A Wednesday

A Wednesday!
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Neeraj Pandey
Produced by	Ronnie Screwvala Shital Bhatia Anjum Rizvi
Screenplay by	Neeraj Pandey
Story by	Neeraj Pandey
Starring	Anupam Kher Naseeruddin Shah Jimmy Shergill Deepal Shaw Aamir Bashir
Music by	Sanjoy Chowdhury
Cinematography	Fuwad Khan
Edited by	Shree Narayan Singh
Production company	Friday Filmworks Anjum Rizvi Film Company
Distributed by	UTV Motion Pictures
Release date	5 September 2008
Running time	103 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹50 million (equivalent to ₹98 million or US$1.4 million in 2016)
Box office	₹120 million (equivalent to ₹230 million or US$3.5 million in 2016) (domestic nett. gross)

A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher. Set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday, the film depicts an about-to-retire police commissioner (Anupam Kher) narrating a sequence of events that unfolded on a particular Wednesday. There does not exist any written record. The awareness of the incident exists only in his mind and in those of several individuals who were involved, willingly and unwillingly, and how those events affected the lives of all the concerned people. It was the inspiration for Tamil movie Unnaipol Oruvan , Telugu movie Eeenadu, with Kamal Hassan in the role played by Naseeruddin Shah in the original and Mohanlal and Daggubati Venkatesh playing the role acted by Anupam Kher in the original in Tamil and Telugu respectively and also Hollywood movie A Common Man (film). Directed by Chandran Rutnam with actor Ben Kingsley portraying the role played by Nasseruddin Shah and Ben Cross portraying the role played by Anupam Kher.

The film, made at a small budget, was a sleeper hit at the box office grossing over Rs. 340 million worldwide. Despite its low promotion, it was a box office success due to critical acclaim and positive word-of-mouth. Box Office India declared it a hit. Critics praised the movie for its effective storyline and its twist ending. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards.