''Allah Ke Banday'' () is a 2010 Indian
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
-language
crime drama
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film produced by
Ravi Walia
Ravi Walia (born April 7, 1973 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian figure skating coach and former competitor. He is the 1995 Canadian national bronze medallist and the 1993 Canadian national junior champion, representing the Kerri ...
and directed by Faruk Kabir.
Plot
Allah Ke Banday tells the tale of two 12-year-old boys (Vijay and Yakub) who grow up in the slums of India. Wanting to make a name for themselves in the mafia world, they start delivering drugs. Their friend (
Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain ( ur, , link=no) is the name of:
* Zakir Husain (politician), an Indian politician and former president of India
* Zakir Hussain (actor), Bollywood actor
* Zakir Hussain (field hockey) (1934–2019), Pakistani field hockey player
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) dresses as a transgender, in an act where they loot people. Things go wrong when they are sent to a juvenile reformatory after being wrongly convicted for a murder. They learn life is much tougher in the reformatory than the world they came from. They are tortured by the warden and senior inmates. But instead of reforming they develop a more sinister plan in their quest for ultimate power.
Cast
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Sharman Joshi
Sharman Joshi (born 28 April 1979) is an Indian actor and television presenter who predominantly works in Hindi movies, known for his roles in films like ''Rang De Basanti'' (2006), '' Golmaal'' (2006), '' Dhol'' (2007) and ''3 Idiots'' (2009). ...
as Vijay Kamble
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Faruk Kabir as Yakub
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Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallel cinema. He has also starred in international productions. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare A ...
as Warden
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Atul Kulkarni
Atul Kulkarni (born 10 September 1965) is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, English, Odia and Telugu language films. Kulkarni won the National Award for the Best Supporting Actor ...
as Ashwani
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Anjana Sukhani
Anjana Sukhani (born 10 December 1978) is an Indian actress and model, who predominantly appears in Hindi and a few Telugu films and one Kannada films.
Early life
Anjana was born on 10 December 1978 in Jaipur to Preethi and Om Sukhani and has ...
as Sandhya
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Rukhsar Rehman
Rukhsar Rehman (born 29 October 1975) is an Indian film & television actress and model in Bollywood. Rehman made her film debut in 1992 at the age of 17 with a lead role in Deepak Anand's ''Yaad Rakhegi Duniya'' opposite Aditya Pancholi and als ...
as Nirmala
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Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain ( ur, , link=no) is the name of:
* Zakir Husain (politician), an Indian politician and former president of India
* Zakir Hussain (actor), Bollywood actor
* Zakir Hussain (field hockey) (1934–2019), Pakistani field hockey player
* ...
as Ramesh
*Varun Bhagwat
*Saksham Kulkarni as Vitthal
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Ajaz Khan
Ajaz Khan is an Indian actor. He has starred in movies such as ''Rakta Charitra'' and ''Allah Ke Banday'' and acted in several television daily soaps including '' Rahe Tera Aashirwaad'' and ''Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki''. In 2013, Khan p ...
as Nana chauhan
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Suhasini Mulay
Suhasini Mulay (born 20 November 1950) is an Indian actress in Assamese, Bollywood and Marathi films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film ''Hu Tu Tu''.
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as Mother
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Vikram Gokhale
Vikram Gokhale (14 November 1945 – 26 November 2022) was an Indian film, television and stage actor, noted for his roles in Marathi theatre, Hindi films and television. He was the son of the Veteran Marathi theater and film actor, Chandrakant ...
as Sheryaar
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Madan Deodhar
Madan Deodhar is an Indian actor prominently featuring in Marathi films.
Career
Deodhar started his acting career as a child actor in the Hindi film ''Mahek'' (2007), a coming-of-age film directed by Kranti Kanade. The film won Best Feature Fil ...
as Vijay Kamble (childhood)
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Asif khan as don
Soundtrack
Accolades
References
Further reading
* http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/503075
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India Express
External links
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''Allah Ke Banday''at
NDTV
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2010 films
Indian crime drama films
2010s Hindi-language films
2010 directorial debut films
Hindi-language crime films
Films scored by Chirantan Bhatt
Films scored by Kailash Kher
Films scored by Ishq Bector
Films set in prison
Indian gangster films
Films about organised crime in India
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