War (2019)

Directed by

Siddharth Anand

Genre

action film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 32m

Rated

MA 15+

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 384 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Indian RAW agent is sent to take down his former mentor who has turned rogue. The film follows their cat and mouse game filled with elaborate fight scenes and twists.

fast-pacedexplosivetensestylishaction-packeddramatic

What happens

War is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The third installment in the YRF Spy Universe, it stars Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff in the lead roles, with Vaani Kapoor and Ashutosh Rana. In the film, an Indian RAW agent is assigned to eliminate his former mentor who has gone rogue. Principal photography commenced in September 2018. Tentatively titled Fighters, the title of War was announced on 15 July 2019. The film was made on an estimated budget of ₹150 crore (US$16 million) with a further ₹20 crore (US$2.1 million) spent on print and advertising. Vishal–Shekhar composed the soundtrack, with the background score composed by Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara, replacing Anand's frequent collaborators Salim–Sulaiman. War was theatrically released on 2 October 2019, with dubbed versions of Telugu and Tamil, coinciding with Gandhi Jayanti. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise towards its action sequences, visuals, direction, cinematography, story, soundtrack, and cast performances, but criticism towards its screenplay. It emerged as a commercial success grossing ₹4.75 billion (US$67.45 million), becoming the highest-grossing Indian film of 2019. A sequel titled War 2 was released in 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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