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The Attacks of 26/11 (2013)

The Attacks of 26/11 poster
Original title
दि अटैक्स ऑफ 26/11
Directed by
Ram Gopal Varma
Genre
crime film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
18
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film reconstructs the 2008 Mumbai attacks from the perspective of the lone surviving terrorist Ajmal Kasab and the police officer who interrogated him. It follows the sequence of events over those three days, focusing on the standoffs and the manhunt.

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What happens

The Attacks of 26/11 is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, based on the book Kasab: The Face of 26/11 by Rommel Rodrigues about Ajmal Kasab, then sole surviving perpetrator of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The film stars Nana Patekar as Rakesh Maria, then Joint Commissioner of Police and Sanjeev Jaiswal in his film debut, playing the role of terrorist Ajmal Kasab. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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