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Aiyaary (2018)

Aiyaary poster
Original title
अय्यारी
Directed by
Neeraj Pandey
Genre
drama film, crime film, thriller film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 37m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 58 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An Indian Army officer tries to stop his former student from revealing secrets about their spy unit. The student wants to expose corruption inside the military.

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What happens

Aiyaary (transl. Shapeshifting) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language spy thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Motion Picture Capital 11, Plan C Studios, Friday Filmworks and Pen India Limited, with Reliance Entertainment serving as distributor and presenter. The film stars Sidharth Malhotra, Manoj Bajpayee, Rakul Preet Singh, Pooja Chopra, Adil Hussain, Kumud Mishra, Naseeruddin Shah, and Anupam Kher. Loosely inspired by the Adarsh Housing society scam, the film follows an Indian Army officer who attempts to stop his rogue protégé from exposing his covert operations and intelligence unit. Initially rescheduled from 26 January to 9 February to yet another week, it was released on 16 February 2018 to mixed-negative reviews from critics and emerged as a box-office disaster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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