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{{Infobox film
| name = Bhole Shankar
| image = Bhole Shankar.jpg
| director = Pankaj Shukla
| producer = Gulshan Bhatia
| writer = Pankaj Shukla
| narrator =
| starring = [[Mithun Chakraborty]]<br />[[Manoj Tiwari (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]]<br />[[Antara Biswas|Monalisa]]<br />Master Shivendu
| music = Dhananjay Mishra
| cinematography = Raju Kaygee
| editing = Prashant-Komal

| distributor = Abhay Sinha
| released = 12 September 2008
| runtime = 130 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Bhojpuri]]
| budget =
}}

'''''Bhole Shankar''''' is a 2008 Indian Bhojpuri-language film directed by Pankaj Shukla and produced by Gulshan Bhatia, starring [[Mithun Chakraborty]] and [[Manoj Tiwari (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]] . The film took the biggest opening for a Bhojpuri film and is considered as the biggest Bhojpuri hit.<ref name="bihar">{{cite web |url= http://www.screenindia.com/news/mithuns-first-bhojpuri-film-creates-record-in-bihar/367841/ |title= Mithun’s first Bhojpuri film creates record in Bihar |date= 3 October 2008 |work= Screen |access-date= 10 December 2009 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081005022100/http://www.screenindia.com/news/mithuns-first-bhojpuri-film-creates-record-in-bihar/367841/ |archivedate= 5 October 2008 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>

== Synopsis ==
''Bhole Shankar'' revolves around the unemployment issue where [[Mithun Chakraborty]] plays the role of Shankar, an underworld Don and the elder brother of Bhole, played by Manoj Tiwari. ''Bhole Shankar'' is the first Bhojpuri film of [[Mithun Chakraborty]].

== Cast ==
*[[Mithun Chakraborty]] as Shankar
*[[Manoj Tiwari (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]] as Bhole
*[[Antara Biswas|Monalisa]]
*Lovy Rohtagi
*Gopal Singh
*Shabnam Kapoor
*Rajesh Vivek
*Shivendu Shukla
*Nishtha
*Ujjwal

==Soundtrack==
The film's music was composed by Dhananjay Mishra and the lyrics were written by Bipin Bahaar. Playback singer [[Shailender Singh]] came out of retirement to perform the song "''Jai Ho Chhath Maiya''" for the film.
#"''Re Bauraee Chanchal Kirniya''" – [[Raja Hasan]]
#"''Dil Ke Haal Bataeen Kaise''" – [[Mauli Dave]]
#"''Tori Marji''" -[[Poonam Yadav]], Manoj Tiwari
#"''Piya More Gaile Rama''" – [[Indu Sonali]]
#"''Naak Ke Nathiya''" – Manoj Tiwari
#"''Kehu Sapna Mein''" – Kalpana, [[Udit Narayan]]
#"''Jai Ho Chhath Maiya''" – [[Shailender Singh|Shailendra Singh]], Malini Awasthi
#"''Jab Jab Aave Yaad''" – Indu Sonali, [[Ujjaini Mukherjee|Ujjaini]], Manoj Tiwari
#"''Ae Bhai Ji''" – Manoj Tiwari

==Box office==
Although, the film was initially banned in Bihar,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetechmk.com/Mithun-s-films-banned-from-release-in-Bihar|title=Mithun's films banned from release in Bihar|date=29 December 2007|work=thetechmk|access-date=27 November 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> it earned more than Rs. 35 Lac. in Bihar alone in its opening weekend, a record for any Bhojpuri film in the state. The film went on to complete 100 days run at various cinema halls. The film got very good response even from Non-Bhojpuri speaking audience and film was running well after one year in many parts of Northern India. This was the first Bhojpuri film to get a simultaneous release in overseas market like Nepal, Fiji, Mauritius and Guiana.

==References==
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[[Category:2008 films]]
[[Category:Bhojpuri-language films]]
[[Category:Urdu-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Lucknow]]
[[Category:2000s Bhojpuri-language films]]

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