Baabarr is a 2009 gangster Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 film directed by Ashu Trikha

Ashu Trikha

Ashu Trikha is an Indian film director and producer of Bollywood. He started his career with Mithun Chakraborty movie Zindagi Tere Naam which also saw the return of Ranjeeta Kaur to Bollywood. But for unknown reasons, the movie is still unreleased. His second venture Baabarr had Mithun and Om Puri...

. The film stars Sohum Shah, Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....

 and Urvashi Sharma

Urvashi Sharma

Urvashi Sharma is an Indian Bollywood actress & model, born in Delhi in a Hindu Family. She is of Indian ethnicity. She has appeared in numerous print and television advertisements and featured in music videos like Mika's Something Something and Atif's "Doorie". Her debut movie, Naqaab was...

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Cast

• Sohum Shah as Baabarr Qureshi
• Mithun Chakraborty
  Mithun Chakraborty
  Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....
  
   as. SP Dwivedi
• Urvashi Sharma
  Urvashi Sharma
  Urvashi Sharma is an Indian Bollywood actress & model, born in Delhi in a Hindu Family. She is of Indian ethnicity. She has appeared in numerous print and television advertisements and featured in music videos like Mika's Something Something and Atif's "Doorie". Her debut movie, Naqaab was...
  
   as. Ziya
• Mukesh Tiwari
  Mukesh Tiwari
  Mukesh Tiwari is an Indian actor who has appeared in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu language films as a character role. He belongs To Sagar. His first appearance was as a bandit "Jagira" in China Gate in 1998...
  
   as. Nawaz
• Govind Namdeo
  Govind Namdeo
  Govind Namdeo is an Indian film actor. Govind made his debut as a corrupt cop in David Dhawan's Shola Aur Shabnam . He has acted in numerous A grade movies...
  
   as. Bhaiyaa Jee
• Om Puri
  Om Puri
  Om Puri is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian films and art films. His credits also include appearances in British and American films. He has received an honorary OBE.-Early life:...
  
   as. Daroga Chaturvedi
• Tinu Anand as. Mamu
• Sushant Singh
  Sushant Singh
  Sushant Singh is an Indian actor, born in 1971.-Biography:He hails from Bijnor District in Uttar Pradesh. He did his schooling from a residential public school in Nainital - Birla Vidya Mandir. He did his post graduation in English Literature from Kirori Mal College and was involved with the fine...
  
   as. Tabrez
• Kashish as. Aafreen
• Shakti Kapoor
  Shakti Kapoor
  Shakti Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor. He is notably known for playing vulgar comic and villainous roles. He is known for acting alongside comedian Kader Khan as his sidekick along with Asrani in over 100 films.-Early life:...
  
   as. Sarfaraaz

Legal issues

A PIL

Public interest litigation

In Indian law, Public Interest Litigation OR जनहित याचिका means litigation for the protection of the public interest. It is litigation introduced in a court of law, not by the aggrieved party but by the court itself or by any other private party...

 was filed in the Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court at Mumbai, Maharashtra, is the High Court of India with jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra & Goa, and, the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli...

 seeking a ban on Baabarr for alleged negative portrayal of Muslims. The petitioner also charged that characters in the film were based on Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav in Hindi मुलायम सिंह यादव is an Indian politician and has influence mainly in Uttar Pradesh state of India...

 and Mayawati

Mayawati

Mayawati is the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India. She heads the Bahujan Samaj Party, which represents the Bahujans or Dalits, the weakest strata of Indian society. This is her fourth term as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh...

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Awards

Recently the cast and crew of the film visited Asian Academy Of Film & Television

Asian Academy of Film & Television

The Asian Academy of Film & Television is a film school located in India's Noida Film City in India's Capital region, NCR. It is affiliated with the International Film & Television Research Center and the Marwah Films & Video Studios....

and they have been honoured with the life membership of International Film And Television Club.