''Anna: Kisan Baburao Hazare'' is an Indian biographical film, directed and written by Shashank Udapurkar. It is based on the life of Indian social activist Anna Hazare. Shashank Udapurkar, director of the film, himself would be playing the titular character. The film also stars Tanishaa Mukerji,

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, Ankit (Sourabh) Sharma in supporting roles. The film was released on 14 October 2016.

Cast

*Shashank Udapurkar as

Kisan Baburao Hazare Kisan Baburao "Anna" Hazare (; born 15 June 1937) is an Indian social activist who led movements to promote rural development, increase government transparency, and investigate and punish corruption in public life. In addition to organising an ...

* Tanishaa Mukerji as Shikha, journalist *Ankit Sharma as cameraman *

as village Sahukar *Narendra Jain *

as Appa *

as Ramya *Jayant Gadekar as Dinkar Rao *

as Col Sharat Saxena *

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*Mazhar Khan *Baldev Trehan *Princy Lakra *Tukaram Bidkar *Gopal Singh Kochar *Nana Deshmukh *Durgesh Korade *Chaitanya Deshmukh *Chandrakant Karale

Production

Development

Movie director Shashank Udapurkar, addressed the media that he has received a formal consent from Anna Hazare for making a biopic on the anti-corruption activist, in April 2014.

Promotion

Anna Hazare himself promoted his biopic on ''

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''.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 6118134 2016 biographical drama films Indian biographical drama films Drama films based on actual events 2016 drama films Columbia Pictures films Sony Pictures films Sony Pictures Networks India films