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Kushti
Kushti
Soundtrack album by Sreenivas and Sharreth
Released	29 April 2010
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Venus Records & Tapes

Kushti
Kushti
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Produced by	Girish Jain
Starring	Rajpal Yadav; Dalip Singh Rana; Om Puri; Sharat Saxena; Manoj Joshi; Nargis Bagheri;
Cinematography	Madhu Neelakandan
Edited by	B. Ajithkumar
Music by	Sreenivas; Sharreth;
Distributed by	Venus Records & Tapes
Release date	14 May 2010;
Running time	121 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Kushti (transl. Wrestling) is a 2010 Indian sports comedy film directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar. The film stars Rajpal Yadav in the lead role, along with the WWE wrestler The Great Khali (Dalip Singh Rana) making his Bollywood debut. The film also stars Manoj Joshi, Om Puri and Sharat Saxena in supporting roles. The film is a remake of the 1985 Malayalam film Mutharamkunnu P. O.^[1]

Plot

The film Kushti is the story of a small village in Northern India where wrestling is a popular sport and an important wrestling match is held every year. Every year rivals Avtar Singh and Jiten Singh try to beat each other in the wrestling match and gain the trusteeship of the village. Chander plays the roles of a village simpleton and a postmaster.

It is filled with misunderstandings and misconceptions of hidden identities and secret love affairs, and the outcome is simply hilarious. The movie begins to take a turn when a certain someone delivers a secret package in the wrong hands. Especially someone who is bound to take advantage and manipulate the real owner of the package.

Avtar Singh has a young and beautiful daughter named Laadli, with whom Chander is madly in love. To get her father's approval for their marriage, he was to first prove his prowess by wrestling with the 7 and a half-foot tall "Rama Krishna." The condition set by Avtar Singh is that Chander has to defeat "Khali" in the wrestling match.

Cast

Rajpal Yadav as Chander
Dalip Singh Rana as Himself
Nargis Bagheri as Laadli
Sharat Saxena as Avtar Singh
Asrani as Janak Lal
Manoj Joshi as Kripashankar
Om Puri as Jiten Singh
Jagadeesh as Puncher Pappu
Razak Khan as Chander's friend
Ramesh Pisharody as Sinterklaas
Asif Basra as Duliya ram (Post Master)

Soundtrack

The music of Kushti is composed by Srinivas, Tauseef Akhtar, AD Boyz and Hriju Roy. The lyrics were done by Sameer. The movie has 5 original songs.^[2]

Song	Singer(s)	Length
"Rang Rasiya"	Anuradha Sriram, Tauseef Akhtar	4:37
"Dangal"	Srinivas, Shreya Ghoshal	4:58
"Kar Kar Kushti Kar"	AD Boyz	3:09
"Hanuman Chalisa"	Ravi Choudhary	3:41
"Dekho Mere Gaon Mein"	Abhijeet Bhattacharya	3:38

Critical reception

Kushti received mixed reviews, but mostly negative.^[3]^[4] The total gross came up to about 3.5/5 score. The song "Rang Rasiya" was praised a lot, which helped the film from going down even lower in business.^{[citation needed]}