Sangharsh (Hindi: सँघर्ष, translation: Struggle) is a 1999 Bollywood film directed by Tanuja Chandra. It stars Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta and Ashutosh Rana. The movie is based on the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs.
A series of child abduction and murders have left the police force perplexed who are unable to solve the case. Hence the case is handed over to CBI, who designate trainee Reet Oberoi (Preity Zinta) to solve the case. After some investigation the evidence points towards Lajja Shankar Pandey (Ashutosh Rana), a religious fanatic who believes in the sacrifice of children to gain immortality. Pandey's erratic behavior and Reet's traumas (as a child she witnesses her older brother, a terrorist, being gunned down by the police in their home) forces Reet to seek help from a prisoner, an unjustly implicated genius by the name Professor Aman Varma (Akshay Kumar).
At first he's rude towards Reet and refuses to help her, but with some help she manages to sway him into helping her. The case gets even more tough as she finds out that the Home Minister's only child has been kidnapped by Pandey. Reet cannot handle the pressure alone due to her traumatic childhood and her phobias, also she faces opposition from the local police partly because of Varma's methods. As they begin to spend more time together, he helps her overcome her fears and they both fall in love with each other.
They both eventually track down Pandey, who is about to begin the last sacrifice on the day of a solar eclipse (Soorya Grahan) which will finally help him attain the unattainable Immortality. Aman and Reet eventually save the child, killing Pandey in the process, but Aman is seriously hurt and is on the brink of death. Reet and Aman share a last kiss and he dies in her arms. Reet is given a hero's welcome and she finds a new sense of life in herself.
| Directed by | Tanuja Chandra |
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| Produced by | Mukesh Bhatt |
| Written by | Mahesh Bhatt Girish Dhamija |
| Starring | Akshay Kumar Preity Zinta Ashutosh Rana |
| Music by | Jatin-Lalit |
| Cinematography | Dharma Teja |
| Editing by | Amit Saxena |
| Distributed by | Vishesh Films |
| Release date(s) | 3 September 1999 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres.[2] It was directed byJonathan Demme and stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, and Scott Glenn. It is based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, his second to feature Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, and grossed over $272 million. The film was the third film to win Oscars in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in theNational Film Registry in 2011
| Directed by | Jonathan Demme |
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| Produced by | Kenneth Utt Edward Saxon Ron Bozman |
| Screenplay by | Ted Tally |
| Based on | The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris |
| Starring | Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins Scott Glenn Ted Levine |
| Music by | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Editing by | Craig McKay |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $19 million[1] |
| Box office | $272,742,922[1] |
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