Shorgul (2016)
Based on the innocent friendship between a Hindu boy Raghu and a Muslim girl which rapidly escalates into a political minefield, causing unrest and chaos in Uttar Pradesh.
- Date of release
- 2016-07-01
- TMDB
- 4.9 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Jitendra Tiwari
Casting
- Jimmy Shergill — Ranjit Om
- Ashutosh Rana — Chaudhary
- Eijaz Khan — Mustaqeem
- Sanjay Suri — Mithilesh Yadav
- Hiten Tejwani — Saleem
- Narendra Jha — Alam Khan
- Deepraj Rana — Police Inspector
- Hrishitaa Bhatt — Dancer
- Sharik Khan jr — Zainab Friend
Interesting facts
Shorgul (transl. Uproar) is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language political thriller film, set against the backdrop of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots; it is directed by Pranav Kumar Singh The film is produced by 24 FPS film Pvt Ltd. The film stars Jimmy Sheirgill, Suha Gezen, Ashutosh Rana, Narendra Jha, Anirudh Dave, Sanjay Suri, Hiten Tejwani and Eijaz Khan in lead roles.
Production
The shooting of the film started on 16 May 2015. Many scenes were shot in Lucknow.
The film has been slated to release on 24 June 2016. The scenes of Godhra and cow references have been muted in Shorgul by CBFC. Shorgul got U/A certificate from the censor Board. A scene of the film was leaked online before the release in which actor Narendra Jha is giving hate speech similar to that of Hyderabad MIM Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi's December 2012 Adilabad Speech.
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