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Based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.

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Cast

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Havildar Ishar Singh
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Jiwani
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Naik Lal Singh
Vansh Bhardwaj ...
Lance Naik Chanda Singh
Surmeet Basra ...
Gurmukh Singh (as Sumeet Basran)
Ajit Singh ...
Nand Singh
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Buta Singh
Harwinder Singh Aujla ...
Dava Singh
Rakesh Sharma ...
Bhola Singh
Adhrit Sharma ...
Uttam Singh
Vivek Saini ...
Jiwan Singh
Harbhagwan Singh ...
Bhagwan Singh
Rajdeep Singh Dhaliwal ...
Ram Singh
Gurpreet Toti
Harry Brar ...
Sundar Singh
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Naravan Singh
Vikram Chouhan ...
Hira Singh
Harman Jhandi ...
Bhagwan Singh
Pritbal Pali ...
Gurvukh Singh
Rimple Dhindsa ...
Sepoy Ram Singh
Gagneet Singh Makhan ...
Jiwan Singh (2)
Harmanpreet Singh ...
Jiwan Jalandhari
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Daao
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Gilab Singh
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Lt. Lawrence
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Maj. Des Voeux (as R. Bhakti Klein)
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John Haughton
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Gulwarien
Rakesh Chaturvedi Om ...
Saidullah
Mir Sarwar ...
Khan Masud
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Gul Badshah Khan
Dhruv Nagarkar ...
Young Pathan Boy
Priyanka Rajpal ...
Woman in Burqa
Yashir Bashir ...
Tea Shop Owner
Bashir Lone ...
Shop Owner
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Lt Munn
Asha Joshi ...
Old Pathan Woman
Simarjeet Singh Thind ...
Lockhardt Lamp Operator
Ravinder Pawar ...
Attar Singh (creditOnly)
Ravindar Singh Powar ...
Attar Singh
Surinder ...
Huge Pathan
Shaikh Sameer Usman ...
Gulwarien's Husband
Bhawani Muzamil ...
Sniper
Madhusagar ...
Ishar's Mother
Ram Awana ...
Gulwarien Beheader
Hariom Kalra ...
Afgaan Tribal Chief
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Jiwani's Mother (as Kulbeer Badarson)
Mahinder Pal Singh ...
Jiwani's Father
Mushtaq Kak ...
Amir
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Nurse Teresa
Mandeep Deepa ...
Mandy
Harman Dhillon
Abhay S. Dutta ...
Sikh regiment
Jashanpreet ...
Jassa
Hamza Khan ...
(voice) (as Ahmad ks Hussan)
Sumit Khanna ...
Gurmukh Singh
Manbir
Ajit Mehla
Sarabjit Singh Phambra
Harpreet Pindi ...
Happa
Ahmed Rehman ...
(voice)
Sahilpreet ...
Sajjan
Mahinder Shera ...
pariniti's father
Chobber Sidhu ...
Gaggi
Jaspreet Sidhwan ...
Jassar
Deependra Singh ...
Sarbjeet
Meharbaan Singh ...
Meharban singh as a Dilbag Singh
Navyodh Singh ...
Hakkam Singh
Sukhranjan ...
Sukha
Krishan Kumar Suryavanshi
Jai Singh Verma ...
Afghan Boarder
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Body double (uncredited)
Murray Kerr ...
(uncredited)

Directed by

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Anurag Singh ... (directed by)

Written by

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Girish Kohli ... (writer)
 
Anurag Singh ... (written by)

Produced by

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Gaurav Bose ... associate producer
Amar Butala ... co-producer
Sumit Chawla ... executive producer
Karan Johar ... producer
Hetvi Karia ... producer
Sunir Kheterpal ... producer
Akshay Kumar ... producer
Alok Kumar ... co-producer
Zafar Mehdi ... co-producer
Apoorva Mehta ... producer
Ajay Sharma ... line producer (as Ajay Kumar Sharma)
Somesh Shivraj ... line producer
Navdeep Singh Sidhu ... producer
Navmeet Singh ... line producer
Kumar Surender ... executive producer

Music by

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Arko Pravo Mukherjee

Cinematography by

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Anshul Chobey

Editing by

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Akshay Maru ... (Associate Editor)
Manish More
Deep Tachak ... behind the scenes editor

Editorial Department

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Justin Belly ... conformist: editor
Tushar Desai ... colorist
Chetan Motiwaras ... chief assistant editor / on location editor
Mohammed Mujammil ... on-line editor
Gaurav Rai ... assistant editor
Nahush Sardesai ... assistant colorist
Deep Tachak ... additional editor: behind the scenes

Casting By

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Himalaya Agrawal
Jogi Mallang ... (casting director of this film) (as Jogi)

Production Design by

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Subrata Chakraborty
Amit Ray

Art Direction by

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Avijit Ghosh
Ashish Maity ... (art direction)

Costume Design by

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Sheetal Sharma

Makeup Department

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Shrikant Desai ... makeup designer
Deepak Dhamapurkar ... makeup artist
Satish Jaiswar ... makeup artist
Narendra Jethwa ... makeup artist
Abhishek Pawar ... assistant makeup artist
Meghana Sakat ... assistant makeup artist

Production Management

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Dabhi Bharatsinh Bachuji ... head of production
Rahul Dubey ... production manager
Aditya Jayesh Gandhi ... production manager (as Aditya Gandhi)
Vinay Jogi ... Production Manager
Viraj Kesarkar ... production accountant
Punit Kumar ... unit production manager
Sengupta Lipi ... post-production supervisor
Raval Mahendrakumar ... production manager
James Male ... line producer: Pune
Tejas Merchant ... production controller
Manasee Prabhuajgaonkar ... production team
Manthan Prajapati ... post-production supervisor
Askari Qureshi ... post producer
Nilesh Rathi ... production manager
Parikshit Salvi ... post-production supervisor
Virender Sandhu ... assistant production manager
Varil Shah ... production manager
Prasen Sharrma ... production manager (as Prasen Sharma)
Irshad Shelat ... production manager
Nilesh Shinde ... production accountant
Rajeev Shrivastava ... production manager
Aattish Siingh ... post-production supervisor (as Aatish Singh)
Amandeep Singh ... production controller
Amarpreet Singh ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Abhijeet Agnihotri ... assistant director
Harshit Bhatia ... first assistant director
Maanav Bhinder ... director's assistant
Ketan Kakkar ... assistant director
Yogesh Kumar ... assistant director
Kavya Pande ... second second assistant director
Alan Prakash ... assistant director
Abhijeet Raj ... assistant director
Ambica Rana ... second assistant director
Eeshaan Roy ... third assistant director
Alyjah Sheikh ... third assistant director

Art Department

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Ashok Das ... assistant art director
Vinayak Joshi ... assistant art director
Mukul Saraogi ... photographer
Nilesh Vishwakarma ... assistant art director

Sound Department

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Mayank Asthana ... sound mixer: second unit
Sanjay Chaturvedi ... production sound mixer
Sajjan Choudhary ... foley artist
Yash Darji ... sound editor
Pratik Goswami ... sound editor
Yogesh Gurav ... boom operator
Justin Jose ... atmos mixer / re-recording mixer
Parikshit Lalwani ... sound
Sarath Mohan ... sound editor
Shijil p Nair ... associate re recording mixer (as Shijil Nair) / atmos mixer (as Shijil Nair)
Dipesh Patel ... A.D.R. Engineer
Praveen Paul ... sound effects editor
Nimish Pilankar ... sound editor
Karnail Singh ... foley supervisor
Omkar Tamhan ... Dolby Atmos Mastering Engineer
Joseph Thomas ... assistant re recording mixer
Varun Visoi ... foley recording & editor

Special Effects by

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Lallan Gupta ... special effects
Manish Mahendra Tyagi ... special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by

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Abhilash Sharma ... compositor
Varun Aggarwal ... compositor
Arth-Vasavada ... fx artist
Raghuwanshi. Arun Singh ... digital compositor: @Fluiid Mask Studio
Rajesh Chandrakant Bane ... concept artist: digital matte painter
Praful Bargal ... compositor: visual effects / digital compositor: visual effects
Rajgor Bhakti ... visual effects artist
Gnyanesh Bhandare ... Texturing artist
Sandeep Bhate ... visual effects
Deepak Bhatia ... Visual Effects Line Producer: Redchillies.vfx
Kuldeep Bhayre ... compositor
Ketan Murlidhar Bhoir ... Matchmove Associate Team Lead: red chillies vfx
Bhuvan ... Sr Compositor
Swapnil Prakash Borhade ... compositor
Dinesh Chandel ... roto artist
Sayan Chattopadhyay ... VFX Compositor
Yogesh Chhag ... Business Head VFX / business head: VFX
Amit Das ... roto artist
Varadraj Deorukhkar ... visual effects artist: compositor
Piyush Dodia ... rotoscope artist
Bhavesh Kailashnath Dubey ... compositor
Dhananjay Gaikwad ... Creative art director: Fluiidmask Studios pvt.ltd
Hardik Gajjar ... visual effects supervisor
Robin Gala ... visual effects supervisor: Vertex Volt
Mohit Garg ... compositor
Shobhit Garg ... Senior compositor: Red chillies vfx
Utkarsh Gaurav ... fx td
Dhanashree Shivaji Ghag ... compositor
Avinash Gharule ... compositor: visual effects
Gaurav Ghatge ... prep artist
Deeptanshu Ghosh ... concept artist: digital matte painter
Anish Godbole ... lead compositor
Aditya Milind Govilkar ... compositor
Nilesh Jokhan Gupta ... Matchmove Lead
Akhilesh Jain ... visual effects supervisor
Kapil C. Kalal ... compositor: visual effects
Apurba Kalita ... fx artist: Redchillies.vfx
Navin Kamal ... rigger
Abhishek Kamat ... visual effects coordinator
Siddhesh Kemaye ... visual effects artist
Keyurvithlani ... visual effects artist
Sanjay Khandelwal ... Modeling Artist
Narendra Khobragade ... matte painting: Team Lead
Anuj Kumavat ... compositor
Gaurav Gangadhar Labhshetwar ... fx artist
Saurabh Lakshakar ... visual effects producer
Abhijeet Lamture ... CG Asset Creation Lead
Prashant Manhanta ... visual effects producer
Manas Manohar ... vfx production coordinator
Masod-Nasir ... Animation Associate Lead: Red Chillies VFX
Anil Kumar Maurya ... compositor
Himani Mehta ... roto artist
Vikash Mishra ... digital matte painter
Kaushal Mistry ... compositor (as Kaushal Pankaj Mistry)
Raj Mittal ... visual effects line producer: Famous Studios (as RajMittal)
Rajesh Moopanar ... visual effects coordinator
Nikhil Sunil More ... Roto artist: visual effects
Ravi Motwani ... lighting artist
Dinesh Nagda ... lead compositor: Vertex volt
Shamli Naik ... visual effects artist
Truptesh Naik ... compositor
Subhakant Nayak ... Compositor: Fluiidmask Studios pvt ltd.
Palash Pal ... digital compositor
Rohit Pandey ... compositor
Keshav Parab ... vfx compositor : Redchillies VFX
Mohnish Parwani ... team lead compositing: RedChillies.VFX
Vishal Pasi ... visual effects
Devesh Patel ... modeling & texturing artist
Sarin Patel ... Lighting Artist
Vishal Pawar ... concept artist / concept artist: digital matte painter
Vitthal Pawar ... concept artist: digital matte painter
Vitthal Navnath Pawar ... digital matte painter: visual effects
Nilesh Posnak ... cg supervisor
Om Prakash Rai ... Matchmove Supervisor
Omprakash Rai ... Matchmove Lead
Nikhil Rane ... visual effects
Rohit Ranjan ... visual effects producer
Chetan Rathod ... Team Lead VFX
Viresh Raut ... fx supervisor
Gaurav Deep Sahani ... render wrangler
Arya Saini ... compositor: visual effects
Navin Saran ... Sr. Line Producer
Arnab Sarkar ... digital compositor
Parag Neelkanth Satelkar ... digital compositor
Chandrika Kumar Saw ... compositor
Umesh Sawant ... Lighting Artist
Hasnain Shaikh ... Roto artist
Ranjan Sharma ... compositor
Pradnyawant Shivsharan ... compositor
Suraj Avinashrao Shrikhande ... digital matte painter
Bhawani Singh ... compositor
Krishna Kumar Singh ... Roto artist
Vaishnavi Soni ... compositor
Tushar Sonker ... Senior Production Coordinator
Kailas Tendulkar ... compositor
Viral Thakkar ... visual effects director
Devendra Thakur ... compositing supervisor
Prashant Thakur ... visual effects supervisor
Bhabendra Timsina ... compositor
Pawan Singh Tomar ... roto artist
Kamal Sudhakar Uppu ... visual effects coordinator
Aman Vashishtha ... Associate Line Producer
Girish Verma ... motion graphics
Parikh Vishal ... lighting and lookdev supervisor
Milind Waghmare ... concept artist: digital matte painter
Kaluram Whanamane ... VFX Compositer
Badal Yadav ... junior compositor
Keitan Yadav ... visual effects producer
Somak Mukherjee ... cg supervisor (uncredited)
Ronak Sanghadia ... vfx supervisor: redchillies.vfx (uncredited)

Stunts

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Rais Abid Baluch ... assistant stunt coordinator
Abhishek Dwivedi ... stunts
Rahul Dwivedi ... stunt double
Khan Firoz ... Action director assistant
Arvind Gupta ... stunt performer
Mk Khan ... stunts
Anis Mirza ... stunt double
Adarsh Mishra ... For Akshay Kumar
Basid Noora ... stunt performer
Annappa Poojary ... stunt performer
Parvez Shaikh ... action director / stunt coordinator
SteadiSijy ... Action Previz Editor
Ashraf Stuntindia ... stunt coordinator
Asif Stuntindia ... stunt double: Fire shot / stunt performer
Riley Suter ... stunts
Lawrence Woodward ... action director

Camera and Electrical Department

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Gaikward Aatish ... gaffer
Manigandan Ashokan ... assistant camera
Stephen Asirvatham ... first assistant camera (as A. Stephen Raj)
Ravendra Singh Bhadauria ... still photographer
Imran Akbar Hasan Hushye ... gaffer
Mohamad gulam Hussain ... key grip
Iam_atishgaikwad ... gaffer
Imsajidshaikh ... gaffer
Jerin James ... gimbal operator
Tanmay Kant ... Digital Imaging Technician & Dailies Colorist
Sameer Kharatmal ... drone operator
Babu Mali ... grip: Best Boy
Dheeraj Mishra ... focus puller
Dipak Nayak ... camera operator
Sanjay Kumar Palai ... Jimmy jib oparetor
Abdul Rashid ... light boy
Pranav Raval ... Steadicam opertor
Sayyed Saddam ... steadicam Omega A R Operator: S S H Cinevision
Junaid Shaikh ... focus puller
Naseeruddin Shaikh ... key grip
Sajid Shaikh ... gaffer
Shaikh Shoeb ... steadicam operator
Chetan Singh ... digital imaging technician
Jaswant Singh ... first assistant camera
Suresh Yadav ... Camera attendant

Animation Department

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Yuvraj Singh Dodia ... animation lead
Viraj Gujarathi ... Senior Animator & Crowd Td
Ashish Rawat ... Animation/Roto-mation Artist
Tejas Wangikar ... animator (specific segments)

Casting Department

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Sagar Chugh ... casting assistant
Jai Aman Dev ... casting assistant
Richa Gupta ... casting assistant
Mamta Malik ... casting assistant
Raj Vaibhav Sanadhya ... casting assistant (creditOnly) / extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Tanvi Goel ... wardrobe supervisor
Akshita Jain ... 2nd assistant costume designer
Pradhumn Makwana ... assistant costume designer (as Pradhuman Makwana)
Deepika Pardeshi ... 1st assistant costume designer

Location Management

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Abhay S. Dutta ... location manager
Anubhav Rony Kaistha ... location manager (as Anubhav Kaistha)

Music Department

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Jazzy B. ... playback singer
Tanishk Bagchi ... lyricist
Meghdeep Bose ... associate music producer: score
Jake Charkey ... musician: cello
Azeem Dayani ... music supervisor
Kevin Roy George ... music producer
Jasbir Jassi ... playback singer
Kanwar Juneja ... lyricist
Ujjwal Kashyap ... music producer
Asees Kaur ... playback singer
Kevinroy ... music producer
Kumaar ... lyricist
Arpit Mehta ... music producer
Pritesh Mehta ... music producer
Manoj Muntashir ... lyricist
Anup Pathade ... musician
B. Praak ... playback singer
Parvatish Pradeep ... music producer
Akshay Raheja ... music producer (as Raheja Akshay)
Jasleen Royal ... playback singer
Aamir Shaikh ... song mixing & mastering engineer
Brijesh Shandilya ... playback singer
Arijit Singh ... playback singer
Sukhwinder Singh ... playback singer
Abin Thomas ... score producer

Script and Continuity Department

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Kunal Mehta ... script supervisor
Akshay Rane ... script supervisor

Additional Crew

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Jahan Singh Bakshi ... English subtitles
Ravendra Singh Bhadauria I ... Publicity Photographer
Aryan Bhasin ... social media manager
Anupam Dubey ... visual promotions
Vijay Ganguly ... choreographer
Alpa Golcha ... marketing
Sachin Suresh Gurav ... innovations
Siddharth Halbe ... Still Photographer
Kaur Harvinder ... chorioghraphar
Rahul Kapoor ... Apac Distribution Head
Sohail Kasmani ... digital marketing
Harsh Kumar ... production staff
Pankaj Kumar Mark ... production staff (as Pankaj Kumar)
Rahul Nanda ... Campaign Designer
Sanipt Palakkal ... promotional videos cinematographer
Pari Sankhala ... production assistant
Gurjeet Singh ... VFX Engineer
Vishal Singh ... Voice Artist
Vijay Sud ... international marketing and distribution: International Team
Hiten Umrania ... Film Distribution and Marketing
Abhishek Vaidya ... Promo Editor: Just Right Studioz Visual Promotions

Thanks

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Nitin Baid ... special thanks
Surmeet Maavi ... special thanks
Angry Rantman ... the producers wish to thank
Vansh Sadh ... thanks
Arham Surana ... digital producer

Production Companies

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Special Effects

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

This period war-drama showcases the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi. The plot focuses on Havildar Ishar Singh, who led a platoon of 21 Sikhs against an invading army of 10,000 Afghans to defend the North-West Frontier Province. The event is considered one of the greatest last-stands in history. Written by beingdhruvnanda

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Taglines The bravest battle ever fought See more »
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Also Known As
  • Soormey Aka Saragarhi Aka Battle of Saragarhi
  • Saragakhri lahing (Estonia)
  • KESARI ケサリ 21人の勇者たち (Japan, Japanese title)
  • A Batalha de Saragarhi (Brazil)
  • Saragarhi Savaşı (Turkey, Turkish title)
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Runtime
  • 150 min
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Box Office

Budget INR1,200,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend India INR543,500,000, 23 Mar 2019

Did You Know?

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Trivia The huge turban that Akshay Kumar wore weighed about 6 kg. See more »
Goofs A crate of .303 Ball ammo is visible in one scene at main gate crate itself is stamped 10-06-51. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in 65th Amazon Filmfare Awards (2020). See more »
Soundtracks Ek Onkaar See more »

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