Iqbal (2005-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Iqbal Movie Details :

Iqbal is a 2005 Indian Bollywood coming-of-age sports drama film writter and directer is Nagesh Kukunoor.Producer is Subhash Ghai, under “Mukta Searchlight Films”, the story follows a cricket-obsessed deaf and mute boy from a remote Indian village as he aims to overcomes difficulties to become a cricketer and fulfill his dream of playing for the Indian national cricket team. The film received the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.

The film was screened retrospective on 18 August 2016 at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating 70th Indian Independence Day.

• Directer : Nagesh Kukunoor
• Producer : Subhash Ghai
• Writter : Nagesh Kukunoor,Mir Ali Hussain
• Screenplay : Nagesh Kukunoo
• Story : Nagesh Kukunoor
• Starring : Naseeruddin Shah,Shreyas Talpade,Shreyas Talpade,Yatin Karyekar,Prateeksha Lonkar,Shweta Prasad
• Music : Himesh Reshammiya,Sukhwinder Singh,Salim-Sulaiman
• Cinematography : Sudeep Chatterjee
• Editer : Sanjib Datta
• Production Design : Devika Bahudhanam
• Art Direction : Sunil Babu
• Costume Design : Fabeha,Elahe Hiptoola
• Production Management : Vibhu Kashyap,Pranav Surendra Shastri
• Assistant Director : Shashi Sudigala,Himanshu Vora
• Art Department : Manjula Dasgupta,Janani Ravichandran
• Production Company : Mukta Searchlight Films
• Distributors : Ultra Media & Entertainment
• Genres : Drama,Sport
• Release date : 26 August 2005
• Running time : 132 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Iqbal Movie Trailer :

Star Cast of The Film :

• Shreyas Talpade … Iqbal
• Naseeruddin Shah … Mohit
• Shweta Basu Prasad … Khadija (as Shweta Prasad)
• Yatin Karyekar … Anwar
• Prateeksha Lonkar … Saida
• Girish Karnad … Guruji
• Dilip Salgaonkar … Bipin
• Jyoti Joshi … Farida
• Aadarsh Balakrishna … Kamal
• Gururaj Manepalli … Akash
• Rajita Joshi … Doctor
• Srikanth Chitrao … Sunil Mitra, the Selector
• Vikram Inamdar … DeSouza, the Team Manager
• Elahe Hiptoola … TV Reporter
• Balaji Manohar … Mohammed, the Team Captain
• D. Santosh … Satish BhatavadekarVibhu Kashyap … Match Reporter
• K. Sridhar … Boy at KCA
• T.P. Varun … Boy at KCA
• Rohit Bharadwaj … Boy at KCA
• Nitin Tangaraj … Boy at KCA
• Chaitanya … Boy at KCA
• Koti Babu … Boy at KCA
• G. Avinash … Boy at KCA
• Sridhar … Boy at KCA

Story of The Film :

India – a Nation obsessed with cricket – and it is not very often one comes across anyone who loathes cricket as much as farmer Anwar Khan, who feels that it is a waste of time watching some grown men playing, not only getting paid, but costing the nation millions of lost work hours. His family, especially his wife, Saida, does not quite agree with him. As a matter of fact, she broke water when watching a cricket match with a TV set perched on a branch of a tree with almost the entire village in attendance. This is how Iqbal was born, followed by the birth of his sister, Khadija. Iqbal, though deaf and dumb, shared his mother’s and sister’s passion for cricket, he would tend to the buffaloes, who though all female, had been named after male cricketers, including Kapil Dev.

While tending to them, he would stop and watch youngsters being trained by the renowned Guruji. When Guruji finds out about Iqbal’s interest in the game, he recruits him, but lets him go when a dispute flares up between his top pupil, Kamal, and Iqbal. A disheartened Iqbal finds a new mentor, in the form of alcoholic farmhand, Mohit, who reluctantly decides to tutor Iqbal, so much so that Iqbal qualifies to play in the Andhra Pradesh team for a Ranji trophy match.

The match is won, and a way is cleared for Iqbal to find a place in the Indian team. Then all chaos breaks lose when Anwar refuses to let Iqbal indulge anymore in this waste of time, and asks him to go to the farm and help him. But Mohit is able to convince him to change his mind, only to find out that Guruji, who favors his star pupil Kamal, for a place in the Indian cricket team, and will do his utmost to foil any attempt by Mohit to promote Iqbal.

Iqbal Movie Songs / Music :

The music is composer are duo Salim–Sulaiman, Himesh Reshammiya, Sarosh-Kedar, Om The Fusion Band, Sukhwinder Singh

• ”Aankhon Mein Sapna” – Ravindra Upadhyay
• ”Aashayein” – KK
• ”Aashayeinv” – KK
• ”Khelenge Khelenge” – Sukhwinder Singh
• ”Maula” – Shriram Iyer
• ”Mutthi Mein Aasman” – K.K
• ”Paani” – Suresh Wadkar, Sukhwinder Singh,Sweta Pandit
• ”Tum Tana” – Shriram Iyer

”Aashayein” Full Video Song :

• Song : Aashayein 
• Singer : KK
• Music Composer : Salim-Sulaiman and Himesh Reshammiya

”Mutti Mein Aasman” Full Video Song :

• Song : Mutti Mein Aasman
• Singer : KK
• Music Composer : Salim-Sulaiman and Himesh Reshammiya

Iqbal Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.9 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 234.

Believe it or not, I registered at IMDb today just to rate this movie. This is the best inspirational Movie I have ever seen.

Lesson which I learned from this movie is never give up on your dreams. No matter how much difficulties you face or how far you have to go. Never Give up. You’ll get your goal one day.

Another good point is everything is natural in this movie. The scripts and acting is at its best. Its truly inspirational. It gives you a new life and inspires to give fresh start to life.

This is really worth watching. Another best point is the close feel of Indian village culture in this movie. There are no artificial materialism in this movie. Everything feels so natural and touches your heart.

Critics Rating by Nawaz, from Letterboxd give 3.5 star out of 5 Star.

Awards :

• National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues – Nagesh Kukunoor & Subhash Ghai
• National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor – Naseeruddin Shah
• Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actor – Male – Shreyas Talpade
• Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actor – Female – Shweta Prasad
• Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress – Shweta Prasad

Iqbal Movie Box Office Collection :

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