April 8th 2009 began as just another ordinary day for Richard Phillips, the fifty-three-year-old captain of the Maersk Alabama, the US-flagged cargo ship carrying food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program.
Ordinary that is until - some two hundred miles off the Horn of Africa - Somali pirates, armed with AK47s, attacked and boarded the freighter.
Captain Phillips' astonishing story became a book ...
... and a breathtaking film with Padma's favourite actor, Tom Hanks.
When the shooting started, Padma shouted, "Turn it off! Turn it off!"
