Mission Kashmir

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. He is adopted by the man who killed them. When Altaaf finds out, he seeks revenge. Released in India on 27 October 2000, the film was a box-office success, 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.

Synopsis

Inayat Khan (Sanjay Dutt) is a police officer responsible for the security of Kashmir. One day, his young son Irfaan (Yogin Soni) suffers an accident and because of a fatwa instigated by the leader of a terrorist group, doctors refused to treat the child. Khan angrily swears to kill the doctors if they don't treat his son, but they still refused to do it, saying they are willing to die in order to ensure their families' safety from being victims of the fatwa. As a result, Irfaan dies, and Khan swears to put an end to the threat of the terrorist group in revenge of his son's death. After finding out that the group of terrorists is taking refuge in the village...
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