Shahid (film)
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| Directed by | Hansal Mehta |
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Anurag Kashyap Sunil Bohra Ronnie Screwvala Siddharth Roy Kapur Shailesh R Singh Alok Arbind Thakur |
| Written by |
Sameer Gautam Singh Apurva Asrani |
| Based on | Shahid Azmi |
| Starring |
Rajkumar Rao Tigmanshu Dhulia K K Menon Prabhleen Sandhu Prabal Panjabi |
| Music by | Karan Kulkarni |
| Cinematography | Anuj Dhawan |
| Edited by | Apurva Asrani |
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| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
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123 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹63.5 million (equivalent to ₹92 million or US$1.4 million in 2016) |
| Box office | ₹400 million (equivalent to ₹580 million or US$8.6 million in 2016) (Worldwide) |
Shahid is a 2013 Indian Hindi biographical film directed by Hansal Mehta and produced by Anurag Kashyap. It is based on the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who was assassinated in 2010 in Mumbai.
The film had its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival's 'City to City' programme in September 2012.Shahid was selected for distribution by UTV Motion Pictures and released on 18 October 2013. It received positive reviews from critics, and considering its budget the film had commercial success at the box office. It won the National Film Award for Best Actor and Best Director at the 61st National Film Awards ceremony.
The real life Shahid Azmi had defended the 2004 film Black Friday in the courts while it was languishing with the censor board for its controversial content. Anurag Kashyap, the director of Black Friday, went on to co-produce Shahid.
The film opens with murder of Shahid Azmi (Rajkummar Rao) and goes into flashback to the violence during the Bombay Riots. There Shahid witnesses cold-blooded murders and in anger runs away to Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where he spends a brief period at a militant training camp. He soon returns. In Mumbai, he is arrested under the TADA, for an alleged conspiracy to assassinate some politicians. He is brutally tortured by police and forced to admit the crime, after which he spends seven years at Tihar Jail in New Delhi. During his stay at Tihar Jail, he's tried to be brainwashed by Omar Sheikh (Prabal Panjabi). But another fellow jail mate War Saab (K K Menon) inspires him to start his college education. Once he is acquitted of the charges, he goes ahead to study law in Mumbai.
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