Home / Aarakshan

Aarakshan

Year:

2011

Genres:

Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Prakash Jha

Awards:

4 wins & 8 nominations

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 2011-08-12

Filming Locations: Upper Lake, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $342,801 (USA) (14 August 2011)

Gross: $342,801 (USA) (14 August 2011)

Cast

Actor

Character

Hema Malini

Saif Ali Khan

Deepika Padukone

Amitabh Bachchan

Prabhakar Anand

Manoj Bajpayee

Mithilesh Singh (as Manoj Bajpai)

Prateik

Sushant Seth

Tanvi Azmi

Kavita P. Anand

Saurabh Shukla

Mantri Baburao

Darshan Jariwala

Anirudh Chaudhary

Yashpal Sharma

Shambhu Yadav

Mukesh Tiwari

Police Inspector

Rajeev Verma

Damodar

S.M. Zaheer

Retired Professor

Chetan Pandit

Vinay Apte

Neta Bhishamber

Anita Kanwar

Mrs. Kantaprasad

Aachal Munjal

Muniya S. Yadav

Sonal Jha

Nitosh N.

Amitosh Nagpal

Pandit ji

Gyanesh Pandey

Advocate Abhishek

Gary Tantony

Prof. Barkis

Did you know?

Trivia

The reason why Amitabh Bachchan's office had a picture of Krishna Raja was there to show his ideology was as strong as Krishna Raja.

Share this

Ajay Devgun was the original choice to play one of the main characters, but he was unavailable due to his other commitments, so the role was offered to Saif Ali Khan.

Share this

Chhannulal Mishra normally refuses the regular film songs, but he realized this was a very special track and he agreed to sing for the movie.

Share this

Goofs

Throughout the movie Deepak Kumar and Mithilesh Singh are shown carrying BlackBerry 9800 Torch mobile phones. The movie is set in 2008 whereas the phone was launched in 2010.

Share this

Quotes

Prabhakar Anand: Q.E.D. stands for "Quite Easily Done."

Share this