Mumbai: Billu Ustaad, billed as India’s first feature film which discusses how innocent children are lured and misused for terror activities, will release in India on Feb.16 next year, said its director Suvahhdan Angre.

Inspired by the work of Bhanupratap Barge, Head of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, Pune — who fought the terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes — the film looks at the disturbing trend among extremist organisations who identify and recruit minor children from orphanages.

“Such organisations are known to brainwash, indoctrinate these young minds and deploy them for committing terror acts. Billu Ustaad tells the story of one such organisation which recruits children from an orphanage to become ‘live-bombs’ and strike terror in public places,” Angre told IANS here on Thursday.

The plot revolves around how a nondescript orphanage gets involved in terrorist and criminal activities, while the ATS fights to save the gullible children from being dragged into terror acts, said producer Shantanu Singh.

Indo-Asian News Service