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Banner | Bohra Bros, AKFPL Productions |
Director | Hansal Mehta |
Writer | Sameer Gautam Singh, Hansal Mehta |
Producer | Anurag Kashyap, Sunil Kumar Bohra, Guneet Monga, Shailesh R. Singh |
Music Director | Karan Kulkarni |
Cinematography | Anuj Dhawan |
Film Editing | Apurva Asrani |
Art Director | Rabiul Sarkar |
Camera Operator | |
Assistant Cameramen | |
Playback Singers | Virag Mishra |
Character | Actor/Actress |
Shahid Azmi | Rajkummar Rao |
Mariam | Prabhleen Sandhu |
Arif | Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub |
Ammi | Baljinder Kaur |
Maqbool Menon | Tigmanshu Dhulia |
War saab | Kay Kay Menon |
Prosecutor More | Vipin Sharma |
Prosecutor Tambe | Shalini Vatsa |
Rafique | Vinod Rawat |
Commander at camp | Suvinder Pal |
Zaheer Sheikh | Pawan Kumar |
Fahim Khan | Vivek Ghamande |
Judge | Paritosh Sand |
Omar Sheikh | Prabal Panjabi |
Professor Saxena | Yusuf Husain |
Mukesh Chhabra | |
Rakesh Bhai | Jayant Gadekar |
Mariam | Prabhleen Sandhu |
Tariq Azmi | Dharmendra Singh |
Ramanathan | Akash Sinha |
Young Khalid | Vaibhav Vishant |
The film opens with murder of Shahid Azmi (Rajkummar Rao) and goes into flashback to the violence during the Bombay Riots, when Shahid witnesses cold-blooded murders and in anger runs away to Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where he spends a brief period at a militant training camp, but soon returns. In Mumbai, he is arrested under the TADA, for an alleged conspiracy to assassinate some politicians. He is brutally tortured by police and forced to admit the crime, after which is spends seven years at Tihar Jail in New Delhi. During his stay at Tihar Jail, he's been tried to be brainwashed by Omar Sheikh (Prabal Panjabi). But another fellow jail mate War Saab (K K Menon) inspires him to start his college education. Once he was acquitted of the charges, he went ahead to study law in Mumbai. After receiving his law degree, Shahid works with lawyer Majeed Memon (Tigmanshu Dhulia) for some months, before starting his career as an independent lawyer with the financial support of his elder brother Arif (Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub). During this process he meets Mariam (Prabhleen Sandhu) a Muslim divorcee and marries her. Shahid soon starts picking up cases of Muslims charged under the POTA. He fights many cases pro bono in consultation with NGOs. Shahid gets his first major success as a defense lawyer, when Arif Paanwala, who was arrested under POTA in 2002 Mumbai bus bombing, was acquitted due to lack of evidence by the court. Shahid then represents the accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul, the 2006 Malegaon bombings case. He then got criticized for supporting terrorists and started getting threatening calls due to which his family life also gets disturbed. On one occasion Shahid's face is blackened by assailants outside the court room. While defending Faheem Ansari in the 2008 Mumbai attacks case, he gets shot by four armed gunmen in his own office and dies on the spot. Later, Ansari is shown to be acquitted of all the charges by the Supreme Court of India due to lack of evidence. |
Release Date | 18-October-2013 |
Budget | ₹8 million (US$130,000) |
Revenue | ₹40 million (US$670,000) |
Apsara Film Producers Guild Awards (2014): Special Awards: Won: 1st KA Abbas Honor for Film with Outstanding Social Sensitivity in 2013 - Hansal Mehta (director), UTV Spotboy, Bohra Bros Productions Apsara Award: Nominated: Best Story - Sameer Gautam Singh, Hansal Mehta Best Actor - Rajkummar Rao Best Female Debut - Prabhleen Sandhu Bombay International Film Festival (2012): India Gold Silver Gateway: Won: Hansal Mehta Filmfare Awards (2014): Critics' Awards: Won: Best Actor - Rajkummar Rao Technical Award: Nominated: Best Dialogue - Sameer Gautam Singh National Film Awards, India (2014): Golden Lotus Award: Won: Best Direction - Hansal Mehta Silver Lotus Award: Won: Best Actor - Rajkummar Rao New York Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival (2013): Festival Award: Won: Best Director - Hansal Mehta (director), Bohra Bros Production Pvt. Screen Weekly Awards (2014): Won: Best Screenplay - Sameer Gautam Singh, Hansal Mehta, Apurva Asrani Best Dialogue - Sameer Gautam Singh Nominated: Best Story - Sameer Gautam Singh, Hansal Mehta Best Director - Hansal Mehta (director), UTV Spotboy, Bohra Bros Productions Best Actor - Rajkummar Rao (actor), UTV Spotboy, Bohra Bros Productions Zee Cine Awards (2014): Critics Choice Award: Won: Zee Anmol Award - Hansal Mehta (director), UTV Spotboy, Bohra Bros Productions |
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