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Apne
Apne ( ) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film directed by Anil Sharma. It stars Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Katrina Kaif and Shilpa Shetty. It is the first film to feature Dharmendra, and his real-life sons Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol together. Previously, Sunny and Bobby had worked together in Dillagi (1999), and Dharmendra and Sunny had also appeared together in Sultanat (1986) and Kshatriya (1993). The story revolves around Baldev Chaudhary (Dharmandra), a disgraced former heavyweight boxer, who tries to wash a stain in his boxing career through his sons Angad and Karan (Sunny and Bobby Deol). The theme of a disgruntled retired boxer seeking personal redemption through a boxer son had been explored earlier in Hindi cinema, in Boxer (1984). Dharmendra had earlier played the role of a boxer in the film Main Intequam Loonga (1982). Footage from that film is used as flashback scenes in this film to show Baldev's career as a boxer. The film was released on 29 June 2007, and received positive reviews from critics and emerged as a commercial success at the box office.
Article summary
Apne ( ) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film directed by Anil Sharma. It stars Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Katrina Kaif and Shilpa Shetty. It is the first film to feature Dharmendra, and his real-life sons Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol together. Previously, Sunny and Bobby had worked together in Dillagi (1999), and Dharmendra and Sunny had also appeared together in Sultanat (1986) and Kshatriya (1993). The story revolves around Baldev Chaudhary (Dharmandra), a disgraced former heavyweight boxer, who tries to wash a stain in his boxing career through his sons Angad and Karan (Sunny and Bobby Deol). The theme of a disgruntled retired boxer seeking personal redemption through a boxer son had been explored earlier in Hindi cinema, in Boxer (1984). Dharmendra had earlier played the role of a boxer in the film Main Intequam Loonga (1982). Footage from that film is used as flashback scenes in this film to show Baldev's career as a boxer. The film was released on 29 June 2007, and received positive reviews from critics and emerged as a commercial success at the box office.
Key claims
- release date: 2007-06-29 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the release date is "2007-06-29". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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