When Bollywood Took On Terrorism

When Bollywood Took On Terrorism

Picking up the most off beat genre films, based on a social message or depicting the problems that the nation has been facing in the past! We bring you the list of such few Bollywood films which render around the sensitive topic of terrorism.

Baby

Akhshay starrer, Neeraj Pandey's 'Baby' is an action thriller based on terrorism. This film is about an officer from Counter Intelligence Unit, who is a trying to protect the nation from a terror attack. The unit goes through escalating challenges with time ticking against them and risks escalating.

The film is due for release on January 23, 2015.

A Wednesday

Another film by the talented director Neeraj Pandey. 'A Wednesday' is a thriller drama film, It is a story narrated by Mumbai police commissioner, who recalls an incident of an unknown call on a Wednesday, which created ripples of terror in the entire city. A Common Man is the official remake in English.

D-Day

D-day is a film directed by Nikhil Advani starring Rishi Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Irrfan Khan. The story of the film involves a team of experts who are sent on a mission to bring back India's most wanted man. But as the chain of events follow something goes terribly wrong in their mission.

Madras Cafe

'Madras Cafe' is an Indian political spy thriller film by Shoojit Sircar. In the film John Abraham plays the character of a army officer, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Holiday

A.R. Murugadoss's 'Holiday' had Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead. The film is about a army officer who is back home on a holiday, and who encounters a terrorist gangs penetrating in the city. The officer hunts down the sleeper gang and it's head and deactivate the entire circuit.

Black Friday

Anurag Kashyap's 'Black Friday', The film is based on Black Friday - The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by S. Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. The film was kept on hold by the Censor Board for two years, keeping in mind the sensitivity of the incident involved. Later , released in February, 2007.