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| name          = Bangistan
| name          = Bangistan
| image          = Bangistan First Look.jpg
| image          = Bangistan First Look.jpg
| caption        = First Look
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director      = Karan Anshuman
| director      = [[Karan Anshuman]]
| producer      = [[Ritesh Sidhwani]] <br> [[Farhan Akhtar]]
| producer      = [[Ritesh Sidhwani]]<br>[[Farhan Akhtar]]
| starring      = [[Riteish Deshmukh ]]<br>[[Pulkit Samrat]]<br>[[Jacqueline Fernandez]]<br>[[Arya Babbar]]<br>[[Tomasz Karolak]]<br>[[Chandan Roy Sanyal]]
| starring      = [[Riteish Deshmukh]]<br>[[Pulkit Samrat]]<br>[[Jacqueline Fernandez]]<br>[[Arya Babbar]]<br>[[Tomasz Karolak]]<br>[[Chandan Roy Sanyal]]
| writer     = Puneet Krishna<br>Sumit Purohit<br>Karan Anshuman
| writer         = Puneet Krishna<br>Sumit Purohit<br>Karan Anshuman
| music          = [[Ram Sampath]]
| music          = [[Ram Sampath]]
| cinematography = [[Szymon Lenkowski]]
| cinematography = [[Szymon Lenkowski]]
| studio        = [[Excel Entertainment]]
| studio        = [[Junglee Pictures]]<br>[[Excel Entertainment]]
| distributor    = [[AA Films]]
| distributor    = [[AA Films]]
| released      = {{Film date|df=y|2015|08|7}}
| released      = {{Film date|df=y|2015|08|7}}
| budget       =  
| budget         =  
| gross   =  
| gross         =  
| country        = India
| country        = India
| language      = Hindi
| language      = Hindi
| runtime = 135 minutes
| runtime = 135 minutes
}}
}}
'''''Bangistan''''' is a 2015 [[Bollywood]] [[black comedy]] [[satire]] film directed by [[Karan Anshuman]] and produced by [[Farhan Akhtar]] and [[Ritesh Sidhwani]] starring [[Riteish Deshmukh]], [[Pulkit Samrat]] in lead roles while [[Arya Babbar]], [[Tomasz Karolak]] and [[Chandan Roy Sanyal]] in supporting roles.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/bangistan-movie-review.asp |title=  Bangistan Movie Review: Is BANGISTAN a comedy? |publisher=Glamsham |accessdate=7 August 2015}}</ref> [[Jacqueline Fernandez]] appeared in a cameo. The film was scheduled to release on 31 July  2015 but got delayed to 7 August 2015 (31 July 2015 in the [[United States]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/bangistan-teaser-poster-out/15441179 |title='Bangistan' teaser poster out! - Entertainment |publisher=Mid-day.com |date= |accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Patrick Frater |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/bollywoods-bangistan-to-shoot-in-poland-1201160820/ |title=Bollywood's 'Bangistan' to Shoot in Poland |publisher=Variety |date=2014-04-22 |accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref> The Trailer of the film was released on 11 June. The film was released on 7 August to mixed reviews from critics. Mike McCahill gave it three stars <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/08/bangistan-review-suicide-bomber-comedy-bollywood The Guardian Bangistan review]</ref> in The Guardian. Bangistan was released on 700 screens in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/Details/art_detail/missionimpossibleandbangistanfirstdaybusiness#.VcboBouUdyx|title=Mission Impossible And Bangistan First Day Business|publisher=Boxofficeindia.com|accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref>
'''''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.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/bangistan-movie-review.asp |title=  Bangistan Movie Review: Is BANGISTAN a comedy? |publisher=Glamsham |accessdate=7 August 2015}}</ref> [[Jacqueline Fernandez]] appeared in a cameo. In the film, Hafeez and Praveen, two brainwashed terrorists from conflicting religions, plan to perform a [[suicide attack]] at a religious conference in Poland. However, a turn of events saw them change their minds.


The film's satellite rights were sold to [[Zee TV]] along with the satellite rights of ''[[Dil Dhadakne Do]]''.
The film was scheduled to release on 31 July 2015 but was delayed to 7 August 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/bangistan-teaser-poster-out/15441179 |title='Bangistan' teaser poster out! - Entertainment |publisher=Mid-day.com |date= 11 July 2014|accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Patrick Frater |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/bollywoods-bangistan-to-shoot-in-poland-1201160820/ |title=Bollywood's 'Bangistan' to Shoot in Poland |publisher=Variety |date=2014-04-22 |accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref> It was banned by Pakistan's [[Central Board of Film Censors]] for depicting suicide bombers.<ref name="Mahmood 2015">{{cite web | last=Mahmood | first=Rafay | title=Bangistan gets a 'complete ban' by central censor board | website=The Express Tribune | date=6 August 2015 | url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/933432/bangistan-gets-a-complete-ban-by-central-censor-board/ | access-date=11 August 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810011937/http://tribune.com.pk/story/933432/bangistan-gets-a-complete-ban-by-central-censor-board/ | archive-date=10 August 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
The story is set in a fictitious country: Bangistan, which is, as its name suggests, a country with a lot of terrorist attacks.
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]] in Bangistan who works at a call center. One day he quits his job as he can no longer tolerate the humiliation from customers, and visits a local Muslim community. However, the leader of the community brainwashes him and persuade him to conduct terrorist attack at World Religious Conference in Poland, by convincing him that he will go to heaven if he dies in a suicide bomb blast. To cover his identity and his relationship with the leader, Hafeez uses a fake identity to enter Poland—a Hindu named Ishwarchand Sharma.
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 who shows a lot of respect to his god Guruji and attacks anyone who insults his beloved god. For political reasons, Guruji asks Praveen to conduct terrorist attack at the World Religious Conference in Poland, the same event that Hafeez is going to conduct blast at. To cover his identity and relationship with Guruji, Praveen also uses a fake identity to enter Poland—a Muslim named Allah Rakha Khan.
Praveen Chaturvedi is a Hindu ''[[Sevā|kar sevak]]'' who shows a lot of respect to [[Godman (India)|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.


Praveen and Hafeez meet at the airport when entering Poland, and later happen to live in the same hotel, so they befriend each other. When they go to a bar, they meet an Indian girl Rosie and both fall in love with her.
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.


Hafeez goes to a Polish arm dealer and buys bombs from him, while Praveen buys bombs from a Chinese dealer. They both assemble bombs in their respective hotels rooms. Praveen accidentally sees Hafeez's bomb and gets to know his intention, and believes Hafeez is from his own team, so he reveals his intention to Hafeez too. They work together to make the terrorist attack plan. In the process, they begin to realize their bosses brainwashed and used them, but they did not give up their plans.
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.


They break up a fight with each other after they reveal real identity to each other—Ishwarchand Sharma, a disguised Hindu, is actually a Muslim, while Allah Rakha Khan, a disguised Muslim, is actually a Hindu. They get angry after knowing each other is from a hostile religion and pretended to be a friend. During their fight, they accidentally set off the bomb, causing a huge blast in the hotel, and they both get injured and arrested for that.
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: "Useless bomb, must be Chinese" – a claim proven true.
 
Learning their arrest from news, both their bosses decide to go to Poland to conduct the attack by their own. Hafeez's boss sends a killer to kill Hafeez in the hospital, making Hafeez totally realize he was used. Police saves Hafeez from the killer and transfers him and Praveen to jail. On their way to jail, they escape from police. Hafeez decides to stop his boss from bombing the Conference and save lives. He also tries to persuade Praveen to abolish his plan and save lives too. Praveen pretends to have agreed, but is actually still in contact with Guruji to conduct the attack.
 
At the Conference, Hafeez catches Praveen red handed when the latter is tying bombs around his body. They breaks up a fight again and Hafeez successfully persuades Praveen to abolish his plan for real. Another bomber sent by Hafeez's boss is tries to bomb the crowd at the event, but is stopped and taken down by Hafeez. Hafeez takes his bomb. However, the crowd did not see Hfaeez taking bomb from him but only see Hafeez has bomb in hand. They think Hafeez is a terrorist and going to making a blast. They begin to panic, and police arrive to arrest Hafeez.
 
In the chaos, the bomber takes the bomb back from Hafeez, Hafeez and Praveen fight with him to get the bomb back. The bomber sets off the bomb; Hafeez and Praveen sacrifice themselves by holding the bomb and breaking out the window and jumping from the building. However, they survived the blast as it was not powerful enough to kill them. The Polish arm dealer saw the scene from TV and laughs out: Must be a Chinese bomb. He is right.


==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Ritesh Deshmukh]] as Hafeez Bin Ali/Ishwarchand Sharma
*[[Ritesh Deshmukh]] as Hafeez bin Ali/Ishwarchand Sharma
*[[Pulkit Samrat]] as Praveen Chaturvedi/Allah Rakha Khan
*[[Pulkit Samrat]] as Praveen Chaturvedi/Allah Rakha Khan
*[[Jacqueline Fernandez]] as Rosie  
*[[Jacqueline Fernandez]] as Rosie  
*[[Kumud Mishra]] as Guru/Abba
*[[Kumud Mishra]] as Guruji
*[[Chandan Roy Sanyal]] as Tamim Iqbal
*[[Chandan Roy Sanyal]] as Tamim Iqbal
*[[Arya Babbar]] as Zulfi
*[[Arya Babbar]] as Zulfi
*[[Tomasz Karolak]] as Peter Jackson
*[[Tom Alter]] as the Imam
*[[Tom Alter]] as the Imam
*Zachary Coffin as Stanislav the Polish Cop<ref name="YouTube - Bangistan">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgY8ln0HxxM|title='Bangistan' movie - Comic Police Scene with Ritesh Deshmukh, Megh Pant & Zachary Coffin|publisher=YouTube.com|accessdate=2017-08-02}}</ref>
*[[Tomasz Karolak]] as Wilhelm
*[[Saharsh Kumar Shukla]]
*[[:pl:Janusz Chabior|Janusz Chabior]] as Bobbitsky
*[[:pl:Jacek Lenartowicz (aktor)|Jacek Lenartowicz]] as Mr. Polanski
*Zachary Coffin as Stanislav<ref name="YouTube - Bangistan">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgY8ln0HxxM|title='Bangistan' movie - Comic Police Scene with Ritesh Deshmukh, Megh Pant & Zachary Coffin|date=16 January 2017 |publisher=YouTube.com|accessdate=2017-08-02}}</ref>
*Saharsh Kumar Shukla as Kaaluram


==Soundtrack==
==Music==
The soundtrack of the album is composed by [[Ram Sampath]], and lyrics written by  
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.
Puneet Krishna. The Soundtrack Album of this film was released on July 11, 2015.
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== Marketing and release ==
The film was released on 7 August. Mike McCahill gave it three stars <ref>{{cite web |title=Bangistan review – always something to chuckle at in sly suicide-bomber comedy |date=8 August 2015 |website=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625080233/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/08/bangistan-review-suicide-bomber-comedy-bollywood |archive-date=25 June 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/08/bangistan-review-suicide-bomber-comedy-bollywood}}</ref> in The Guardian. Bangistan was released on 700 screens in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/Details/art_detail/missionimpossibleandbangistanfirstdaybusiness#.VcboBouUdyx|title=Mission Impossible And Bangistan First Day Business|publisher=Boxofficeindia.com|accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:2015 films]]
[[Category:2015 films]]
[[Category:2010s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:2015 Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2015 Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian satirical films]]
[[Category:Indian satirical films]]
[[Category:Indian black comedy films]]
[[Category:Indian black comedy films]]
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[[Category:2010s satirical films]]
[[Category:Films set in Poland]]
[[Category:Films set in Poland]]
[[Category:Films set in fictional countries]]
[[Category:Films about terrorism in Europe]]
[[Category:Films about terrorism in Europe]]
[[Category:Films about suicide]]
[[Category:Films about Islamic terrorism]]
[[Category:Film censorship in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Islamic comedy and humor]]
[[Category:Censored films]]
[[Category:Excel Entertainment films]]
[[Category:Films distributed by AA Films]]
[[Category:Films distributed by Eros International]]

Latest revision as of 14:54, 2 March 2026

Bangistan
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKaran Anshuman
Produced byRitesh Sidhwani
Farhan Akhtar
Written byPuneet Krishna
Sumit Purohit
Karan Anshuman
StarringRiteish Deshmukh
Pulkit Samrat
Jacqueline Fernandez
Arya Babbar
Tomasz Karolak
Chandan Roy Sanyal
Music byRam Sampath
CinematographySzymon Lenkowski
Production
company
Distributed byAA 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 terrorists from conflicting religions, plan to perform a suicide attack at a religious conference in Poland. However, a turn of events saw them change their minds.

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[edit | edit source]

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: "Useless bomb, must be Chinese" – a claim proven true.

Cast[edit | edit source]

Music[edit | edit source]

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 Basrur03:24
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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

  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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