A Wednesday! (2008)

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A Wednesday! Movie Details, News and Trailer :
Both are institutions of acting. After a hiatus of 19 years, thespian Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher have come together for UTV’s A Wednesday.

Naseer and Anupam started their careers in two separate decades. While Naseer become an actor to reckon with Nishant in 1975, Anupam Kher took a couple of years to make it to the marquee with Saransh in 1984. Both eyed the same kind of roles and there was almost a healthy rivalry between the friends.

They acted together Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983) but Anupam’s entire track was deleted, and the film went on to become a cult film for Naseer.

Anupam, after starring in 31 films, and Naseer, after starring in 55 films, came together in Subhash Ghai’s Karma (1986), followed by Pestonjee, as two friends set in a Parsi milieu in 1988, and then in Rajiv Rai’s Tridev (1989).

Over 146 films, Naseer become the king of parallel cinema with landmark films like Manthan, Bhumika, Aakrosh, Bazaar, Mandi, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro. He tried his hand at popular cinema in films like Masoom, Umrao Jaan, Sarfarosh but his heart remained in roles with an edge.

Over 285 films, Anupam Kher after beginning his career with alternative cinema become a mainstream father and uncle for all Rajshri, Yash Raj and Karan Johar films, a father with a smile and a young attitude for all the glossy flicks.

Finally after 19 years, both of them have liked a script together. In fact one of the main factor for both of them coming together was that the ‘other’ was working in it.

While Naseer plays a cold, calculative terrorist who will not stop at anything, Anupam Kher plays a police commissioner who has to stop the terrorist at all cost.

It was also for the first time in 23 years that Naseer travelled by a Mumbai local train for a scene in A Wednesday. The last time he had boarded a Mumbai local was for Kundan Shah’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro.

“We had booked one entire compartment of a CST-Kalyan bound train to shoot the sequence which was to be shot with Naseerji,” reveals A Wednesday director Neeraj Pandey. “He was very excited while shooting for the sequence because he had boarded the train after so many years.”

A Wednesday traces the journey of a police commissioner fighting a threat from a terrorist and trying to locate bombs planted across Mumbai.

Naseeruddin, the terrorist, travels in Mumbai local transport — trains, buses, autos… and has planted bombs across the city in various undisclosed locations.

Anupam Kher had to spend three days with Rakesh Maria and two days with Javed Ahmed to get into the skin of his character for his forthcoming film A Wednesday. Both Rakesh Maria and Javed Ahmed were in charge of investigating the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

To make his character as realistic as possible, Anupam Kher decided to take reference from top cops and spent time with both Rakesh Maria and Javed Ahmed to learn certain nuances like how to react in certain situations and the right body language.

Complete movie details, including cast details, crew and storyline are following

Movie Name : A Wednesday!
Also Known As : A Wednesday
Release Date : 05 September 2008
Genre : Drama / Action / Crime
Director : Neeraj Pandey
Producers : Ronnie Screwvala, Shital Bhatia, Anjum Rizvi
Banners : Friday Filmworks, Anjum Rizvi Film Company
Presenter : UTV Motion Pictures
Language : Hindi
Story & Screenplay Writer : Neeraj Pandey
Cinematographer : Fuwad Khan
Editor : Shree Narayan Singh
Executive Producer : BL. Gautam
Co-producers : Zarina Mehta, Deven Khote, Siddharth Roy Kapur
Associate Producers : Alpana Mishra, Usha Balram
Art Director : Sunil Nigvekar
Action Director : Sham Kaushal
Sound Designer : Rakesh Ranjan
Costume Designers : Riyaz, Ali R Merchant
Publicity Designer : Glimpse
Background Sound : Sanjoy Chowdhury
Cast :
Naseruddin Shah as The Threst
Anupam Kher as Prakash Rathod
Jimmy Shergill as Arif Khan
Aamir Bashir as Jai Pratap Singh
Deepal Shaw as Naina Roy
Chetan Pandit as Chief Minister
Virendra Saxena as Baburao Palit
Gaurav Kapoor as Ajay Kapoor
Snehal Dhabi as Shambhu
Kali Prasad Mukherjee as Ibrahim Khan
Rohitash Gaud as Ikhlaque Ahmed
Mukesh Bhatt as Khurshid Lala
Vijay Bhatia as Mohd. Zaheer
Parag Tyagi as Aakash Wadhkar
Aayam Mehta as Shankar Patil
Rajendra Chawla as Jaishankar Tiwary
Alok Narula as Raj Sharma
Parth as Anuj Sharma
Seema Malik as Priya Singh
Synopsis :

‘A Wednesday!’ tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2 and 6 pm on a particular Wednesday – events which do not exist in any record but which deeply affect the lives of those involved.

Prakash Rathod, Commissioner of Police, Mumbai (played by Mr. Anupam Kher), gets a call demanding the release of four extremely dangerous militants within the next four hours, in lieu of information on bombs that the man has planted in various parts of the city. At first, Prakash suspects it to be a crank call but his doubts are dispelled once he actually finds a bomb planted in the police station right opposite his Police Headquarters.

Now Prakash Rathod is in a real dilemma. Should he release the militants? Militants who have been caught at the cost of lives of police officers in the first place? Militants who are responsible for unaccountable damage to civilian lives and property? Militants who will cause further damage in the coming years, if let go scott free? Or should he just think of all the innocent people who will die today if he decides not to let them go?

Prakash Rathod is not a man who would give up so easily. He gets a team of his best men together and taps all his resources – he was going to leave no stone unturned in his mission to track down the man. He even hires a 17 year old hacker to help his team trace the calls and hence the location of this man.

Meanwhile, he comes across Naina Roy, a wannabe-something news channel reporter (played by Ms Deepal Shaw) who also has been tipped off by an anonymous caller. Time passes without any concrete results on the identity of the caller. As a backup plan, he puts two of his best men, Arif and Jai (played by Jimmy Sheirgill and Amir Bashir respectively) to hand over the four militants. It is then that events take a bizarre turn.

Suddenly, everything becomes a huge question mark. Who is this man? What is his identity? What are his intentions and what is the motive behind them? The caller (played by Mr. Naseeruddin Shah) then reveals his true identity and answers these questions, raising some more in the process...
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Video length : 02:04 min.
Video resolution : 320X240
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