MUMBAI: A new, low-budget Bollywood film depicting the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks opens in India this week, less than a month after the sole surviving gunman was convicted and sentenced to death.
"26/11", which was made for just 20 million rupees (420,000 dollars) with a cast of relative unknowns, is due to hit more than 100 screens across the country on Friday.
Lead actor Rajan Verma dedicated the film to India's police and security services, who battled the 10 heavily armed Islamist militants to bring the bloody, three-day siege to an end.
"The film is a tribute to all the martyrs of Mumbai police and our armed forces who lost their lives in the terrorist attack," said Verma, who plays Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab.
"The film has no songs and dance but only action and what happened on that tragic night," he added.
Kasab, 22, was the only gunman captured alive during the attacks, which began on November 26, 2008 and targeted three luxury hotels, the city's main railway station, a popular tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre.
A total of 166 people were killed and more than 300 others were injured.
"26/11", which was made for just 20 million rupees (420,000 dollars) with a cast of relative unknowns, is due to hit more than 100 screens across the country on Friday.
Lead actor Rajan Verma dedicated the film to India's police and security services, who battled the 10 heavily armed Islamist militants to bring the bloody, three-day siege to an end.
"The film is a tribute to all the martyrs of Mumbai police and our armed forces who lost their lives in the terrorist attack," said Verma, who plays Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab.
"The film has no songs and dance but only action and what happened on that tragic night," he added.
Kasab, 22, was the only gunman captured alive during the attacks, which began on November 26, 2008 and targeted three luxury hotels, the city's main railway station, a popular tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre.
A total of 166 people were killed and more than 300 others were injured.
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