Before November 26, 2008, Hemant Oberoi was only the executive chef of the Taj Mahal Hotel in India.
The chef of this luxurious five-star hotel has once served as the chef of political figures including former US President Black Obama and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Picked up by any guest, they are all well-known industry leaders and political figures. .
But soon, these experiences are irrelevant.
On this day, the Pakistani terrorist organization Pious Army instructed ten heavily armed young men to land from the west coast of Mumbai, armed with AK47s, grenades and various other explosive devices, scattered like glass shards to a few crowds in the Indian financial center. In the area, foreign tourists were the main targets, and unarmed local civilians were shot and killed at will.
This bloody massacre lasted for three full days and was not put down by the Indian National Special Forces until the 29th, resulting in at least 166 deaths and 300 injuries.
The Taj Mahal Hotel, where Hemant Oberoi was at the time, has also become one of the main targets of the attack.
In the Mumbai terrorist attacks that lasted for several days, he led the kitchen staff and protected hotel guests to retreat under the guns of terrorists. He became a national hero of India and even a pioneer model for the entire human race against terrorism, giving this chaotic world Lay a cardiotonic agent.
This is also the only character in the film "Mumbai Hotel" shot in Australia in 2018 that retains his real name.
In order to respect the privacy of the parties, the director Anthony Maras concealed most people’s true information in the film. At the same time, out of the needs of plot creation, the facts and information involved were blended and sorted artistically, so Most of the characters in the movie are fictitious, and the plot is heavily modified based on the original facts.
But the people who have paid attention to this matter are especially Indians. Hemant Oberoi is a name that can no longer be familiar. To this day, his story is still repeatedly reported by the global media.
Anyone who has watched a movie will definitely know that in the movie, the executive chef who calmly organizes hotel staff and guards customers in the face of danger must be Hemant Oberoi, so the director simply and generously uses his real name in the movie. .
In fact, most of the story lines about the chef in the movie are in line with the actual situation.
According to his memories, when the staff informed him that there was a shooting in the hotel, his first reaction was that the film crew/magazine team was shooting, and he did not expect it to be a real shooting. (This paragraph is not reflected in the movie)
But soon Oberoi realized that this was a real attack.
At that time, some customers knew what was going on, while some were still at a loss and at a loss.
Even an executive chef who is used to seeing big scenes cannot calmly face such a fatal crisis. But he realized that it is not only his own life that is at stake, but also the many customers and employees in the hotel.
He immediately ordered to turn off the lights in the nearby area (this was moved to the other protagonist of the movie, Arjun), and bought enough time for the next organizational evacuation, and also avoided the terrorists' sweeping shooting.
As the chef of the hotel, Oberoi knows that the various restaurants in the hotel are definitely not a safe place to stay. He needs to transfer customers to a more secluded VIP club as soon as possible, avoiding the surveillance cameras of the hotel, and waiting for rescue.
Later, I learned that there was no hope for rescue, and immediately organized the staff to arrange a retreat plan, and led the customers to leave the hotel through the staff channel.
But this is not without risk, because in the retreat process, it is possible to be discovered by terrorists at any time.
At the scene, he gave more than 70 subordinates a choice to leave or stay to protect their guests.
For Oberoi, protecting the guests who come to his territory from harm is out of the instinct to guard life. This instinct is not available to everyone, and it is impossible to require everyone to have this selfless heart. But there are so few faint stars in the entire race, it is enough.
No one can blame them for leaving, because they have their own lives and their families need protection
We are grateful for staying.
Oberoi and the hotel team protected the comprehensiveness of at least 170 customers, but many employees were killed by terrorists in the process, including the sous chef who was close to Oberoi.
Oberoi is a man of strong beliefs. He believes that the only way to recover from trauma is to continue living.
Three restaurants in the Taj Mahal Hotel were hit hard in the attack. With his efforts, one of them (Rendezvous) was successfully reopened and resumed three weeks later.
This is Oberoi's powerful counterattack against terrorists as a civilian.
What you snatched from us, I can always get it back.
There is so much anger in my heart, why can they destroy everything we have worked so hard in a moment? We come here every day to work and live. This is our home, and they destroyed our home, so casually, they destroyed the home that we have operated for many years.
I told the employees that our homes will be rebuilt, and we must restore our lives in a speed and way that they cannot believe.
The world we live in
is getting better with proud
sinking unprecedentedly as well no doubt
put it out
put it out
put it out
but we are hardly the generation
to see its end
The world is getting better and better
Degenerate unprecedentedly
But we are far from
The generation that witnessed the end
But "Mumbai Hotel" is not an ode to the glorious deeds of a hero, Hemant Oberoi, but a group portrait story. It tells how a group of innocent ordinary people help each other and struggle for survival in the face of man-made death threats.
Although the title is "Mumbai Hotel", the attack actually included two hotels, the Oberoi Trident and the Taj Mahal, as well as a cafe, CST train station, Karma Hospital and Nariman Center. It was also attacked.
Except for Hemant Oberoi, who is a real person, the other characters and plots of the film are all fictional based on the actual situation for better theatrical effects.
David & Zahra, played by Amy Hammer and Nathanin Boniati, is the experience of several groups of parties. There are the rabbi and his wife who were shot in the Jewish center, and another Muslim couple who was attacked in a hotel (the last Survived).
The plot of Zahra reciting the prayer to be saved when the gangster is about to shoot her is also very "movie bridge".
Jason Isaac (the metamorphosis of "Foresight") played by NV Capital Group founder + former Soviet special forces officer Vasili was a combination of a real rich man and a special retiree in the incident.
Compared with Amy Hammer, who is a traffic star, Dave Patel ("Slumdog Millionaire", "Lion", "Newsroom") played by hotel attendant Arjun is more like the central character of the movie. Not only after the terrorist attack, the hotel restaurant waiter was instructed to turn off the lights immediately (using Hemant Oberoi's response at the time), and it also took on many rescue operations for civilians (including hotel employees and foreign tourists).
Compared to his distinguished customers and chefs, Arjun represents the group of people most affected by this incident: the local civilians in Mumbai.
They live in poverty, have their own families, and work hard day after day to make themselves and their families happy. They didn't blame the heavens and others, didn't shift the responsibility of poverty to others, even if they were like ants, they kept their own world.
They take their work seriously, go to work on time, receive customers politely, and are familiar with the content of their work.
This enthusiasm and resilience for life allows them to push themselves in times of crisis and do their best to help those in need.
The distance that a helping hand is extended is the maximum elastic length of sexual goodness.
Arjun is not a real person either, but a combination of the stories of at least two characters in the incident: a hotel attendant who immediately let customers hide under the dining table when the mob rushed into the hotel, and an unarmed person The hotel security staff, he took the risk to take two police officers to the CCTV monitoring room of the hotel in order to better control the location of the terrorists in the hotel.
Although the film differs greatly from the reality, the information and history it conveys is very consistent:
The strong empathy, courage and vigorous desire for survival demonstrated by civilians in distress when the official support force has not arrived. These unarmed people, rich or poor, have no rules to follow in the face of death and despair, but they tried their best to make an effective counterattack.
In particular, it should be pointed out that the incompetence of the Indian police force shown in the film is not exaggerated in the slightest, and is consistent with the reality.
From the first terrorist attack on the 26th, the NSG team (Indian National Security Guard) did not arrive at the scene until ten hours later. Part of the reason was that Mumbai was not equipped with special forces and had to be mobilized from New Delhi, 800 miles away, until the 29th. The national counter-terrorism forces joined the NSG to invade the Taj Mahal Hotel and kill the terrorists.
India’s defense response capability and speed have aroused extreme dissatisfaction among the people and has been widely criticized in the country.
In the actual incident, the terrorists did learn about the hiding place of the guests of the Taj Mahal Hotel from the news reports. I was really worried about the IQ of the Indian news media personnel.
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