Poorna: Courage Has No Limit

Poorna: Courage Has No Limit

Poorna Malavath (Aditi Inamdar) belongs to a Telugu-speaking tribal family in Pakala, Nizamabad district in Telangana. Her parents (mother Lakshmi and father Devidas) are farm labourers. She joins the State Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society for her education. Her talent is spotted by the honest secretary of the society, Dr. R. S. Praveen Kumar (Rahul Bose). The chief minister, N. Kiran Kumar Reddy (Harsha Vardhan), authorises her to go for Operation Everest along with a Dalit mountaineer, Sandhanapalli Anand Kumar (Manoj Kumar). In preparation for climbing Mount Everest, headed by Coach Shekhar Babu (Gyanendra Tripathi) and Colonel Khan (Arif Zakaria), she treks to the mountains of Ladakh and Darjeeling. On 25 May 2014, Poorna scales the highest peak of Mount Everest and, aged 13 years and 11 months, becomes the youngest girl in the world to have reached the summit of Everest.

Director

Rahul Bose

Release

31 Mar 2017

Run time

100 min

Language

Hindi, English, Telugu