| Shoot on Sight | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Jag Mundhra |
| Written by | Carl Austin |
| Produced by | Aron Govil |
| Starring | Brian Cox Sadie Frost Naseeruddin Shah Om Puri Mikaal Zulfiqar |
| Cinematography | Madhu Ambat |
| Music by | John Altman |
| Distributed by | Aron Govill Productions |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Shoot on Sight is a 2007 British film directed by Jag Mundhra and produced by Aron Govil. The film was marketed and distributed globally by Aron Govil Productions Inc. The cast includes Brian Cox, Sadie Frost, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri.
Plot
Tariq Ali (played by Naseeruddin Shah), a Muslim police commander of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of the 7 July bombings in London. Ali's task becomes more complicated as an innocent Muslim is killed by armed police on the Underground. Ali (Naseeruddin Shah), a Lahore-born British citizen married to an English woman with two children, is himself distrusted by his colleagues, despite his long service in the Metropolitan Police.
Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah as Police Commander Tariq Ali
- Greta Scacchi as Susan Ali
- Brian Cox as Daniel Tennant
- Stephen Greif as Commander John Shepherd
- Om Puri as Junaid
- Gulshan Grover as Yunus
- Chris Wilson as Police CO19 Officer
- Sadie Frost as Advocate Fiona Monroe
- Mikaal Zulfiqar as Zaheer Khan
- Laila Rouass as Ruby Kaur
- India Wadsworth as Zara Ali
- Arrun Harker as Imran Ali
- Tolga Safer as Aziz
- Clifford Samuel as Elijah
- San Shella as Abdullah
- Julian Glover as Susan's Father
- Ralph Ineson as Marber
- Josie Kidd as Susan's Mother
- Avtar Kaul as Baqir Hassan
- Robert Lowe as Sean's Mate
- Taru Devani as Baqir's Mother
- John Warman as Armed Response
- Alex McSweeney as PC Brian Andrews
- Cloudia Swann as PC Justine Miller
- Clemency Burton-Hill as Pamela Davies
- Sylvester Williams as Reporter 1
- James Harrington as Reporter 2
- Jamie Doyle as Sean
- Ashley Allen as Sean's Mate
- Faye Peters as Hannah Marber
- Neelam Bakshi as Yunus's Wife
Production
Shoot on Sight is a story based on Operation Kratos, the police "shoot-to-kill" policy applied to suspected suicide-bombers after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The shooting of an innocent Muslim in the Underground is based on an actual event, the shooting of an innocent Brazilian on 22 July 2005 whom police thought to be a Muslim terrorist about to detonate a suicide bomb.
References
- Jeannette Catsoulis (26 September 2008). "Conflict in Britain". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- Rahul Kapoor (16 October 2008). "Shoot on Sight Review". Real Bollywood. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
External links
- Shoot on Sight at IMDb
- Reuters
- http://www.radiosargam.com/films/archives/5448/movie-preview-shoot-on-sight-2007.html
- http://www.arongovil.com/2008/sos_news.php
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