during the operation. He says that India had good relations with Saddam Hussein and nobody else was needed. IP Khosla was additional secretary who accompanied Inder Kumar Gujral, the then minister of external affairs, to Kuwait, too endorses KP Fabian.
Air India had flown nearly 500 flights from Amman to Delhi between 13th Aug 1990 and 11th Oct 1990. Jitender Bhargava, former executive director of Air India, also has similar views. He says that he had a word with the then AI regional director of the gulf and the middle east region Michael Mascarenhas, who also had denied knowing anyone named Ranjit Katiyal.
Javed Ahmed, a journalist, lives in Kuwait for 35 years. He had witnessed the gulf war closely and interacted with many Indians there who were clueless about any such person among them. Upon watching the trailer of the film, he claimed that the film has nothing to with the reality. He says the film talks about Dasman Palace, where actually no one lived that time as rich Kuwaitis had fled. Javed claims he was present there at that time.
AK Shrivastava was engineer in one oil project in Iraq. Living in Gurgaon now, he recounts that he had little problem in Baghdad during those 2 months. He says that he didn't face much trouble as Jordan borders were open and it helped people in reaching Amman without much ado. In an interview to Indian Foreign Affairs journal, he says that after the news of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, minster of external affairs Inder Kumar Gujral, IP Khosla and Shrivastava himself had visited Saddam Hussein. Gujral’s visit included a famous embrace by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, which earned him a lot of flak from the media. Iraq agreed to tacitly permit the Indian evacuation efforts, but there was no Ranjit Katiyal
Rationally speaking, any one person who showed such an act of bravery can't go unnoticed. Akshay Kumar, however, has been seen telling in media umpteen number of times about the research done before conceptualizing the film but as we can see, most of the people who were actually related some or the other way with this evacuation, deny knowing any Ranjit Katiyal, it is highly probable that a fictional story has been woven around a real life incident and film's cast and crew are trying to sensationalize the issue to gain attention, publicity and viewers. Sounds similar to what was done during release of Ek Tha Tiger, isn't it?
(Sources: 1. http://www.associationdiplomats....
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ranjit-...his-story-true
Son Of Sunny Mathews - The Real 'Ranjit Katyal', Gives An Account Of His Father's Sacrifice!
Recalling his father’s efforts, Mathew added:
"My dad stayed on till the last ship went out. He made sure that he stayed on till every Indian was evacuated. Even when we were sent to Baghdad from Kuwait, he came with us, but then went back to Kuwait to make sure that the rest of the Indians back there were safe. He was away for two months then with no communication. He had left a note with my mother saying that she should open it only if he never comes back."
Even when the situation was turning more and more dreadful, he said that his father managed to keep his cool. Apart from saving and evacuating so many lives, he also protected their belongings. He added: "There was this family in our neighbourhood which had kept its gold ornaments in a bucket for safety. Dad went to their house after they were evacuated, took the bucket and buried it behind our house. When that family came back, he returned it to them."
[url]http://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/son-of-sunny-mathews-the-real-ranjit-katyal-gives-an-account-of-his-father-s-sacrifice-249783.html[/url
Who is Ranjit Katyal and is his story true?
Ranjit Katiyal is a fictional character.
Yes, to all your surprise, there was not one person behind this massive evacuation. The real evacuation(airlift) was carried out between Amman, capital of Jordan and Delhi. It was all possible because of heroics of our Ministry of External Affairs.
The MEA officials posted in Kuwait that time, the journalists and the people of Air India deny any Ranjit Katiyal during the whole operation.
As per Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Embassy was behind this operation.
Below are the accounts of four persons related with the evacuation that strengthen my postulation:
KP Fabian who was the then head of Gulf Division in Ministry of External Affairs deny presence of any such person during the operation. He says that India had good relations with Saddam Hussein and nobody else was needed. IP Khosla was additional secretary who accompanied Inder Kumar Gujral, the then minister of external affairs, to Kuwait, too endorses KP Fabian.
Air India had flown nearly 500 flights from Amman to Delhi between 13th Aug 1990 and 11th Oct 1990. Jitender Bhargava, former executive director of Air India, also has similar views. He says that he had a word with the then AI regional director of the gulf and the middle east region Michael Mascarenhas, who also had denied knowing anyone named Ranjit Katiyal.
Javed Ahmed, a journalist, lives in Kuwait for 35 years. He had witnessed the gulf war closely and interacted with many Indians there who were clueless about any such person among them. Upon watching the trailer of the film, he claimed that the film has nothing to with the reality. He says the film talks about Dasman Palace, where actually no one lived that time as rich Kuwaitis had fled. Javed claims he was present there at that time.
AK Shrivastava was engineer in one oil project in Iraq. Living in Gurgaon now, he recounts that he had little problem in Baghdad during those 2 months. He says that he didn't face much trouble as Jordan borders were open and it helped people in reaching Amman without much ado. In an interview to Indian Foreign Affairs journal, he says that after the news of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, minster of external affairs Inder Kumar Gujral, IP Khosla and Shrivastava himself had visited Saddam Hussein. Gujral’s visit included a famous embrace by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, which earned him a lot of flak from the media. Iraq agreed to tacitly permit the Indian evacuation efforts, but there was no Ranjit Katiyal
Rationally speaking, any one person who showed such an act of bravery can't go unnoticed. Akshay Kumar, however, has been seen telling in media umpteen number of times about the research done before conceptualizing the film but as we can see, most of the people who were actually related some or the other way with this evacuation, deny knowing any Ranjit Katiyal, it is highly probable that a fictional story has been woven around a real life incident and film's cast and crew are trying to sensationalize the issue to gain attention, publicity and viewers. Sounds similar to what was done during release of Ek Tha Tiger, isn't it?
(Sources: 1. http://www.associationdiplomats....
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ranjit-...his-story-true