''Kushti'' () is a 2010 Indian

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directed by

T. K. Rajeev Kumar Thazhathupurakkal Karunakara Panicker Rajeev Kumar (born 20 September 1961) is a National Award-winning Indian director of Malayalam films, from Trivandrum. He is the winner of five Kerala State Film Awards for Best Film, Director, Story Writer ...

. The film stars

Rajpal Yadav Rajpal Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian actor which works in Hindi, Punjabi Marathi, Telugu and one Gujarati and one Bengali and one avadhi, comedian and film maker known for his work in Indian Film industry. His breakthrough came in Ra ...

in the lead role, along with the

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wrestler

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(Dalip Singh Rana) making his

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debut. The film also stars Manoj Joshi,

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 ...

and

Sharat Saxena Sharat Saxena (born 17 August 1950) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films along with Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. He has acted in more than 250 Bollywood films. Saxena started his career in the early 1970s and has mainly played su ...

in supporting roles. The film is a remake of the 1985 Malayalam film '' Mutharamkunnu P. O.''

Plot

The film ''Kushti'' is the story of a small village in Northern India where wrestling is a popular sport and an important wrestling match is held every year. Every year rivals Avtar Singh and Jiten Singh try to beat each other in the wrestling match and gain the trusteeship of the village. Chander plays the role of a village simpleton and a post-master. It filled with misunderstandings and misconceptions, of hidden identities and secret love-affairs and the outcome is simply hilarious. The movie begins to take a turn when a certain someone delivers a secret package in the wrong hands. Especially someone, who is bound to take advantage and manipulate the real owner of the package. Avtar Singh has a young and a beautiful daughter named Laadli, with who Chander is madly in love. To get her father's approval for their marriage he was to first prove his prowess by wrestling with the 7 and half feet tall "Rama Krishna". The condition set by Avtar Singh is that Chander has to defeat "Khali" in the wrestling match

Cast

as Chander *

Dalip Singh Rana Dalip Singh Rana (born 27 August 1972) is an Indian professional wrestling, professional wrestler and professional wrestling promotion, wrestling promoter better known by his ring name The Great Khali. He is best known for his tenure in WWE ...

as Himself *

Nargis Bagheri Nargis Bagheri is an Indian actress and singer who acted in Bollywood and Kollywood films and sang for a Bollywood film. Biography Bagheri hails from Pune. ''Garam Masala'' was her debut film which was released in 2005. Her Kollywood film ''Ni ...

as Laadli *

as Avtar Singh *

Asrani Govardhan Asrani (born 1 January 1940), popularly known simply as Asrani, is an Indian actor and director whose Bollywood career has spanned five decades. He has acted in over 350 Hindi films. Asrani has played the lead roles, character roles, ...

as Janak Lal * Manoj Joshi as Kripashankar *

as Jiten Singh *

Jagadeesh P. V. Jagadish Kumar (born 12 June 1955) known mononymously as Jagadish, is an Indian actor, screenwriter, television presenter and former politician. He has starred in over 375 Malayalam films and 2 Hindi films. He is best known for his comi ...

as Puncher Pappu *

Razak Khan Abdur Razzak Khan (28 March 1951 – 1 June 2016) was an Indian actor who has worked in Bollywood films. Khan was noted for supporting and comic roles. He was known for his comic role of Manikchand in the 1999 Abbas–Mustan directed film '' Ba ...

as Chander's friend *

Ramesh Pisharody T. V. Ramesh (born 1 October 1983), professionally credited as Ramesh Pisharody, is an Indian stand-up comedian, impressionist, television presenter, actor and film director. He works in Malayalam television shows, stage, and cinema. Early l ...

as Sinterklaas *

Asif Basra Asif Basra (27 July 196712 November 2020) was an Indian actor who worked in Bollywood films and TV serials. He is best known to Western audiences for his role in '' Outsourced''. He also appeared in many other films. Basra died of suicide by h ...

as Duliya ram (Post Master)

Soundtrack

The music of ''Kushti'' is composed by

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, Tauseef Akhtar, AD Boyz and Hriju Roy. The lyrics were done by Sameer. The movie has 5 original songs.

Critical reception

''Kushti'' received mixed reviews, but mostly negative. The total gross came up to about 3.5/5 score. The song "''Rang Rasiya''" was praised a lot, which helped the film from going down even lower in business.

References

External links

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Kushti (Full Profile @ BollywoodHungama)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kushti (film) 2010 films 2010s Hindi-language films Indian sports comedy films Films scored by Sharreth Films scored by Srinivas 2010s sports comedy films Hindi remakes of Malayalam films Sport wrestling films Films directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar 2010 comedy films