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Starring:
Tarun Khanna, Natasha Singh, Vikram Gokhale, Mukesh
Tiwari, Pramod Moutho, Neena Kulkarni
Direction:
Vinod R. Thakur
A different film from other
movies based on the subject of terrorism as there is
almost no violence in the movie. A perfect example of a
youth who is confused and can easily be pushed in to the
terrorism.
Debutant director Vinod R. Thakur attempts to re-live
the tragic attack on parliament in 2001. It was almost a
decade ago that the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed
terrorists attacked the India Parliament in New Delhi.
Several policemen and civilians were killed, and then
finally the 5 terrorists were slayed by the security
forces.
Shahid comes to Delhi and join’s the professor’s
associates, Aftab and Gazi. Now they hatch a plan to
attack Indian Parliament. To enter easily inside the
Parliament, they kidnap the Police Commissioner Abbas
Ali Baig’s wife, daughter-in-law and grandson.
It so happens that before the attack on Parliament could
be carried out, there is a blast in Mumbai’s local
trains. This incident shakes up Shahid and incidently he
comes across a good Musalmaan (Vikram Gokhale). The
motive wrong of jehadis occur to him and Shahid realizes
his mistake. Finally, he surrenders but his accomplices
end their lives.
Tarun Khanna and Natasha’s performances in the film are
fine. Natasha is fresh looking even without make-up in
many scenes. Other artistes Vikram Gokhale, Pramod
Moutho, and Neena Kulkarni too have given credit worthy
performance.
Credits & Crew:
Banner - JMJ International
Director - Vinod R Thakur
Producer - Manoj B. Jangid
Music Director - Afsar - Sajid
Lyrics - Shahab Allahabadi
Cinematographer - Shakeel Khan
Editor Mansoor – Azmi
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Shahid (Tarun Khanna) is a
good-natured young man, who loves his `ammi’ (mother)
and his `watan’ (mother-land) with equal fervor. He
lives with his mother in Pathanwadi, and like any normal
guy, Shahid has friends, Arjun and Rafiq with whom he
has close relationship and shares everything. His
girlfriend Raavi (Natasha Singh) is a Hindu. His life is
going smoothly until a professor from Delhi, Javed (Pramod
Moutho), comes and influences him, preaching about `sachche
Musalmaan’ and `qaum ke liye ladaai’ which means – a
true muslim and fight for the community at large.
The professor infuses the doctrine of jehad and
brainwashes him. Under his influence, Shahid leaves his
home, and from a simple boy, he is now transformed into
a terrorist. By the end of the first half of this film,
Shahid is now a complete convert to the cause of `his’
people, and is all set to play with `gola’ and `barood’.
This film has much of
dialogues and a little action. The director tries hard
to show a patriotic responsible citizen's effort to make
terrorist realize that they are being wrongly motivated
to carry out such cruel activities. Some dialogues do
touch the heart while the music by Afsar-Sajid isn’t
impressive. The second half has a very strong message to
the common man not to come under wrong influence.
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PAW
Cast:
Tarun Khanna
Natasha Singh
Vikram Gokhale
Mukesh Tiwari
Neena Kulkarni
Pramod Moutho
Usha Nadkarni
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