What is "lashkar"

Lashkar (Persian: لشکر) may refer to:

• Lascar, a type of sailor or militiaman employed by the British in South Asia (modern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan)
• Lashkar, A Family name common in Bangladesh, Pakistan
• Laskhar (novel), a novel by Mukul Deva
• Lashkar Gah, a city in southern Afghanistan
• Lashkar, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Lashkar, Gwalior, an area of the city of Gwalior, formerly a separate town
• Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant organization in Pakistan
• Lashkar-e-Omar, a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist organization
• Lashkar-e-Qahhar, an Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the 11 July 2006 Mumbai Train Bombings
• Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organization in South Asia

'Lashkar ' is a 1989 Bollywood film directed by Jagdish Kadar and starring Dev Anand, Sonam, Aditya Pancholi, Hemant Birje, Madhavi, Sumeet Saigal, Jaaved Jaffrey, Kiran Kumar and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. The movie was a disaster at the box office and amongst the biggest flops of 1989. This was the only film in the 1980s that Dev Anand starred in that he did not produce or direct.