Bangistan
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. 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. It was banned by Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors for depicting suicide bombers.
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: "Useless bomb, must be Chinese" – a claim proven true.
Cast
- Ritesh Deshmukh as Hafeez bin Ali/Ishwarchand Sharma
- Pulkit Samrat as Praveen Chaturvedi/Allah Rakha Khan
- Jacqueline Fernandez as Rosie
- Kumud Mishra as Guruji
- Chandan Roy Sanyal as Tamim Iqbal
- Arya Babbar as Zulfi
- Tom Alter as the Imam
- Tomasz Karolak as Wilhelm
- Janusz Chabior as Bobbitsky
- Jacek Lenartowicz as Mr. Polanski
- Zachary Coffin as Stanislav
- Saharsh Kumar Shukla as Kaaluram
Music
Puneet Krishna. The Soundtrack Album of this film was released on July 11, 2015.