Mission Kashmir

Mission Kashmir
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
Music by	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography	Binod Pradhan
Editing by	Rajkumar Hirani
Studio	Ramoji Film City Srinagar
Distributed by	Vinod Chopra Productions Destination Films
Release date(s)	27 October 2000
Running time	161 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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 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.

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 of the leader of a terrorist group, no doctor treats the child and he dies. While trying to wipe out the group of terrorists, Khan and his men accidentally end up killing an entire family along with the criminals. A young boy named Altaaf is the only member of the family who survives. He is severely traumatized by seeing his parents die before his eyes and is haunted by the memory of the masked face of one of the police officers who shot at his family; as it turns out, that police officer happened to be Khan. Khan's wife Neelima (Sonali Kulkarni), having just lost Irfaan and feeling sorry for Altaaf, attempts to persuade Khan to let them adopt the boy. Khan, despite his fear that Altaaf may one day discover the truth and blame Khan for killing his family, reluctantly agrees.

Just when Altaaf seems to have settled down in his new home and has accepted Khan and Neelima as his parents, he one day finds Khan's mask in the house and realizes that it was Khan who had killed his family. After an unsuccessful attempt on Khan's life, Altaaf runs away and is found and brought up by a terrorist group led by Hilal Kohistani (Jackie Shroff), who brainwashes him into thinking that he and his men act according to Islamic principles and trains him to become a terrorist. Now an adult, Altaaf (Hrithik Roshan) is assigned the task of completing "Mission Kashmir," a plan of Hilal's that involves- or so Altaaf is told- killing the Indian Prime Minister. Hilal uses Altaaf's hatred of Khan as a means to achieve his own goals, all the while encouraging Altaaf to target Khan. Altaaf visits his childhood friend Sufiya Parvez (Preity Zinta) and though he falls in love with her, he still uses her to try and make Hilal's side plans successful. He makes another unsuccessful attempt on Khan's life, and in the process Khan recognizes him and begins trying to track him down.

Eventually Khan, now an Inspector General for Kashmir, manages to invade one of Hilal's men's hideouts and discovers evidence and information about "Mission Kashmir." After going through some cassette tapes he realizes that "Mission Kashmir" really has nothing at all to do with the death of the Indian Prime Minister: instead, Hilal's true intention is to target and bomb a Muslim mosque and a Hindu temple in order to unleash Hindu-Muslim conflict across the subcontinent, thereby dividing India and destroying Kashmir. Hilal deliberately does not tell Altaaf what "Mission Kashmir" really is, knowing that Altaaf would not support it and would try to stop it.

The climax of the film depicts a weary Khan attempting to convince an enraged, hate-filled Altaaf that even though his mistake had ruined his adopted son's life, Altaaf's mistake of following the terrorists will ruin the lives of all Kashmiris and lead to the destruction of the entire Indian sub-continent.

Music

Mission Kashmir
Studio album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Released	2000 (India)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Tips
Producer	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy chronology
Bhopal Express (1999) Mission Kashnir (2000) Dil Chahta Hai (2001)

The soundtrack of the film contains seven 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.

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

External links

• Mission Kashmir at the Internet Movie Database

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