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Raid (2018)

Raid poster
Directed by
Raj Kumar Gupta
Genre
action film, crime thriller film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 59m
Rated
UA
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 134 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An honest income tax officer leads a raid on a wealthy and politically connected businessman in 1980s India. The raid becomes the longest in Indian history as the officer faces resistance and threats.

tensemethodicalsuspensefulseriousdeliberategroundedgritty

What happens

Raid is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Raj Kumar Gupta starring Ajay Devgn, Saurabh Shukla and Ileana D'Cruz. Raid is based on the real life income-tax raid conducted by the officers of Income Tax Department on Sardar Inder Singh in the 1980s, which distinguished itself from others for being the longest raid in Indian history. Raid was released theatrically in India on 16 March 2018 and became a critical and commercial success at the Box office. A sequel, Raid 2 was released in 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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