| Mission Kashmir | |
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| Directed by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Produced by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Written by | Vikram Chandra Vidhu Vinod Chopra Abhijit Joshi Suketu Mehta Atul Tiwari |
| Starring | Sanjay Dutt Hrithik Roshan Preity Zinta Sonali Kulkarni Jackie Shroff |
| Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan |
| Editing by | Rajkumar Hirani |
| Distributed by | Destination Films Vinod Chopra Productions |
| Release date(s) | October 27, 2000 |
| Running time | 163 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi Urdu English |
Mission Kashmir is a 2000 Bollywood film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and starring Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta and Jackie Shroff as the main characters. Mission Kashmir follows the life and tragedy of a young boy named Altaaf after his entire family gets killed by police officers. Ironically he is adopted by the man who killed them. When Altaaf finds out, he seeks revenge. Released in India on October 27, 2000, the film went on to do moderately well at the box office, and became the third highest grossing film of the year.
The movie deals with the India-Pakistan-conflict and especially with the tragedy of children suffering from war. Its screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Suketu Mehta. The movie was rated R in America due to violence. The film was screened at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
In a valley of astonishing beauty, a small family lives in an idyllic house: a father, a mother, a son. They are the very picture of happiness and love. But appearances are deceptive.
This pastoral landscape is the strife-torn valley of Kashmir, and the son, Altaaf, is an orphan of war who has been adopted by a policeman, Inayat Khan (Sanjay Dutt), and his wife, Neelima (Sonali Kulkarni). Altaaf is slowly recovering from the psychic wounds of seeing his parents and his young sister shot to death before his eyes by a masked man.
One day, Altaaf discovers that the man he now calls "Abba" is the same masked intruder who killed his defenseless family during a firefight with militants. In that single moment of discovery, a warrior is born. Altaaf puts on the same mask that Khan wore during the fatal fight, and flees into the darkness.
Ten years later, a famed guerilla fighter named Hilal Kohistani (Jackie Shroff) leads a determined band of men into the valley of Kashmir. These men are renegades who pride themselves on their distance from any other militant group or government agencies. They are completely unknown and unsupported, and so are eager to make a worldwide reputation for themselves at one stroke.
This group is on a highly secret mission codenamed "Mission Kashmir," a closely-guarded plan that will change the map of the subcontinent forever. For Hilal Kohistani, this all-important end justifies any means. He is absolutely willing to sacrifice millions of human lives, feelings, love, faith. To successfully complete this mission , Hilal Kohistani needs a fearless soldier, a finely -trained fighter whose deadly combat skills and burning anger will drive him unerringly to the target. Hilal Kohistani has just such a man: Altaaf (Hrithik Roshan).
And so Altaaf comes back to the streets and bylanes of his childhood. He fights for Hilal Kohistani, but he is also obsessed with his own private mission : he wants to, he must kill the masked intruder who haunts his nightmares -- Inayat Khan. In Srinagar, he meets his childhood sweetheart, Sufi (Preity Zinta), who is now a vivacious television reporter. In her beauty, compassion, and optimism, Altaaf rediscovers love and hope.
And yet, Altaaf is consumed by his hatred for Khan. As the countdown for Mission Kashmir ticks relentlessly closer towards an apocalypse, Altaaf and Khan engage in a duel to the death.
The fate of Kashmir will depend on the outcome of their final, ferocious encounter. Will Altaaf and Khan kill each other? Will Hilal Kohistani reveal the true purpose of Mission Kashmir? Will the worshippers at the Hazratbal mosque and the Shankracharya temple still be able to pray side by side? Will Kashmiriyat -- the centuries old Kashmiri tradition of religious harmony and tolerance -- live or die?
The answers lie at the heart of... Mission Kashmir.
Music
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| Studio album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | |||||
| Released | 2000 (India) | ||||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | ||||
| Label | Tips | ||||
| Producer | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | ||||
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The soundtrack of the film contains 7 songs. The music is conducted by the award-winning trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, however not as a trio, but separately. Ehsaan Noorani composed three songs, while Shankar Mahadevan and Loy Mendonsa composed two songs each.
| Song | Singer(s) | Composer |
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| Bumbro | Shankar Mahadevan, Jaspinder Narula, Sunidhi Chauhan | Ehsaan Noorani |
| Chupke Se Sun | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Shankar Mahadevan |
| Dhuan Dhuan | Shankar Mahadevan | Shankar Mahadevan |
| Maaf Karo | Vinod Rathod, Anuradha Paudwal | Ehsaan Noorani |
| Rind Posh Maal | Shankar Mahadevan | Loy Mendonsa |
| So Ja Chanda | Mahalaxmi Iyer | Loy Mendonsa |
| Socho Ke Jheelon Ka | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Ehsaan Noorani |
Cast
- Sanjay Dutt ... SSP Inayat Khan
- Hrithik Roshan ... Altaaf
- Preity Zinta ... Sufiya Parvez
- Jackie Shroff ... Hilal Kohistani
- Sonali Kulkarni ... Neelima
- Puru Rajkumar ... Malik Ul Khan
- Abhay Chopra ... Avinash Mattoo
- Vineet Sharma ... Gurdeep Singh
- Rajendra Gupta ... Chief Secretary
- Mohsin Memon ... Young Altaaf
- Yogin Soni ... Irfaan
- Rohit Dua ... Goru
