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| Directed by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
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| Produced by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
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| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan |
| Edited by | Rajkumar Hirani |
| Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
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Running time | 161 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹120 million[1] |
| Box office | ₹433 million[2] |
Mission Kashmir is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Jackie Shroff, Preity Zinta, and Sonali Kulkarni. It deals with what is defined by Western standards as terrorism and the tragedy of children suffering from war.
Mission Kashmir follows a young boy Altaaf Khan, who gets adopted by a police chief as his police team accidentally kills Altaaf's entire family. After finding out, he seeks revenge and becomes what the West regards a terrorist. Rated R in the United States due to violence, the film was screened at the Stockholm International Film Festival and released theatrically in India and worldwide on 27 October 2000 during the Diwali festival.
The film clashed with Aditya Chopra's musical romance Mohabbatein which starred Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai in lead roles. Nevertheless, it was a critical and commercial success with global revenues of ₹433 million (US$5.2 million), emerging as the 3rd highest-grossing Hindi film of 2000.[2] It won the Filmfare Award for Best Action and had similarities with Roshan's another 2000 film Fiza, in which he also played a terrorist.
- ^ Aiyar, Shankkar; Unnithan, Sandeep (10 July 2000). "Bollywood goes global, powered by diaspora dollar". India Today. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Mission Kashmir – Movie". Box Office India. Retrieved 20 May 2021.