Blue (2009 film)

Blue
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anthony D'Souza
Written by	Story and Screenplay: Anthony D'Souza Jasmine M. D'Souza Dialogues: Mayur Puri
Produced by	Dhilin Mehta
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Akshay Kumar Lara Dutta Katrina Kaif Zayed Khan Rahul Dev
Cinematography	Laxman Utekar
Edited by	Shyam Salgaonkar
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Production company	Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited
Distributed by	Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited
Release date	16 October 2009 (2009-10-16)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹750 million[1]
Box office	₹639 million[2]

Blue is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film co-written and directed by Anthony D'Souza, and produced by Dhilin Mehta under Shree Astavinayak Cine Vision Limited. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, and Rahul Dev. Katrina Kaif and Kabir Bedi appear in cameo appearances. Loosely based on the Hollywood film Into the Blue (2005) and its sequel Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009), it explores a diver, haunted by his past, who must confront it in order to save his younger brother and girlfriend from a gangster, while his employer and good friend coaxes him to recover a lost, sunken treasure which he refuses to.

Blue was released during the Diwali festival on 16 October 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics. During the time of release, it was the most expensive Indian film made until then, produced with a budget of more than $21 million.^[3] Featuring music composed by A.R. Rahman, Blue failed to recover its high budget from the box office.^[1]

Since the launch of Shree Astavinayak Cine Vision Limited in 2003-04, this is the first home production from the company and the first in as many as five years to credit Mehta as a producer by name rather than the company itself; in 2010, the custom was followed up in Dabangg, with Golmaal 3 being the third and last film to do so.