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Directed by | Anthony Maras |
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Based on | 2008 Mumbai Attacks |
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Cinematography | Nick Remy Matthews |
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Music by | Volker Bertelmann |
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Running time | 125 minutes[1] |
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Budget | $17.3 million (A$25 million)[2] |
Box office | $21.1 million (A$31.5 million)[3] |
Hotel Mumbai is a 2018 independent action thriller film[4][5][6] directed by Anthony Maras and co-written by Maras and John Collee. An Indian-Australian-American co-production, it is inspired by the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai[7][8] about the 2008 Mumbai attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India. The film stars Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Jason Isaacs, Suhail Nayyar, Nagesh Bhosle, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2018, and had its Australian premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on 10 October 2018. The film was released in Australia and the United States on 14 and 22 March 2019, respectively, and in India on 29 November 2019.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).I must admit: this skilled, historical action film was one of the toughest, most disquieting sits I can remember in a while—tougher than Paul Greengrass' 'July 22' and on par with the same filmmaker's masterful 'United 93.'
Hotel Mumbai is a shockingly violent action thriller—Die Hard on steroids—except the events it depicts are real.
THE 2008 Mumbai terror attacks resulted in 174 deaths and more than 300 wounded, which might leave you rather queasy about finding its skilful adaptation here — into a nail-biting action thriller — quite so enjoyable.