Tahaan – A Boy With a Grenade is an Indian Hindi-language drama film by Santosh Sivan.

[2] It is a fable-like journey of the eponymous eight-year-old boy, whose life revolves around the pursuit to find real purpose in his little world.

He is told that old Subhan Dar (Anupam Kher) bought the donkey and went across the mountains in which Tahaan's father went missing.

He finds him, and he follows Subhan and his assistant Zafar (Rahul Bose) and their mule train, leading Birbal despite their protests.

At a checkpoint, the package and grenade are not discovered due to the fact that the soldiers know and trust Subhan Darr.

Tahaan is about to commit a terrorist act with the grenade and has already removed the pin when he changes his mind and throws it safely in a river.

After major commercial releases such as The Terrorist (1999), Asoka (2001), Anandabhadram (2005) and Before the Rains (2007), award-winning director Santosh Sivan got the idea for this film after reading a newspaper report.

[6][7] The film makes eloquent use of Quranic verses or azaan, for which the director took help from research scholars in Kashmir.