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Kandahar, titled Mission Kandahar in Canada, is a 2023 American spy action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Mitchell LaFortune. The film stars Gerard Butler (who is also a producer) and features a supporting cast that includes Ali Fazal, Navid Negahban, Bahador Foladi, Nina Toussaint-White, Tom Rhys Harries, Vassilis Koukalani, Mark Arnold, Corey Johnson, and Travis Fimmel.
Kandahar was inspired by an unsuccessful attempt that Nelofer made in 1996 to return to Afghanistan to find her lost childhood friend, Dyana, while Afghanistan was still under Taliban rule. The film combines elements of this true story with fiction, e.g. while Nelofer went to search for her friend, the film presents Nafas searching for her sister.
The film was shown on 24 September 2015, at the Calgary Film Festival, [2] before a general release on 9 October. It won three Canadian Screen Awards . The film is based on the true story of "Route Hyena" (formerly named Route Fosters) which was built by Task Force Kandahar between 2008–2011 during the War in Afghanistan , which over various ...
This unsuccessful attempt inspired the film Kandahar, a highly acclaimed feature film which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, and received significant attention after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The film starred Nelofer as herself, and was a partly-true, partly-fictionalized story based on her 1996 journey.
Just Ask My Children (2001) – historical drama television film recounting the true story of the Kern County child abuse cases [58] Kandahar (Dari: قندهار) (2001) – Iranian drama film based on a partly true, partly fictionalized story of Nafas, a successful Afghan-Canadian woman, set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban [59]
Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.
Payanam (2011): A Tamil film by Radha Mohan based on a similar incident involving an Indian Airlines flight. [90] Yodha (2024): A Hindi film directed by Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha references the incident. [91] IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack (2024): A Netflix web series by Anubhav Sinha based on the incident. [3] [4]
In terms of the film’s legacy, its most obviously iconic moment comes when Andy (30-year spoiler warning incoming) escapes. He crawls through a 500-yard sewage pipe, spills out into a creek, and ...