Agni Pankh manages to walk into every single trap it should have sidestepped: the unnecessary glamorising of the air force, soppy patriotism and incessant Paki-bashing. Scenes like the one in which Indian POWs threaten to take all of Kashmir and bits of Lahore in "dowry", if only India wasn't the benign, tolerant country she is - stuff like this doesn't help anything. So what is the point of wasting all that reel just to give us the same old song and dance?
The story is set in the Indian Air Force base at Kashmir, where Jimmy Shergill and his buddies fly the unfriendly skies eve....