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Wednesday!Neeraj PandeyNaseeruddin ShahAnupam KherJimmy ShergillDramaThriller

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A Wednesday

CBFC: U/A
 2008 ‧ Drama/Mystery ‧ 1h 44m
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A retired police commissioner recounts the most memorable case of his career wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai.
Release date5 September 2008 (India)
Budget5 crores INR (equivalent to ₹99 million or US$1.5 million in 2017)
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A Wednesday (2008)

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A retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career. About a case that was never filed but continues to haunt him in his memories - the case of a man and a Wednesday.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anupam Kher ... Prakash Rathod
Naseeruddin Shah ... The Common Man
Jimmy Sheirgill ... Arif Khan (as Jimmy Shergill)
Deepal Shaw ... Naina Roy
Aamir Bashir ... Jai Singh
Kali Prasad Mukherjee ... Ibrahim Khan (as K. P. Mukherjee)
Mukesh Bhatt ... Khurshid Lala
Gaurav Kapoor ... Ajay Khanna (as Gaurav Kapur)
Chetan Pandit ... Chief Minister
Veerendra Saxena ... Babu (as Virendra Saxsena)
Snehal Dabi ... Sambhu (Electric Baba) (as Snehal Dabhi)
Rohitashv Gour ... Ikjhlaque Ahmed (as Rohitashv Gaur)
Vije Bhatia ... Mohammmad Zaheer
Aayam Mehta ... Chief Minister's PA
Rajendra Chawla ... PA Assistant
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Storyline

A man calls up the Mumbai police, and tells them he has placed five different bombs in the city -- all set to go off in some time. He wants four terrorists in exchange. Does he get them? Who is behind it all? What's his motive? Is there more than meets the eye? Written by Saurabh Roy
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A Common Man  »

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Nana Patekar was also considered for the Common Man's role before it went to Naseer See more »

Quotes

Prakash Rathod - Commissioner of Police: Who were the faces of the morning?
Jai Pratap Singh - PIArif Khan - ATS Officer: Own
Prakash Rathod - Commissioner of Police: Oh, Complete the operation and come for drink in the evening at my place.
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Connections

References Biggest Loser Jeetega (2007) See more »

Soundtracks

Jalwa
Written by Irshad Kamil
Composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury
Performed by Shaan
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)
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User Reviews

Ehm...movie about...people walking in a corridors?
20 February 2017 | by See all my reviews
While I understand A Wednesday did some good job in heavy uplifting patriotism, is it enough for it to be placed into top 250? I do not think so. I see most of the reviews are a bit, how to put it, "overly-benevolent", I suppose written by people moved by the message.

While movie have some interesting moments, it is slow paced, unimaginative, predictable, unrealistic and in my opinion, too long. Come on, I feel like 75% of all scenes was just a cops and politicians playing important while heroic music plays - that's it - good guys walking in a corridor (lot of corridors out there, believe me) and music, talking to a phone (you mostly cannot hear what they are saying) and music, waiting in a car and music, sitting, standing and so on. But the story was there, it just the movie should have been shorter by half.

Occasional action is laughable. That is said, if you can call a scene of a some sort of cop beating some sort of thug into a pulp with his 90's midi sound waves superpower (checked, nobody came to any real harm for sure) an action. But short laugh usually came to end shortly afterwards, as some pretty nasty humiliating moments happened to the bad guys (they all are...bad guys...right?), which made me a bit sick (hooray - true emotion).

So to wrap it up, it is a movie showing message of hatred to the bad guys. You hate them bad guys? Then it is a chance you will enjoy this movie. I know terrorism and stuff is a bad thing and so on - OK, but make a quality movie about it, then I bet it will be welcomed into top 250 with open arms.

A Wednesday! - Wikipedia

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A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher. Set between 2 pm and 6 pm on ...
Budget‎: ‎₹50 million (equivalent to ₹99 million ...
Production company‎: ‎Friday Filmworks‎; Anjum ...
Produced by‎: ‎Ronnie Screwvala‎; Shital Bhatia; ...
Music by‎: ‎Sanjoy Chowdhury
  A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey.[2] It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher. Set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday,[3] the film depicts an about-to-retire police commissioner (Anupam Kher) narrating a sequence of events that unfolded on a particular Wednesday. There does not exist any written record. The awareness of the incident exists only in his mind and in those of several individuals who were involved, willingly and unwillingly, and how those events affected the lives of all the concerned people. It was the inspiration for Tamil movie Unnaipol Oruvan , Telugu movie Eeenadu (with Kamal Hassan in the role played by Naseeruddin Shah in the original and Mohanlal and Daggubati Venkatesh playing the role acted by Anupam Kher in the original in Tamil and Telugu respectively), and also the Hollywood movie A Common Man[4] (directed by Chandran Rutnam with actor Ben Kingsley portraying the role played by Nasseruddin Shah and Ben Cross portraying the role played by Anupam Kher). Although film has a quite resembles with 1950's drama thriller Seven Days to Noon[5].
The film, made at a small budget, was a sleeper hit at the box office grossing over Rs. 340 million worldwide. Despite its low promotion, it was a box office success due to critical acclaim and positive word-of-mouth. Box Office India declared it a hit. Critics praised the movie for its effective storyline and its twist ending. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards.

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Plot

Mumbai police commissioner Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher), resting after a jog, describes in a voice-over that he is going to retire the following day. He goes on to describe the most challenging case he faced in his career.
An unnamed man (Naseeruddin Shah) carries a travel bag, assumed to contain explosives, in the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station and proceeds to hide the bag in the restroom of a police station opposite to the Mumbai Police headquarters. He then arrives on the rooftop of a building under construction where he has set up his base of operations, equipped with several sim cards, mobile phones and other electronic gadgets. He calls Rathod and informs him that he has placed five bombs in locations throughout Mumbai and has programmed them to explode simultaneously within four hours unless the Commissioner gives in to his demands and releases four militants. In response, Rathod immediately alerts his team involved in intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available resources to trace the location of the caller. Meanwhile, the caller tips off television news reporter Naina Roy (Deepal Shaw), telling her to reach the police headquarters immediately as it is going to be "the most important day of her life". Rathod initially suspects the anonymous caller is bluffing, but his doubts are dispelled as the caller, to prove his seriousness and the police force's helplessness, reveals that a bomb has been planted in the Colaba Police Station right across the Police Headquarter. He further scares them by calling the cell phone attached to the bomb but does not detonate the bomb. Just then Roy reaches the scene on the caller's instructions and reports about the situation.
As Rathod and his team desperately try to locate the caller, the four militants demanded by the caller are rounded up by police officers Arif (Jimmy Sheirgill) and Jai (Aamir Bashir). In the meanwhile, police depute a young hacker named Anuj to track the location of the caller. The caller then asks the two police officers to leave the four militants near a bench on an Juhu Aviation Base runway, but Arif leaves only three militants behind and takes one of them captive as he suspects that the caller would not reveal the locations of the bombs even after the militants are released.
A phone placed under the bench rings once Arif and Jai are several feet away and an explosion occurs in which the three terrorists perish. Arif relays this information to Rathod, and the anonymous caller reveals he does not belong to any terrorist organization, and his plan was not to free the terrorists but to kill them. The caller sought to avenge all the terrorist attacks they had helped carry out in Mumbai and other major cities of India, specifically the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. His final demand is that the officers kill the fourth militant themselves or he would set off all five bombs in Mumbai. In response, Rathod orders indirectly to Arif and Jai to kill the fourth militant.
After the death of the fourth militant is confirmed on the news, the caller calls Rathod for a final time to reveal that he had not planted any other bombs in the city. At this point, Rathod declares he already knew there were no more bombs, hence his decision to kill the last terrorist was not taken in fear but in confidence. Rathod reaches the caller's location with the help of the young hacker, just as the caller is leaving the place, having destroyed all his gadgets and equipment. The two meet briefly when Rathod, identifying the anonymous caller on the basis of a face sketch, offers the man a ride home and introduces himself.
In a voiceover, Rathod says the man told him his real name but he does not wish to reveal it since doing so would give away the man's religion. Rathod admits that he knew the caller was disturbed because of the insecure environment and the incompetence of the governing authorities, but he never imagined a common man would go to such lengths to achieve this end. He also notes that the facts of this incident cannot be found in any written record but only in the memories of those who actually witnessed it, and further acknowledges that although the incident has ambiguous moral significance, he personally feels that whatever happened, happened for the best.

Cast

  • Anupam Kher as Prakash Rathod, Commissioner of Mumbai Police
  • Naseeruddin Shah as "the common man"
  • Jimmy Sheirgill as Inspector Arif Khan, ATS
  • Aamir Bashir as Inspector Jai Pratap Singh
  • Deepal Shaw as Naina Roy, UTV Journalist
  • Alok Narula as Raj Sharma; Naina Roy's Cameraman
  • Rohitash Gaud as Ikhlaque Ahmed(A terrorist)
  • Kali Prasad Mukherjee as Ibrahim Khan(A terrorist)
  • Mukesh Batt as Khurshid lala(A terrorist)
  • Vijay Bhatia as Mohd. Zaheer(A terrorist)
  • Chetan Pandit as Chief Minister Sunil Nigvekar
  • Rajendra Chawla as Jaishankar Tiwary; Chief Minister's Assistant
  • Gaurav Kapoor as Arjun Khanna (Actor); Special Appearance
  • Virendra Saxena as Officer In-Charge Baburao Patil
  • Snehal Dabi as Shambhu a.k.a. Electric Baba
  • Aayam Mehta as Shankar Patil; Chief Minister's Assistant
  • Apurva Mehrotra as Anuj Sharma; The Hacker
  • Seema Malik as Inspector Jai Pratap Singh's wife
  • Vicky Ahuja as a middleman who supplied RDX
  • Namrata Sawhney as The Common Man's wife; VOICE OVER

Production

From casting to completion, A Wednesday! took about eight months.[6] It was filmed on location around Mumbai in 28 days. The terrorist's ‘workstation’ was an actual under-construction 25-story building; it was chosen from 50 other such buildings for its clear view of the Mumbai skyline. Since the building had no elevators, a trolley lift was installed; Shah walked up the 25 floors every day.[7] Shah mentioned in an interview that it was the first film of his career where he did not change a single word. He was first offered Kher's role.[8]
Though a work of fiction,[3] the script was inspired by the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings. In fact, the incidents that followed the bombings were used as details in the plot.[6]
After finishing the script, Pandey sent it to Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah, who were his only choice for the two principal characters. Once both accepted the roles, he approached the producer Anjum Rizvi who liked the subject and the casting. Meanwhile, UTV Motion Pictures heard of the project, took it on, and bought the film’s rights from Rizvi and Pandey.[6]

Release

The release was delayed because UTV's own production, Mumbai Meri Jaan (2008), also based on the Mumbai train serial blasts, was scheduled for an August release. Wednesday! was released in September[6] alongside Hijack and Santosh Sivan's Tahaan.

Reception

A Wednesday! received critical acclaim with many comparing it to the movies of the Die Hard series.[9][10] In a Tehelka review, while commending Neeraj Pandey for a tightly scripted film, "red herrings, finely etched characters", also noted "(for the film), the real Anupam Kher, whom we met in Saransh, and the real Naseeruddin Shah, whom we knew from Bazaar and Mandi and Sparsh, both show up."[11] The Times of India 's critic Nikhat Kazmi called the movie "an intelligent diatribe against terrorism, refreshingly packaged as a racy thriller, reminiscent of the Die Hard Series."[10] Rony D'Costa of Box Office India gave it 3 stars out of 5, stating "it will take just 100 minutes of your time but will give you an exciting & enriching movie going experience. A good watch, any day of the week."[12]
Noted critic Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave 4 out of 5 stars, and a positive review saying, "It's difficult to explain just how good A Wednesday is without giving away too much about the film. Because believe me, it's a film best seen without any impressions. It's a film whose charm lies in its unraveling".[9] The Economic Times's critic, Gaurav Malani, wrote, "A Wednesday is one of those rare variety films about which one can't discuss much despite a strong desire for it could hamper your viewing experience as an unappraised audience. It's a film one wants to rave liberally about but even then you can't conveniently converse on the instances of acclaim since those are the moments of surreptitious surprise held in reserve by the director. It's the kind of film that is discussed in detail once it acquires the cult status." He also gave it 4 stars out of 5.[13]
Anupama Chopra of NDTV thought the film to be a "provocative theatre. Its message is urgent and relevant but also disturbing and dangerous." She also felt what it suggested was "implausible".[14]

Box office

A Wednesday! grossed around Rs 120 million in India.[1] The film had a distributor share of Rs44,600,000 in India.[15] It gave satisfying results to the producers, distributors and exhibitors.[16]

Awards and nominations

National Awards

  • Won Indira Gandhi for Best Debut Film of a Director - Neeraj Pandey

Star Screen Awards

Filmfare Awards

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Remakes

The film was remade into Tamil and Telugu. The Tamil version had Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal in lead roles, while the Telugu version had Kamal Haasan and Venkatesh in the lead.
UTV sold the rights of the film to Asia Media and Gemini Media, which remade it into A Common Man, starring Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross.[18]

References

A Wednesday!
A Wednesday Poster.JPG
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Produced by Ronnie Screwvala
Shital Bhatia
Anjum Rizvi
Written by Neeraj Pandey
Starring Anupam Kher
Naseeruddin Shah
Jimmy Sheirgill
Deepal Shaw
Aamir Bashir
Music by Sanjoy Chowdhury
Cinematography Fuwad Khan
Edited by Shree Narayan Singh
Production
company
Friday Filmworks
Anjum Rizvi Film Company
Distributed by UTV Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 5 September 2008
Running time
103 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget 50 million (equivalent to 99 million or US$1.5 million in 2017)
Box office 120 million (equivalent to 240 million or US$3.5 million in 2017)
(domestic nett. gross)[1]
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Film cast:Naseruddin ShahAnupam KherJimmy SheirgillAamir BashirDeepal ShawGaurav KapoorChetan PanditVirendra SaxenaSnehal DhabiKali Prasad MukherjeeRohitash GaudMukesh BhattRajendra ChawlaVijay BhatiaParag TyagiAayam MehtaAlok NarulaParthSeema MalikVicky Ahuja
Singer:Javed Ali, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Shaan, Tochi
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Music Director:Sanjoy Chowdhary
Film Director:Neeraj Pandey
Film Producer:Anjum RizviRonnie ScrewvalaShital Bhatia
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