| Shoot on Sight | |
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| Directed by | Jag Mundhra |
| Produced by | Aron Govil |
| Written by | Carl Austin |
| Starring | Brian Cox Sadie Frost Naseeruddin Shah Om Puri Mikaal Zulfiqar |
| 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.[1] The film was marketed and distributed globally by Aron Govil Productions Inc. The cast includes Brian Cox, Sadie Frost, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri.[2]
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.[3] The shooting of the 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.
- ^ Prairie Miller (26 September 2008). "Shoot on Sight Movie Review". News Blaze. Retrieved 7 March 2015.