Anwar

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Anwar
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Directed by	Manish Jha
Produced by	Rajesh Singh
Written by	Manish Jha
Starring	Siddharth Koirala Nauheed Cyrusi Manisha Koirala
Music by	Pankaj Awasthi Mithoon
Cinematography	Kartik Vijay
Editing by	Amitabh Shukla
Release date(s)	12 January 2007
Country	India
Language	Hindi
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Anwar is a 2007 Hindi film starring Manisha Koirala, Rajpal Yadav and Siddarth Koirala. It was written and directed by Manish Jha who is famous for his work in Matrubhoomi.

[edit] Synops is

{ { s p o i le r}} An wa r is t he story of a young man, an artist, who leaves his home and everything he knows in order to es cape a world he no longer recognizes... All he ever wanted was a lo ve story, In stea d, his mentor abandons him and his best friend and his one true love betray him...

Mistaken for a terrorist, Anwar finds himself in the midst of an unusual set of circumstances that resonate deeply with the modern Indian Condition and indeed with the Human Condition in this present-day global village...

Surrounded on all sides by a host of characters who try and engineer the situation to their profit, Anwar becomes the central character upon which the others base their hopes and their deepest desires...

And that, above all, is what Anwar is about. About the simple human need to connect, to love and to be loved, and to believe…

But now remains Faith, Hope, Love, these three…

And the greatest of these is love... ^[1]

[edit] Cast

• Manisha Koirala as Anita
• Siddharth Koirala as Anwar
• Nauheed Cyrusi as Mehru
• Rajpal Yadav as Gopi
• Hiten Tejwani as Udit

[edit] Trivia

• Manisha Koirala's brother, Siddarth makes his debut in the film^{[citation needed]}