''Baabarr'' ( hi, बाबर) is a 2009 gangster

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film directed by

Ashu Trikha Ashu Trikha is an Indian film director and producer of Bollywood. He started his career with Arjun Rampal movie ''Deewaanapan'' which was produced by Vashu Bhagnani's. ''Sheesha (2005 film), Sheesha'' in 2005, followed by Mithun Chakraborty movi ...

. The film stars

Sohum Shah Sohum Shah is an India actor, producer, and entrepreneur who works in Hindi films. He made his firstand screen appearance in 2009 with the film '' Baabarr'', where he played the antagonist and in 2012 with the National Award-winning film ''Sh ...

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...

and

Urvashi Sharma Urvashi Sharma (born 13 October 1984), also known as Raina Joshi, is an Indian Bollywood actress and model, born in Delhi. Personal life She married in February 2012. She changed her name to Raina Joshi. On 21 January 2014, she gave birth ...

Cast

as Baabarr Qureshi *

Mahesh Chandra Deva Mahesh may refer to: * A title of Shiva, a Hindu deity * Mahesh (name), personal name * Mahesh, Serampore Mahesh is a residential area and historical part of the city of Serampore, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the site of a 14th-ce ...

as tabrez gang *

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as Child Babbarr Qureshi *

as Ziya *

Mukesh Tiwari Mukesh Tiwari (born 24 August 1969) is an Indian actor, who has worked predominantly in Bollywood. and few Tamil films. He is known for playing negative and comic side roles. He entered the film industry in the year 1998 with the movie '' China ...

as Nawaz *

Govind Namdeo Govind Namdev (born 3 September 1954) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. Namdev made his debut as a corrupt cop in David Dhawan's '' Shola Aur Shabnam'' (1992). He has acted in numerous movies, often as a villain. He is an alumnus o ...

as Bhaiyaa Jee *

Om Puri Om Prakash Puri (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as Bengali, Kannada,English, Punjabi and one Telugu film, as well as independent and art films and also starred ...

as Daroga Chaturvedi *

Tinu Anand Tinu Anand (born Virender Raj Anand, 12 October 1945) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer in Hindi cinema and a few Telugu and Tamil films. Early life He is the son of veteran writer Inder Raj Anand, brother of producer Bittu ...

as Mamu *

Sushant Singh Sushant Singh (born 9 March 1972) is an Indian character actor, television actor, author and Television presenter, presenter known for his works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and Telugu cinema. He made his screen debut in 1998 with Ram Gopal V ...

as Tabrez *Kashish as Aafreen *

Shakti Kapoor Shakti Kapoor (born Sunil Kapoor; 3 September 1952) is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Bollywood films. Known for his villainous and comic roles in Hindi films, he has featured in over 600 films. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor teame ...

as Sarfaraaz * Rakesh Deewana as Nanha *

as tabrez gang

Music

#"O Maula" -

Anand Raj Anand Anand Raaj Anand is an Indian composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry. He was nominated for the Best Music Director Filmfare Award for ''Kaante'' (2003). Early life Anand Raj was born on 8 November 1961 in Delhi in ...

#""Maula Ye Bataa (unplugged) -

#Pagal Manwa" - Raka Mukherjee #"Baabarr" -

Sukhwinder Singh Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs. He is famous internationally for singing " Jai Ho" from the film ''Slumdog Millionaire'' which won an Academy Awa ...

#"Baaje Raat Ke Bara" -

Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Born in Delhi, she began performing in local gatherings at the age of 5 and made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film ''Shastra'' (1996). During the ye ...

Legal issues

A PIL was filed in the

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seeking a ban on ''Baabarr'' for alleged negative portrayal of Muslims. The petitioner also charged that characters in the film were based on

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and

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Critical reception

''Baabarr'' is not much liked by the critics.

Taran Adarsh Taran Adarsh (born 13 June 1965) is an Indian film critic and trade analyst. He is best known for giving trade figures and box office updates on social media. Career Taran Adarsh started his journalism career at the age of 15 with ''Trade Gui ...

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gave 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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gave 2.5 out of 5 stars & stated that "The film is not much impressive as expected, ''director

'' & ''writer Ikram Akhtar'' did a well job but the thing making it unimpressive is that the ''director'' gets only the mood right, not the scenes, though the reviewer praised the performance of

by saying that it is

as the oily, wily and crooked cop, who steals the show". Martin D'Souza of Bollywood Trade News Network gave it 1 out of 5 stars & said by calling the film a repetition that "the film is of old story with new cast & crew, Martin specially criticises the decision of making film with lead role of ''Soham Shah''"

Box office

The film was not good at the box office as it hardly netted an amount of at the end of its first week after release & getting through the cinemas across India ''Baabarr'' at last managed to gross & determined a ''Flop''. ''Baabarr'' grossed £2,748 on 18 Sep 2009 & £1,439 on 11 Sep 2009 according to

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Awards

Recently the cast and crew of the film visited

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and they have been honoured with the life membership of International Film And Television Club.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1508950 2009 films 2000s Hindi-language films Films scored by Anand Raj Anand Films directed by Ashu Trikha Indian gangster films