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In 1949, two years after Pakistan was created, Indian movie director M L Anand presented the romance-drama Lahore (1949) [Buy DVD] starring Nargis, Karan Dewan, Om Prakash, Pratima Devi, Randhir and others with music by Shyam Sunder.

The 2010 Indian Hindi Movie LAHORE is a completely different story. Designed to stir up nationalistic passions in Indians and Pakistanis who have been brainwashed over generations to be arch enemies, Lahore (2010) puts an Indian kick-boxing team competing with Pakistan in the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore. Sports has taken on a nationalist role in South-Asian cinema recently - Dil Bole Hadippa (2009) [Blu-Ray DVD ] pitted a Pakistani cricket team against an Indian one, and the Pakistanis were shown to accept defeat gracefully from an Indian team that contained a woman masquerading a man. Also, a Bangladeshi soccer team is seen outplaying an Indian team in the recent Bangladeshi movie Jaago (2009).

Lahore (2010) is  Directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan with music by M M Kreem. The starcast includes Farooq Sheikh, Nafisa Ali, Shraddha Nigam, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Nirmal Pandey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sourav Shukla, Kelly Dorji, Anahad, Sushant  Singh, Pramod Moutho and more.

The multiple award-winning Lahore debuted at the 2009 Salento International Film Festival in Italy, and the theatrical release date is March 19, 2010.

Watch the full theatrical promo-preview trailer of Lahore online: