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Ittefaq (2017)

Ittefaq poster
Original title
इत्तेफ़ाक़
Directed by
Abhay Chopra
Genre
drama film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
16
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 118 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A writer is accused of murdering his wife and a police officer investigates. Another woman's account of the same night complicates the case with conflicting versions.

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What happens

Ittefaq (transl. Coincidence) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Abhay Chopra, written by Chopra, Shreyas Jain and Nikhil Mehrotra, and produced by Gauri Khan and Shah Rukh Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment in association with Renu Ravi Chopra under B. R. Studios and Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar under Dharma Productions. An adaptation of the eponymous 1969 film by Yash Chopra, the film stars Akshaye Khanna, Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha, and has a Rashomon effect storytelling style. The film was released on 3 November 2017. It was a moderate commercial success at the box office and received positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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