Mumbai Xpress

Mumbai Xpress
Tamil theatrical release poster
Directed bySingeetam Srinivasa Rao
Written byKamal Haasan
Saurabh Shukla (Hindi dialogues)
Produced byKamal Haasan
Chandrahasan
Starring
CinematographySiddharth Ramaswamy
Edited byAshmith Kunder
Music byIlaiyaraaja
Production
company
Distributed bySahara One Motion Pictures (Hindi)
Release dates
  • 14 April 2005 (2005-04-14) (Tamil)
  • 15 April 2005 (2005-04-15) (Hindi)
Running time
152 minutes (Tamil)
146 minutes (Hindi)
CountryIndia
LanguagesTamil
Hindi
Budget4.50 crore[1]
Box office5.17 crore[1]

Mumbai Xpress is a 2005 Indian black comedy film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and produced by Kamal Haasan. It stars Kamal Haasan himself in the lead role alongside Manisha Koirala. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, while Siddharth Ramaswamy and Ashmith Kunder handled the cinematography and editing. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil and Hindi. This was the first Indian censored movie to be filmed in digital format.

The lead pair, as well as Sharat Saxena, Ramesh Aravind, Hardik Thakar, and Dheena, were retained for the Hindi version of the film; also, Vijay Raaz, Dinesh Lamba, Om Puri, Saurabh Shukla and Pratima Kazmi reprised the roles played by Pasupathy, Vaiyapuri, Nassar, Santhana Bharathi and Kovai Sarala in the Tamil version, respectively.

  1. ^ a b "Mumbai Xpress". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 23 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.