A Wednesday! (2008) on Netflix
A caller tells Mumbai's retiring police commissioner, Prakash Rathod, that five bombs are hidden across Mumbai and will go off unless four terrorists are freed. Officers race to trace him.
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Plot summary
Prakash Rathod, commissioner of the Mumbai police, is a day away from retirement when he recalls the case that has stayed with him. A man carries a travel bag into the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station and leaves it in the restroom of a police station facing the Mumbai Police headquarters. From the rooftop of a building under construction, equipped with phones and SIM cards, he calls Rathod to say five bombs are hidden around Mumbai and will explode together within four hours unless four terrorists in custody are released. Rathod sets his team to tracing the call. The caller also tips off television reporter Naina Roy. Officers Arif and Jai round up the four prisoners, while a young hacker named Anuj works to find the caller's location.
Cast
- Gaurav Kapooras Ajay Khanna
- Seema Malikas Anu
- Alok Narulaas Raj Sharma (Cameraman)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Wednesday! (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The anonymous caller's base in A Wednesday! was filmed in a real under-construction 25-storey Mumbai building, picked from 50 such buildings for its clear view of the skyline. With no elevators in the building, a trolley lift was installed and Naseeruddin Shah walked up all 25 floors every day.
SPOILER
Though A Wednesday! is fiction, its script was inspired by the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, and the incidents that followed those bombings were used as details in the plot.- Naseeruddin Shah said A Wednesday! was the first film of his career in which he did not change a single word of the script.
- Sanjoy Chowdhury's soundtrack for A Wednesday! contains six songs, none of which was featured in the film itself.
