Basanti (2000)

Basanti is a brave working class teenage girl whose father Shankar is respected in the village for his honesty. Bhavani Shankar wants to force him to support his puppet candidate in the next election, but his brother, Basanti's father, supports another good man, Aftab Ahmad Khan. Bhavani Shankar's henchmen kill Basanti's father and Aftab Khan in front of the girl's eyes.

Date of release

2000-01-01

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Bashir Babbar

Casting

• Durgesh Nandini
• Shakti Kapoor
• Kiran Kumar
• Deepak Shirke
• Raza Murad
• Ishrat Ali
• Anil Nagrath
• Joginder Shelly

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