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Title: Wazir (2016)
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4 nominations.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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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Nasirr 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 Dhar | |
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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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Written by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Produced by Shantanu Moitra
Performed by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal
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This was the 3rd movie Amitabh Bachchan played a character without at least a limb. He played a one-armed army in both Food, Clothing and Shelter (1974) and Swear on India (1999). In this movie he has no legs. See more »Goofs
When Pandit Dhar was driving to go to Kashmir Daanish was calling him and Pandit was disconnecting the call, the phone he used had Android Kitkat styled Dialler but before the explosion when it was explained later on the phone Pandit used had Android Lollipop styled Dialler. 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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Tere BinWritten by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Produced by Shantanu Moitra
Performed by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal
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8 January 2016 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$586,028, 10 January 2016Gross USA:
$1,124,045Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$5,633,588Company Credits
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I'm a chess fan (not a good player however).
One day, while I was playing chess, a thought came into my mind, "What if the game I'm playing is happening for real somewhere?" Then it was obvious, I searched for the movies with similar theme but couldn't get one. The best I could find was "The Seventh Seal" by Ingmar Bergman which was nowhere near to the one in my mind.
I knew nothing about 'WAZIR' before watching, except it was a chess movie. I'm a chess fan, so, I would have never missed this movie no matter good or bad. I wasn't expecting more either. But, after watching it, my mind was completely blown away. My long wait has been fulfilled. THIS is the best chess movie I've ever seen.
At some points, I felt errors in storytelling (wished they hadn't done it this way). But those were nothing compared to the whole package. The performances were good. The whole script is excellent. Technically, it felt real, which is also a good thing. I'm sure this movie will leave a mark in Bollywood, with its significance growing over time.
This movie came as a surprise which made me experience that, if a movie comes as a surprise, that movie is going to be in your best movies list.
Thanks for the whole team of WAZIR for delivering us this movie. Much appreciated.