Bangistan

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Bangistan
Bangistan First Look.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Karan Anshuman
Written byPuneet Krishna
Sumit Purohit
Karan Anshuman
Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani
Farhan Akhtar
Starring Riteish Deshmukh
Pulkit Samrat
Jacqueline Fernandez
Arya Babbar
Tomasz Karolak
Chandan Roy Sanyal
Cinematography Szymon Lenkowski
Music by Ram Sampath
Production
companies
Distributed by AA Films
Release date
  • 7 August 2015 (2015-08-07)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Bangistan is a 2015 Indian black comedy satirical film directed by Karan Anshuman, produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, and starring Riteish Deshmukh and Pulkit Samrat, with Arya Babbar, Tomasz Karolak and Chandan Roy Sanyal in supporting roles. [1] Jacqueline Fernandez appeared in a cameo. In the film, Hafeez and Praveen, two brainwashed suicide bombers from conflicting religions, go on a mission to blast a meeting of religious leaders in Poland. However, due to a turn of events, they change their minds about the bombing.

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The film was scheduled to release on 31 July 2015 but was delayed to 7 August 2015. [2] [3] It was banned by Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors for depicting suicide bombers. [4]

Plot

The story is set in Bangistan, a fictitious country divided between Muslims in the north and Hindus in the south.

Hafeez bin Ali is a Muslim call centre worker who quit his job and became a terrorist after an imam persuaded him to "reach heaven" through a suicide bombing at the World Religious Conference in Kraków, Poland. To cover his identity and his relationship with the cleric, Hafeez enters Poland as a Hindu named Ishwarchand Sharma.

Praveen Chaturvedi is a Hindu kar sevak who shows a lot of respect to godman Guruji and would not hesitate to use violence on anyone who insults him. Tasked by Guruji to attack the World Religious Conference, Praveen assumes the identity of a Muslim, Allah Rakha Khan. In Kraków, he and Hafeez quickly befriended each other, lived in the same hotel and fell in love with Rosie, an Indian waitress they met in a bar.

Hafeez and Praveen buy explosives from Polish and Chinese dealers respectively, using them to make bombs in their respective hotel rooms. After Praveen realised that Hafeez's intention of terrorism is the same as his own, the two men started working together while also acknowledging the influences of their respective bosses. However, things turned sour when they revealed each other's true identities, accidentally set off the bomb after a fight and got arrested.

Meanwhile, back in Bangistan, both Guruji and Hafeez's imam discover their situation and decide to conduct the attack on their own. The latter sends a hitman to kill Hafeez in the hospital, but the police had begun sending him and Praveen to prison until they escaped along the way. Hafeez and Praveen agreed to stop the bombing from going ahead, not knowing that the latter was still in touch with Guruji.

At the conference, Hafeez sees Praveen tying bombs around his body, causing another scuffle that was resolved peacefully. He then snatches another bomb from a separate terrorist sent by the imam only for police to intervene. Amidst the chaos, the terrorist reclaims his bomb and detonates it as Hafeez and Praveen jumped away. However, the resulting blast was not powerful enough to kill them. The Polish arms dealer Hafeez met burst into laughter seeing how weak the bomb was on television.

Cast

Music

The soundtrack of the album is composed by Ram Sampath, and lyrics written by Puneet Krishna. The Soundtrack Album of this film was released on July 11, 2015.

No.TitleSingersLength
1."Ishq Karenge" Sona Mohapatra, Abhishek Nailwal & Shadab Faridi04:26
2."Hogi Kranti"Ram Sampath & Abhishek Nailwal03:08
3."Saturday Night" Aditi Singh Sharma, Benny Dayal, Neeraj Shridhar and Janusz Krucinski03:40
4."Maula"Ram Sampath & Rituraj Mohanty04:45
5."Meri Zidd"Ram Sampath & Siddharth Basrur 03:24
6."Is Duniya Se Ladna Hai" Suraj Jagan & Abhishek Nailwal02:39
7."Ishq Karenge (EDM Version)"Sona Mohapatra, Abhishek Nailwal & Shadab Faridi04:12
Total length:18:20

Marketing and release

The film was released on 7 August. Mike McCahill gave it three stars [6] in The Guardian. Bangistan was released on 700 screens in India. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Bangistan Movie Review: Is BANGISTAN a comedy?". Glamsham. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "'Bangistan' teaser poster out! - Entertainment". Mid-day.com. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Patrick Frater (22 April 2014). "Bollywood's 'Bangistan' to Shoot in Poland". Variety. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Mahmood, Rafay (6 August 2015). "Bangistan gets a 'complete ban' by central censor board". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "'Bangistan' movie - Comic Police Scene with Ritesh Deshmukh, Megh Pant & Zachary Coffin". YouTube.com. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Bangistan review – always something to chuckle at in sly suicide-bomber comedy". The Guardian . 8 August 2015. Archived from the original on 25 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "Mission Impossible And Bangistan First Day Business". Boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
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