Mountain or molehill?
At 19, Mumbai girl Krushnaa Patil became the youngest Indian woman to climb Everest in 2009. But filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker’s television debut about the world’s highest mountain has left the peak-conqueror piqued.
Patil says, “Our films and art have to be a reflection of society. That father in Everest should be publicly shamed. If the writers had just looked around, spoken to some people who have actually scaled Everest, the truth would be out.

Top of the world: Krushnaa Patil