Kaante
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Theatrical release poster
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| Hindi | कांटे |
| Directed by | Sanjay Gupta |
| Produced by |
Pritish Nandy Communications Film Club Limited Larry Mortoff Sanjay Sippy |
| Written by | Milap Zaveri (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Sanjay Gupta Yash-Vinay |
| Starring |
Amitabh Bachchan Sanjay Dutt Sunil Shetty Mahesh Manjrekar Lucky Ali Kumar Gaurav Malaika Arora Namrata Singh Gujral Rati Agnihotri Isha Koppikar |
| Music by |
Anand Raj Anand Vishal-Shekhar Lucky Ali |
| Cinematography | Kurt Brabbee |
| Edited by | Bunty Nagi |
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Production
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White Feather Films,
PNC Films |
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Release date
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Running time
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154 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹300-400 million |
| Box office | est.₹429.6 million (US$6.4 million) |
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Soundtrack album by Anand Raj Anand Vishal-Shekhar |
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| Released | 2002 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Language | Hindi |
| Label | T-Series |
| Director | Sanjay Gupta |
| Producer | Pritish Nandy |
Kaante (Translation: Thorns) is a 2002 Indian action-thriller film, directed by Sanjay Gupta and starring an ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Lucky Ali, Namrata Singh Gujral, Rati Agnihotri, Malaika Arora and Isha Koppikar in the lead roles. The film's central plot is based on Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992). According to Tarantino, Kaante is his favorite among the many inspirations from his film.
The film was a success at the box office with one week earnings of £1.9m (India) and total earnings of £622,000 and £268,507 in the United States and Britain respectively.
In Los Angeles, six petty criminals, all of Indian origin, are detained by the Police, and interrogated about stealing a truck full of laptops and its whereabouts. Their deep antipathy towards the police for arresting them without any evidence, just because the witnesses had seen an Indian at the crime scene, grows into a daring plot. Sparked off by "Ajju" (Sanjay Dutt) and seconded by "Major" (Amitabh Bachchan), they all hatch a plan to rob the bank in which lie the fundings for the Los Angeles Police Department. In return, Ajju reveals that he stole the truck and splits the steal with everyone else.
Marc (Suniel Shetty) is a bouncer who hates that his girlfriend has to work as a club-dancer and wants to rescue her from the club owner Cyrus, by paying him the required money. He also has an ongoing spat with Ajju about his girlfriend. Major has a sick wife who he has to look after by supplying her with medicines and injections. Andy (Kumar Gaurav) is a software engineer having divorce and custody troubles, as his wife won't let him meet their child. Mak and Bali (Mahesh Manjrekar) are two drug-peddlers who live off the street selling and buying illicit drugs under a drug lord. They meet when Bali is being chased by some undercover policemen and meets Mak in an alley where he is adjusting something in his car. He agrees to save him only if he splits his loot. They agree to work on this method from that time on.
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