This Friday will see ' Bangistan ' hitting the screens. Going by the report, the filmmaker Ritesh Sidhwani and actor Riteish Deshmukh met central Anti-Terror Squad officials with a special request. As anti-terror officials have to contend with one of the major issues like radicalization of impressionable minds, ' Bangistan ' team's purpose was to interact with the misguided youth who pick up the path of terrorism.

Ritesh Sidhwani stated "Our intention was to get the youth who have been brainwashed. We wanted to understand what drives them to take this path and show them our film, Bangistan, since it talks of the issue and portrays the journey of two suicide bombers (Riteish and Pulkit) who transform in their journey and realize the futility of giving up their lives for the cause of terror. We were not given permission, but our interaction with the officials was an eye-opener. We were informed that most of these 21 to 24-year-olds are self-taught with incendiary material available on social media. They are educated but are highly impressionable and come from different religions."

Presented by Excel Entertainment and Junglee Pictures, ' Bangistan ' releases on August 7.