Badlapur (2015)

Original title

बदलापुर

Directed by

Sriram Raghavan

Genre

drama film, crime thriller film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

16

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 155 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man's wife and son are killed during a bank robbery. He spends years hunting down the robber who got away, turning his life into a quest for revenge that destroys everything around him.

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What happens

Badlapur (stylized as बदलाPUR) (transl. City of Revenge), subtitled on screen as Don't Miss The Beginning, is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Dinesh Vijan and Sunil Lulla under Maddock Films and Eros International. Based on the novel Death's Dark Abyss by Italian writer Massimo Carlotto, the film stars Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, with Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Vinay Pathak, Kumud Mishra, Divya Dutta and Radhika Apte in supporting roles. Badlapur was released on 20 February 2015 to positive reviews from critics. The film grossed approximately ₹103 crore (US$11 million) worldwide and became a commercial success. On 11 January 2016, the film was nominated for Best Film in the 61st Filmfare Awards, as well as other categories. Over the years, it has come to be widely regarded as a modern classic, with Dhawan's performance being hailed as his best in the early stages of his career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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