City of Revenge (2015)

An innocent man turns brutal when his family gets killed in a bank robbery and one of the perpetrators escapes. 15 years later, he begins his deadly game of vengeance.

Director:

Sriram Raghavan

Writers:

Massimo Carlotto (story), Sriram Raghavan (screenplay and dialogue)

Stars:

Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yami Gautam

Top Rated Indian Movies #222 | 4 wins & 13 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Varun Dhawan	...	Raghav
Nawazuddin Siddiqui	...	Liak Tungekar
Yami Gautam	...	Misha
Huma Qureshi	...	Jhimli
Neel Tyagi	...	Robin
Vinay Pathak	...	Harman
Radhika Apte	...	Kanchan / Koko
Pratima Kazmi	...	Liak's Mother (as Pratima Kannan)
Divya Dutta	...	Shobha
Kumud Mishra	...	Govind Mishra
Ashwini Kalsekar	...	Detective R. Joshi
Murli Sharma	...	Michael
Gopal K. Singh	...	Sub Inspector Khanolkar (as Gopal Singh)
Zakir Hussain	...	Patil
Avishek Lama	...	Commercial Model

Storyline

A young man (Raghu) wants revenge from the people who killed his wife and son in a bank robbery.There are two suspects in this case ,one escapes with the money and the other gets caught by the cops and is sentenced 20 years in jail. Fifteen years later he is suffering from cancer and he has only a year to live, so he requests Raghu to forgive his rest of the sentenced and let him get out from the jail. Raghu accepts his apology only on one condition that he names his partner. So after 15 years will Raghu be able to find the other suspect who destroyed his life? Will he punish him and take his 15 years old revenge?

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Plot Keywords:

revenge | bank robbery | cancer | music video during credits | carpentry | 

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Taglines:

Don't Miss the beginning.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

20 February 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

City of Revenge

Box Office

Budget:

INR250,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$227,759, 22 February 2015

Gross USA:

$409,166

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$409,166

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eros International, Maddock Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos DTS

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Varun Dhawan is named Raghu (Raghav) in the film. Raghu was also the name of Sanjay Dutt in the 1999 film Vaastav, who also played a character with shades of grey aka the anti-hero.

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Goofs

When Raghav is speaking to Harman in his house, the wall of the house, which is dirty, suddenly becomes clean.

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Quotes

Raghu: You are concerned about the lives of criminals, but what about the people whose lives they ruined?

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Crazy Credits

The title of the film appears in the beginning and the end of the film.

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Alternate Versions

The UA rated version of the film doesn't contain following scenes: Jhimil's intro song, her rape, one hammer hitting scene, Koko's bedroom stripping scene, lovemaking scene of Liak, kiss between Raghu and Shobha, along with few cuts in audio as well.

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Connections

Features Cocktail (2012)

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Soundtracks

Jeena Jeena Remix
Performed by Atif Aslam
Flute & Glockenspiel Shirish Malhotra
Programmed by Hyasinth Dsouza

User Reviews

The streets of crime can also lead sometimes to empathy- this strong message has been given by this matured movie.

#Badlapur : A Sriram Raghvan movie Badlapur, starring Varun Dhawan & Nawazuddin Sidiquie, has been released. A revenge saga of Raghu, who's wife and son has been killed by Layak during the bank robbery in Pune, in presence of his partner. His partner ran away, and Layak got arrested. Court gives him 20 years punishment in jail. But, because of his illness, court gives order to bail him. Meanwhile, during these years, his partner never caught by police. He is so set with his wife and owning a restaurant. When Raghu got news of him, he takes revenge from the partner and his wife. Then one interesting character of Jhimlee is also there, who is a girlfriend of Layak. Layak loves her, as much as she does. What will Raghu do to take his revenge from these people, to know that you have to watch this. The story is not new, but the presentation was good. The first robbery scene was taken in just a long shot. Then when Varun saw his dead son, the dance of Huma, the coffee shop scene of Varun & Yami, the lift scene just before the interval, the raining scenes, the climax scene where Nawaz fights with Varun in his room containing the toys, photos of his son and wife & many more are fabulous scenes of this film. Dialogues and screenplay are good enough to engage the audience. Sriram has directed this film brilliantly. He chooses the best cast ever. Varun gave a superb performance. This film can be counted in his best movies in the future. Nawaz gave as usual, Faizal type performance. Whenever he tries to do comedy, the audience gives appreciation. Huma gave such a fantastic performance in her fantastic role. Divya Dutta is as usual. Vinay Pathak is too good. His expressions are so real. Radhika also gave a nice performance. But, my favorite Yami once again fail to give more than 10 minutes performance. What the hell is going with the directors! This film is different from the other revenge saga, because there is no violence except few scenes. Women are also the part of the story, and which can give a thought to the viewers. Music is just outstanding, but, only Jee Karda fits to the taste. It is the story of badman to good man & good man to the bad one. The streets of crime can also lead sometimes to empathy. This is the story of a man becoming the beast and the beast becoming the man. Go for it.