Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the Hindi film called "TAHAAN".This is about the film of a young boy in Kashmir and this is a great film and especially the location where the film was shot was amazing.Santosh done a great dual job as he is the cinematographer and also the director for this film.

Tahaan is the name of this boy and the story revolves around how he lost his pet animal, i.e donkey and how he gets it back.In the midst of this he was used by a terrorist saying that he could  elp him get the donkey back and the terrorist uses him to transfer the bomb, when it comes to security issues.

The donkey name is Birbala and this is very close to Tahaan and so he never want to be separated from the donkey.In the meanwhile Tahaan's father was been arrested and when Tahaan was about to commit a terrorist act, he sees his father and then realises what was happening around him.

I don't know Hindi, yet I managed to watch this film with the help of subtitles and this is definitely a must watch film.

Technical crew about the film

i)Santosh Shivam is the director and the cinematographer for this film and this is the 5th film as director

ii)Shripal Morakhia and Mubina Rattonsey are the producer for this film

iii)The music director for this film is Taufique Quresh

iv)The editing for this film was done by Shakti Hasija

v)This film was written by Santosh Sivan , Ritesh Menon and Paul Hardart

vi)After many years a full film was shot in Kashmir, thanks to Tahaan

vii)Officially this film was released 5 September 2008

viii)This film has won many awards and also nominated for many more both in National and International arena.

Artist and casts

i)Purav Bhandare as Tahaan.This is the debut film for him and he has done a great job.His expression was too good and he also acted as an innocent boy.Throughout the movie he has perfromed well and also got many appreciation from all.

ii)Anupam Kher as Subhan Darr  an he is also an important character in this film and he is the one who buys Tahaan's donkey for his nephew.He was kind but at the same time Tahaan felt that he broke the promise many times as he didn't return the Donkey after winning the race against his Subhans assistant Zafar.

iii)Rahul Bose as Zafar and he is the assistant of Subham.He was in love with a girl and he was shocked to hear that his lover was going for marriage as he misunderstood that to be her marriage.But the girl was saying that she was going to attend her friends marriage.He with his horse race with Tahan and his Birbala and he loses the race.

iv)Sarika as Haba and she is Tahaan's mother.She couldn't speak and she also lost her hsband and regulary visists jail with his photo to find whether he was in jail and once he was followed by Tahaan.

v)Rahul Khanna as the local money lender and he is the one who takes away Birbala and also some of the family's assets.

vI)Victor Banerjee has done a small role as he is the grandfather of Tahaan and he dies one early morning whic leaves the family without any support.

vii)Sana Shaikh as Zoya and she is the elder sister of Tahaan.She works as a local guide in a hotel.

About the film

This film starts in a beautiful valley of Kashmir when Tahaan searches for Birbala(his donkey) and in this search he also hears gun shots, due to the fighting between Indian and Pakistan Army.At that time his grandfather comes and he warns him not to come here alone.Then they find Birbala and reaches home.Usually Tahaan was teased by his friend when he was with Birbala.

One early morning Tahaan's grandfather was find dead and the family is without a support and there is no one to earn money to give the loan back to the moneylender, Rahul Khanna.So some of the properties of Tahaan and most importantly Birbala was taken by the moneylender.

So get his donkey back Tahaan tried various resources and somehow managed to get money and he goes to the money lender and there he finds that his donkey was already sold to Subhan.So Tahaan goes to Subhan and says he knows how to make the donkey work and he also asks Subhan to take him so that he could take care of Birbala and Tahaan also said he doesn't need any money for this.

Subhan refuses and he along with his assistant, Zafar, started to travel with Birbala and Tahaan begins to follow them without their knowledge.But Subhan realises that he was following and at one stage he also said the if he wins the race with his donkey against Zafar(who had horses) he will give his donkey back and the destination was Subhaan's house.

Meanwhile when they were crossing a bridge which has very high security a terrorist notices Tahaan and he also plans to use Tahaan to overcome the security problem.As Subhan was a well known person security people knows him bver well and he can easily cross the bridge.

Meanwhile Tahaan manages to win the race but Subhan didn't keep his promise as he gave the sun glass instead of Birbala and the disappointed Tahaan started to go to his home.On his way back he was interrruped by a terrorist and the terrorist also said he will help Tahaan in getting his Birbala back.

So the next time when Tahaan was travelling with Subhan to his village the terrorist gives a parcel to Tahaan because he was coming with Subhan dnd he won't be checked by the security guards.Tahaan also accepts to this because he believed that he will get back his Birbala back.

So the security didn't check and after crossing the bridge the terrorist gets the parcel and back in Subhan's house Tahaan sees his Birbala and he also realised thet Subhan brought his Birbala for his Nephew Yasin and he also tells Yasin that Birbala was very close to him and also asked him to buy a new donkey.

During the climax the terrorist assures to get Tahaan his donkey if he throws the bomb on the specific destination and when Tahaan was about to threw the bomb he finds that it was a police station and his father was also there and immediately he throws the grenade in the river.

Tahaan comes home and says his mother about his father whereaboutsMeanwhile Yasin says Subhan to return back Tahaan's donkey

back and it is also shown that a positive result when Tahaan's mother was expecting for her husband to return back.The film finishes, when Tahaan was suprised to see Birbala, when he woke up early in the morning and he was very happy.

The IMDB for this movie is 7.1 out of 10.