Madras Cafe

Madras Cafe
Theatrical release poster
Directed byShoojit Sircar
Written byStory and Screenplay:
Somnath Dey
Shubendu Bhattacharya
Dialogues:
Juhi Chaturvedi
Tushar Jain
Produced byJohn Abraham[1]
Ronnie Lahiri[2][3]
Sheel Kumar
Sudhanshu Vats
StarringJohn Abraham
Nargis Fakhri
Raashii Khanna
Siddharth Basu
Prakash Belawadi
CinematographyKamaljeet Negi
Edited byChandrashekhar Prajapati
Music byShantanu Moitra
Production
companies
Distributed byViacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 23 August 2013 (2013-08-23)
Running time
120 minutes[4]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹35 crore[5]
Box office₹67 crore[6]

Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film[7] directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri with newcomer Raashii Khanna in lead roles.[1][8][9] The film is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film deals with an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency R&AW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping force was forced to withdraw.[10][11]

Madras Cafe was released on 23 August 2013. Box Office India stated the film did above average business.[12] The film won the National Film Award for Best Audiography for Nihar Ranjan Samal (location sound recording) and Bishwadeep Chatterjee (sound design) at the 61st National Film Awards.[13]

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  2. ^ "(From left) Actor John Abraham, producer Ronnie Lahiri, | Photos Punjab". Hindustan Times. 23 March 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Chance to realise a reel dream". telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  4. ^ "MADRAS CAFE (15)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Rs 200 crore riding on Bollywood box office this August". Hindustan Times. 31 July 2013. Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Box Office Collection: 'Satyagraha' Affects 'Madras Cafe' and 'Chennai Express' in India – International Business Times". Ibtimes.co.in. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  7. ^ "John Abraham: MADRAS CAFE is a magnum opus political action thriller". Glamsham. 18 June 2013.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference mint was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "Nargis plays foreign journalist in John Abraham's film". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
  10. ^ "Rajiv Gandhi lookalike from 'Madras Cafe' creates ripples". The Times of India. 21 May 1991. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  11. ^ Udita Jhunjhunwala (27 July 2013). "Shoojit Sircar : The neutral order". Livemint. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  12. ^ "Shudh Desi Romance Opens Well Zanjeer Dull". Box Office India. 7 September 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  13. ^ "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.