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Rehmat Ali

2010 film by Partho Ghosh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7309821
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Rehmat Ali is a 2010 Indian Bengali-language action crime film directed by Partho Ghosh for producers Raj Behl and Geeta Behl, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Rituparna Sengupta and Roopa Ganguly. It marked the return of Chakraborty to the Bengali film industry after a long gap. It is a remake of Partho's 1997 Bollywood film Ghulam-E-Musthafa which itself was remade from 1996 Tamil film Musthaffaa.

Cast

Mithun Chakraborty

Rituparna Sengupta

Roopa Ganguly

Biswajit Chakraborty

Rajatava Dutta

Biswanath

Jayanta Dutta Burman

Sanchita Nandi

Songs

Lyrics have been written by Lipi and Bijoy Bhakat.

"Sundori Sundori" – Shaan

"Moja Dekhabo" – Bappi Lahiri

"Saiyaan Bina Ghar Suna" – Sunidhi Chauhan

"Tumi Amar Ami Tomar" – Shaan, Bappi Lahiri, Alka Yagnik

"Joy Kali Joy Kali" – Sadhana Sargam, Chinton

"Saiyaan Bina Ghar Suna (Remix)" – Madhushree

Box office

Rehmat Ali could not repeat the success of the original Tamil film and ended up as an average success at the box office.

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The public source identifies “Rehmat Ali” as 2010 film by Partho Ghosh. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rehmat, film and Partho.

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This entry incorporates text from Rehmat Ali” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.