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Maachis is a 1996 Indian Hindi period political thriller film directed by Gulzar and produced by R. V. Pandit. It stars Om Puri, Tabu, Chandrachur Singh and Jimmy Sheirgill in the lead roles. The film portrays the circumstances surrounding the rise of the Sikh insurgency in Punjab in the 1980s and traces the transformation of a youth from a boy next door to an angry person bent on wreaking vengeance, upon receiving gross injustice from the political system and sidelined being labelled as terrorist, to make it easy to kill him without any state accountability.
Original Release
10/25/1996
Cast
Name | Character |
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Om Puri | Sanatan |
Tabu | Veerandra 'Veeran' / Virender Kaur a.k.a. Veeran |
Chandrachur Singh | Kripal Singh / Kripal Singh 'Pali' |
Kanwaljeet Singh | Inspector Vohra |
Kulbhushan Kharbanda | Commander |
Raj Zutshi | Jaswant Singh Randhawa 'Jassi' / Jaswant Singh Randhawa a.k.a. Jassi |
Suneel Sinha | Vazira |
Jimmy Shergill | Jaimal Singh / Jaimal 'Jimmy' |
Ravi Gosain | Kuldip |
Navninder Behl | Mother |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Om Puri | Sanatan |
Tabu | Veerandra 'Veeran' / Virender Kaur a.k.a. Veeran |
Chandrachur Singh | Kripal Singh / Kripal Singh 'Pali' |
Kanwaljeet Singh | Inspector Vohra |
Kulbhushan Kharbanda | Commander |
Raj Zutshi | Jaswant Singh Randhawa 'Jassi' / Jaswant Singh Randhawa a.k.a. Jassi |
Suneel Sinha | Vazira |
Jimmy Shergill | Jaimal Singh / Jaimal 'Jimmy' |
Ravi Gosain | Kuldip |
Navninder Behl | Mother |
Amrik Gill | Nanoo |
Banwari Taneja | Kripal Singh - Pali's father |
S.M. Zaheer | Inspector Khurana / Khurana |
Bhupendra | (as Bhupender) |
Devendra Malhotra | |
Mohan Kant | |
Anand Vardhan Shukla | |
Basant Bhardwaj | |
Bharat Bhushan | |
Shahzad Malik |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Shabuddin Choudhary | Producer |
R.V. Pandit | Producer |