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Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar (2021)

Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar poster
Original title
संदीप और पिंकी फरार
Directed by
Dibakar Banerjee
Genre
black comedy film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 05m
Rated
12
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A bank employee and a police officer get caught in a web of deceit and corruption after a failed operation forces them to go on the run together. They must learn to trust each other while evading dangerous pursuers.

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What happens

Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar (transl. Sandeep And Pinky Have Absconded) is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language black comedy drama film directed and produced by Dibakar Banerjee with distribution by Yash Raj Films. The film stars Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor as the titular characters. Filming began on 7 November 2017 in Mahipalpur. Initially scheduled for theatrical release on 20 March 2020, the film was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic in India. After being delayed for a year, it was finally released theatrically on 19 March 2021. Made on the budget of ₹20 crores, the film grossed ₹58.125 lakhs globally, emerging as a box office bomb. The critical reception was mixed-to-positive with praise towards the storyline, performances (particularly Chopra), Banerjee's direction and social commentary but criticism towards its slow pacing. At the 67th Filmfare Awards, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar received 10 nominations, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actress (Chopra) and Best Supporting Actress (Neena Gupta), and won Best Dialogue (Grover and Banerjee). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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