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Mission Kashmir
Directed by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Produced by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Vir Chopra
Written by	Vikram Chandra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi, Suketu Mehta, Atul Tiwari
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Hrithik Roshan Preity Zinta Sonali Kulkarni Jackie Shroff Puru Rajkumar
Music by	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Sameer (Lyrics)
Distributed by	Destination Films Vinod Chopra Productions
Release date(s)	October 27, 2000
Running time	160 min.
Language	Hindi, English
IMDb profile

Mission Kashmir is a Bollywood movie, released in India on October 27, 2000, directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta and Jackie Shroff star as the main characters. Mission Kashmir follows the life and tragedy of a young boy named Altaaf after his entire family gets killed by police officers. Ironically he is adopted by the man who killed them. When Altaaf finds out, he seeks revenge. The film went on to do moderately well at the box office, and became the third highest grossing film of the year.

The movie deals with the India-Pakistan-conflict and especially with the tragedy of children suffering from war. Its screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Suketu Mehta. The movie was rated R in America due to violence. The film was screened at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

Inayat Khan (Sanjay Dutt) is a police officer, responsible for the security of Kashmir. One day, his son Irfaan (Yogin Soni) suffers an accident and because of a fatwa (edict) of the leader of a terrorist group, no hospital treats the child and he dies. In order to wipe out the group of terrorists, Inayat Khan ends up killing an entire family along with them. Their young son Altaaf (Roshan) is the only one who survives and so, Inayat adopts him. Altaaf only remembers Khan's mask-covered face.

One day, Altaaf finds his adopted father's mask and memories return: he realizes that it was his adoptive father who killed his family. After trying to kill him, Altaaf runs away and is brought up by a terrorist group lead by Hilal Kohistani (Jackie Shroff). Now an adult (Hrithik Roshan), the terrorists want to use Altaaf to kill Muslims and Hindus in the Valley of Kashmir. He visits an old friend from his childhood, Sufiya Parvez (Preity Zinta), and though he falls in love with her, he still uses her to achieve his goal: For Altaaf, it's an opportunity for his revenge. Eventually, Khan, now an Inspector General for Kashmir, get ahold of a plot to divide Kashmir, and also learns that it involves Altaaf. It comes down to Khan and Altaaf trying hard as they could to kill one another and losing the ones they love. The finale brings the weary IG trying to convince his adopted son back, a revenge-filled son who is confused and angry about who he owes his allegiance to and finally, a hate-filled terrorist who will do anything to destroy Kashmir and thus, the entire Indian sub-continent.

Mission Kashmir
Studio album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Released	2000 (India)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Tips
Producer	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy chronology
Bhopal Express (1999) Mission Kashnir (2000) Dil Chahta Hai (2001)

The soundtrack of the film contains 7 songs. The music is conducted by the award-winning trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, however not as a trio, but separately. Ehsaan Noorani composed three songs, while Shankar Mahadevan and Loy Mendonsa composed two songs each.

• Sanjay Dutt ... SSP Inayat Khan
• Hrithik Roshan ... Altaaf
• Preity Zinta ... Sufiya Parvez
• Jackie Shroff ... Hilal Kohistani
• Sonali Kulkarni ... Neelima
• Puru Rajkumar ... Malik Ul Khan
• Abhay Chopra ... Avinash Mattoo
• Vineet Sharma ... Gurdeep Singh
• Rajendra Gupta ... Chief Secretary
• Mohsin Memon ... Young Altaaf
• Yogin Soni ... Irfaan

• Mission Kashmir at the Internet Movie Database

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