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| Amitabh Bachchan | ... | Pandit Omkarnath Dhar | |
| Farhan Akhtar | ... | Daanish Ali | |
| Aditi Rao Hydari | ... | Ruhana Ali | |
| Manav Kaul | ... | Yazaad Qureshi | |
| Neil Nitin Mukesh | ... | Wazir | |
| John Abraham | ... | S.P | |
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Anjum Sharma | ... | Sartaj |
| Prakash Belawadi | ... | DCP | |
| Murli Sharma | ... | Mahesh | |
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Nasir Khan | ... | Rameez (as Nassir Quazi) |
| Seema Bhargava | ... | Pammi (as Seema Pahwa) | |
| Nishigandha Wad | ... | Ruhana's Mother (as Dr. Nishigandha Wad) | |
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Saachi Tiwari | ... | Noorie |
| Vaidehi Parshurami | ... | Nina | |
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Vivekanand Singh | ||
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'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them. Written by Abhijat Joshi
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$586,028, 10 January 2016, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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Written by A.M. Turaz
Produced by Prashant Pillai
Performed by Gagan Baderiya & Prashant Pillai
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Farhan Akthar would refer to Amitabh Bachchan as Panditji even after shoot,Amitabh Bachchan is refereed as Panditji in the film by everyone. See more »Goofs
When you connect a USB to a LED TV it goes through options of video and doesn't directly play the video as shown in the film. See more »Quotes
Pandit Omkarnath Dhar: Khel Khel While you playfully keep playing this game, you will learn how this game is played; The wins and losses you have when you take chances, will teach you when you need to lose so that you can win; No one follows the code of conduct, deception is the only rule.See more »
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When the story writer comes out in press and says that the screenplay has been 20 years in the making with him, then one has a solemn right to expect some sort of competency in movie's storyline. But Wazir's script seems to have been conjured up over a vomit-strewn napkin as one seeks to gain a handle over a bad hangover. It is such a shame. The premise is explosive, intense and engaging. Yet failure to exercise grey cells by the so-called professionals engaged in making this film results in a movie that comes across as amateurish albeit visually competent. The director seems to have given up and just focused on wrapping it all up without spilling the feast. A movie apparently about a foxy game of chess is not even interesting enough to merit comparisons with Chinese-checkers. VC ought to be ashamed at having wasting such an interesting premise and idea with this god-awful excuse for a motion picture. Absolute waste. Whatever rating I have assigned to it has been purely for competent acting and high production values particularly in photography. As far as story and screenplay is concerned I ought to demand some rating credit out of VCs pocket for wasting my time.
Ridiculous.