Tahaan
Tahaan A Boy With a Grenade Hindi is an Indian drama film by Santosh Sivan. The film is based on the life of a young boy and his pet donkey. It is a fablelike journey of the eponymous eightyearold boy, whose life revolves around the pursuit to find real purpose in his little world. The film stars Purav Bhandare as the young boy. Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Rahul Khanna and Victor Banerjee form the rest of the cast. It was filmed on location in Jammu and Kashmir.
On his way back home, Tahaan encounters Idrees, a teenager who discourages him, saying that his efforts will not be sufficient to get Birbal back. Instead he suggests to do him a favour. Tahaan is asked to take a package across the mountains in his onward journey. Upon seeing his eagerness, Idrees hands him over a grenade and says that when the time is right, he will be told what needs to be done. At a checkpoint the package and grenade are not discovered due to the fact that the soldiers know and trust Subhan Darr. Tahaan is about to commit a terrorist act with the grenade and has already removed the pin, when he changes his mind and throws it safely in a river. He then sees his father emerge from the building he almost blew up. Subhans nephew learns that Tahaan is fond of Birbal, and at his request Subhan gives the donkey back to Tahaan.After major commercial releases such as The Terrorist 1999, Asoka 2001, Anandabhadram 2005 and Before the Rains 2007, awardwinning director Santosh Sivan got the idea for this film after reading a newspaper report. He formed a fablelike story from the report. ........
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