| Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty | |
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| Directed by | A. R. Murugadoss |
| Written by | A. R. Murugadoss |
| Based on | Thuppakki by A. R. Murugadoss |
| Produced by | Aruna Bhatia Vipul Amrutlal Shah |
| Starring | Akshay Kumar Sonakshi Sinha Freddy Daruwala Sumeet Raghavan |
| Cinematography | Natarajan Subramaniam |
| Edited by | Amitabh Shukla |
| Music by | Songs: Pritam Guest Composition: Kaushik Dutta Background Score: Prasad Sashte |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Reliance Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 161 minutes[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹50 crore[2] |
| Box office | est. ₹178.4 crore[2] |
Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss, starring Akshay Kumar as an army officer. It also stars Sonakshi Sinha, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghavan and Govinda in a special appearance. It is an official remake of Murugadoss' own 2012 Tamil film Thuppakki and follows an Indian Army officer who arrives in Mumbai on vacation and sets out to hunt down the terrorist leader of a sleeper cell network and deactivate the sleeper cells operating under his command.
Kumar revealed that the story of Holiday was signed by his production company Hari Om Entertainment after listening to the first action sequence of the film by Murugadoss even before the script was fully written. He let Murugadoss make the film in Tamil as Thuppakki due to date issues, and later announced its remake.[3] Production commenced in 2013 with the initial working title Pistol under the banner of Hari Om Entertainment and Sunshine Pictures.
The film was released worldwide on 6 June 2014. Made on a budget of ₹500 million,[4] The film received generally positive reviews from the critics, particularly for Kumar's performance, writing and action sequences. It proved to be one of the top grossing Bollywood film of 2014.[5][6] with worldwide earnings of over ₹178.4 crore.[7]
At Filmfare Award, Kumar was nominated for Best Actor.
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- ^ a b "Holiday – Movie – Box Office India". Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
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- ^ "Post Toilet – Ek Prem Katha, is Akshay Kumar the new darling of the distributors? : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. 22 August 2017.
- ^ Boxoffice Archived 24 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Box Office India.com (6 June 2014). Retrieved 25 May 2015.