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A Wednesday! (2008)

A Wednesday! poster
Directed by
Neeraj Pandey
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
UA
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 366 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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Over the course of four hours on a Wednesday, an ordinary man calls a police commissioner and demands the release of four terrorists or he will set off bombs across Mumbai. The commissioner must navigate the city's security, the man's demands, and the clock to stop a disaster.

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What happens

A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Anjum Rizvi and Shital Bhatia under UTV Motion Pictures and Friday Filmworks. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, and is set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday. The film depicts a confrontation between a police commissioner and an anonymous caller who threatens to detonate bombs throughout Mumbai if four terrorists are not freed from police custody. Released on 5 September 2008, it received widespread critical acclaim and emerged as a commercial success. It was also granted tax exemption in the state of Maharashtra. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards. It went on to be remade in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously as Unnaipol Oruvan and Eenadu (both 2009), and as an English-language Sri Lankan film A Common Man (2013). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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