MUKHBIR

Mukhbir is a fictional period espionage drama set in the 1960s when after the Sino-Indian war, India was battling the humiliation of betrayal and a grim scenario of a shattered economy. There was a constant threat of Pakistan trying to repeat the Chinese story i.e catch India off guard and launch an attack using its newly acquired armoured strength. India could ill afford another war and the only way counter the belligerent neighbour was with superior intel. An unconventional approach was employed by the Indian intelligence machinery to deploy a conman as an onground asset in Pakistan as a common man. He was planted in a family in Lahore under the pretext of being a child having been left behind in India during the partition.

Cast:

• Prakash Raj as S. K. S. Moorthy (based on K. Sankaran Nair)
• Zain Khan Durrani as Harfan Bukhari/Kamran Bakhsh
• Adil Hussain as Ramkishore Negi (based on R. N. Kao)
• Harsh Chhaya as Major General Agha Khan (based on General Yahya Khan)
• Satyadeep Mishra as Alamgir
• Barkha Bisht as Begum Anar
• Dilip Shankar as Col. Zaidi, Director-General of ISI (based on Brigadier Riaz Hussain)
• Zoya Afroz as Jamila Ahmed