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Sangharsh

  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 7m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
6.1K
YOUR RATING
Preity G Zinta and Akshay Kumar in Sangharsh (1999)
Psychological ThrillerSerial KillerActionCrimeDramaHorrorThriller

A rookie CBI officer must enlist the help of an incarcerated criminal in order to catch a serial child killer, who has recently escaped police custody.A rookie CBI officer must enlist the help of an incarcerated criminal in order to catch a serial child killer, who has recently escaped police custody.A rookie CBI officer must enlist the help of an incarcerated criminal in order to catch a serial child killer, who has recently escaped police custody.

  • Director
    • Tanuja Chandra
  • Writers
    • Mahesh Bhatt
    • Girish Dhamija
    • Thomas Harris
  • Stars
    • Preity G Zinta
    • Akshay Kumar
    • Ashutosh Rana
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    6.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tanuja Chandra
    • Writers
      • Mahesh Bhatt
      • Girish Dhamija
      • Thomas Harris
    • Stars
      • Preity G Zinta
      • Akshay Kumar
      • Ashutosh Rana
    • 18User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Preity G Zinta
    Preity G Zinta
    • CBI Officer Reet Oberoi
    • (as Preity Zinta)
    Akshay Kumar
    Akshay Kumar
    • Professor Aman Varma
    Ashutosh Rana
    Ashutosh Rana
    • Lajja Shankar Pandey
    Vishwajeet Pradhan
    Vishwajeet Pradhan
    • CBI Head
    Aman Verma
    Aman Verma
    • Amit
    Madan Jain
    Madan Jain
    • Police Officer
    Alia Bhatt
    Alia Bhatt
    • Young Reet
    Ninad Kamat
    Ninad Kamat
    • Abbu
    Abhay Chopra
    S.M. Zaheer
    • Kidnapped Boy's Father
    Arif Zakaria
    Arif Zakaria
    • Special Appearance
    Yash Tonk
    Yash Tonk
    • Special Appearance
    Brij Bhushan Sahni
    • Home Minister
    Saurabh Dubey
    Saurabh Dubey
    • Reet's Father
    Rajesh Prasher
      Krishna Bhatt
      Krishna Bhatt
      • Rama Kutty
      Sanjeeva Vatsa
      • Reet's Grandmother
      Dinesh Chaturvedi
      • Director
        • Tanuja Chandra
      • Writers
        • Mahesh Bhatt
        • Girish Dhamija
        • Thomas Harris
      • All cast & crew
      • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

      User reviews18

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      david-bond-2

      Lambs that bleat

      This is actually a rather risible remake of Demme's Silence of the Lambs (1991). Although the prison scenes are very similar and there are some suitably grisly scenes of violence, it does not adhere particularly closely to the model. It is not easy, for instance, to imagine Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster dancing a duet as Ashkay Kumar and Preity Zinta do, he dressed as Zorro and she in a pretty white frock - under the noses of the police they are supposedly hiding from!! This makes the film, in many ways quite a slick professional production, sound rather more awful than it is, but even on a charitable judgement it is pretty bad....
      6amitmcavoy

      "Ashutosh Rana" A Spine chilling performer

      This film is somewhat a copy of "Silence of the Lamb" which was an excellent movie. But I would consider 'Sangharsh' to be an average movie. There reason it did not go to become a successful, because of few reasons. The Direction is not as good as it should be, the scripting is not as it should be, the backdrop and the subject is good, but there was no reason to copy it, they could have made a whole new script for the movie. Only good thing about this film is the two songs which became a massive hit and brought people into theater and the new guy "Ashutosh Rana", the villain of the movie whose spine chilling performance, made this movie worth to watch.
      9devrajs

      Best of movie 1999

      First of all concept & story of movie is awesome For acting of starcast superb specially asutosh rana is nailed it in role of villian , then come to akshay very good as a professor ,preity doing very well and also an cute alia.
      7idas-29860

      Good effort.

      Sangharsh is adaptation of hollywood movie the silence of the lambs. Although sangharsh is good but it could not touch the level of the Hollywood movie. Script is good but in each scene more depth is needed. Characters needed more depth. Music and direction are good. Performances are fine. Akshay kumar excels in his role (the indianized version of Anthony Hopkins). The jail conversation scene between akshay kumar and preity zinta is worth watching. Ashutosh rana as lajja shankar is good but it should have been a more realistic villain. Script writer should have made lajja more real. Ted levine in silence of the lambs was realistic villain.
      10searchiteshu

      excellent ideas..........

      it is one of those different movies which i would prefer to see again..........and i think it is one of those best roles Akshay Kumar did he never gets these kind of roles and he really carry out his character... it is a very underrated movie........Preity Zinta has done fabulous job.. it is challenging for any actress to do these roles but she did and proved everyone that she can be versatile like those other actresses and Ashutosh Rana as best in a villain.....he made it so easy to look as a monster in a movie... this movie has a lot of pace in itself... i will hats off to a female director........making such a exhilarating movie..........remember to watch........i would positively give 10 out of 10...........

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      • Trivia
        Alia Bhatt appeared as the small Reet Oberoi.
      • Connections
        References Rocky (1976)

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      • Release date
        • September 3, 1999 (India)
      • Country of origin
        • India
      • Language
        • Hindi
      • Also known as
        • Struggle
      • Filming locations
        • Delhi, India
      • Production company
        • NH Studioz
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      • Runtime
        • 2h 7m(127 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Dolby Digital
        • DTS

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