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Mission Mangal film review: more workplace soap opera than space drama, this is no Bollywood take on The Martian

2/5 stars Created in August 1969, just weeks after the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019. To mark the occasion, Jagan Shakti’s film Mission Mangal dramatises one of the ISRO’s most ambitious programmes to date: the launch of the unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission space probe, in 2013. Success would make India the first Asian nation to reach Mars on its maiden attempt, but failure would exacerbate the mockery from Nasa and…

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