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Pitaah (2002)

Pitaah poster
Directed by
Mahesh Manjrekar
Genre
rape and revenge film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 07m
Rated
18
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A father seeks justice after a violent crime against his daughter. The story follows his struggle against the legal system and local corruption.

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What happens

Pitaah (transl. Father) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and produced by Avinash Adik. Inspired by the 1989 novel A Time to Kill, which was also adapted into a 1996 film of the same name, it stars Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Das and Om Puri. The film was released on 4 January 2002 and bombed at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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