Tubelight (2017)
Laxman Singh Bisht is nicknamed tube light by his neighbours because he is feeble-minded. Despite being special, Laxman lives by one life-lesson; keep your faith alive and you can do almost anything, even stop a war.
- Date of release
- 2017-06-22
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (107)
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Kabir Khan
Casting
- Salman Khan — 'Tubelight' Laxman Singh Bisht
- Sohail Khan — Bharat Singh Bisht
- Om Puri — Banne Chacha
- Yashpal Sharma — Major Rajbir Tokas
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub — Narayan
- Matin Rey Tangu — Gu Won
- Zhu Zhu — Li Leing
- Brijendra Kala — Shopkeeper
- Isha Talwar — Maya
- Shah Rukh Khan — Goga Pasha
- Chien Ho Liao — Chinese Soldier 1
- Jason D'Souza — Little Laxman
Interesting facts
Tubelight is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language war drama film written and directed by Kabir Khan. Produced by Salman Khan and Kabir Khan, it is set in the 1962 Sino-Indian War. It stars Salman Khan and Sohail Khan in the lead roles, with Zhu Zhu, Matin Rey Tangu, Om Puri and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub in supporting roles. Shah Rukh Khan features in a guest appearance. Pritam composed music for the film, with a score by Julius Packiam. It is an adaptation of the 2015 American film Little Boy.
Production
Kabir Khan obtained a no objection certificate from the makers of the Kannada film Tubelight. The first schedule of filming started on 30 December 2012 in Ladakh. Chinese actress Zhu Zhu was finalised for the role, and she commenced shooting from 15 October 2013. The first schedule lasted for a month and was completed in April 2014.
Sequences were shot in Ladakh, Kashmir and Manali, Himachal Pradesh. film Is Previously Scheduled to release on 11 April 2015 and 3 September 2016.
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