| A Wednesday | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Neeraj Pandey |
| Written by | Neeraj Pandey |
| Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala Shital Bhatia Anjum Rizvi |
| Starring | Naseeruddin Shah Anupam Kher Jimmy Sheirgill Aamir Bashir Deepal Shaw |
| Cinematography | Fuwad Khan |
| Edited by | Shree Narayan Singh |
| Music by | Sanjoy Chowdhury |
Production companies | Friday Filmworks Anjum Rizvi Film Company |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 99 minutes[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹12 crore[2] |
A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Anjum Rizvi and Shital Bhatia under UTV Motion Pictures and Friday Filmworks.[3] The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, and is set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday.[4] The film depicts a confrontation between a police commissioner and an anonymous caller who threatens to detonate bombs throughout Mumbai if four terrorists are not freed from police custody.
The film was released on 5 September 2008. It was critically acclaimed widespread and emerged as a commercial success.[5] It was also granted tax exemption in the state of Maharashtra.[6] Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards. It went on to be remade in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously as Unnaipol Oruvan and Eenadu (both 2009), and as an English-language Sri Lankan film A Common Man (2013).
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- ^ "'A Wednesday' tax-free in Maharashtra". Bollywood Hungama. 18 October 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2008.