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Director:

Neeraj Pandey

Writers:

Irshad Kamil (lyrics)
Neeraj Pandey (screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

5 September 2008 (India) more

Genre:

Drama | Thriller more

Plot:

A man calls up the Mumbai police, and tells them he has placed five different bombs in the city -- all set to go off in some time... more | full synopsis

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Awards:

4 wins & 13 nominations more

User Comments:

A Must See more (90 total)


Cast

  (Credited cast)
Anupam Kher ... Prakash Rathod - Commissioner of Police
Naseeruddin Shah ... The common man
Jimmy Shergill ... Arif Khan - ATS Officer
Deepal Shaw ... Naina Roy - Television Journalist
Aamir Bashir ... Inspector Jai Pratap Singh
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vijay Bhatia ... Mohammmad Zaheer (as Vije Bhatia)
Rajendra Chawla ... Jaishankar Tiwari
Snehal Dabi ... Shambhu 'Electric Baba'
Rohitash Gaud ... Ikhlaque Ahmed
Gaurav Kapoor ... Ajay Khanna - Bollywood actor
Seema Malik ... Anu S. Singh
Aayam Mehta ... Shankar Patil
Kali Prasad Mukherjee ... Ibrahim Khan
Alok Narula ... Raj Sharma
Chetan Pandit ... Chief Minister
Parth ... Anuj Sharma
Veerendra Saxena ... Sub-Inspector Baburao Patil (as Virendra Saxsena)
Parag Tyagi ... Aakash Wadhkar
Jaywant Wadkar ... Policeman
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Additional Details

Runtime:

India:104 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | English

Color:

Color (super 35mm)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

India:UA | UK:15

Filming Locations:

India


Fun Stuff

Quotes:

Anonymous: They've asked this question on a Friday, repeated on Tuesday and I am just replying it on a Wednesday. more

Movie Connections:

Remade as Unnaipol Oruvan (2009) more

Soundtrack:

Nazar Lage Na more


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15 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
A Must See, 8 October 2008
9/10
Author: yogesh-kalyankar from India

There are a few movies that entertain, there are a few movies that give message and then there are a few movies that you can relate to. A Wednesday is definitely one such movie.

The story revolves around an anonymous man (Shah) who calls up the commissioner of police (Kher) and informs him about the bombs that he has placed. Bomb blast is something that I personally am scared of. It had ripped Mumbai in 1993 and then in local train and bus. Only people stood by each other. It followed thru out the country. And what can one common man do? .

The story line is fantastic. Its hard to believe that this is Neeraj Pandey's first movie and he has taken a gigantic leap without including any songs. The movie itself is only one and a half hours - half of what Bollywood movies usually are. Then he has not shown the police administration either as corrupt or the bookish kind of honest. He has probably taken the real view of police department And then the cast. Naseerudding Shah is one actor who can crawl under the skin of any character. Be it the coach in Iqbal or the pirate in The League of Extra-ordinary gentlemen. Then there is Anupam Kher whose acting abilities are still not tapped to the best by any director. These two stalwarts make-up this movie. And this movie does not have him in a stereo typical dads role. Aamir Bashir as Jay and Jimmy Shergill as Arif are just outstanding. Nothing in the movie is out of context. Well-acted, well-directed, well-scripted, well-executed.

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