Trailer
Plot summary
In the aftermath of the 1971 war, two boys, Bikram Bose and Bala Bhattacharya, meet Lateef, who trades food for gun smuggling. An army officer wants one of them; Bikram takes his place, Bala returns to free him, and the two flee to Calcutta after Lateef is killed protecting them. As adults they loot coal trains, fighting off their rival Dibakar, and with Kaali Kaka's help they build hospitals and schools. The police bring in Assistant Commissioner Satyajeet Sarkar to arrest them. At a club opening they meet the cabaret dancer Nandita Sengupta, and both fall in love with her.
Cast
- Darshan Gurjaras Young Bikram Bose
- Prasanjit Chatterjeeas Bangali Babu
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gunday (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Ali Abbas Zafar gave Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor a joint pitch in which Kapoor would play Bikram and Singh would play Bala, then switched the roles as a surprise, so Singh played Bikram and Kapoor played Bala.
- Bangladeshis protested on social media over Gunday's opening narration, which says Bangladesh was created through the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war and that India's participation brought its independence, and demanded the production house apologise for the inaccuracy.
- After Facebook groups were formed to boycott and downvote Gunday, it became the lowest-rated film on IMDb at the time of its release, with 1.4/10 from more than 44,000 votes, 91% of them one star.
- Ali Abbas Zafar's father, a 1971 war veteran, told him stories of the war, its immigration and the illegal coal trade in Calcutta, where unemployed youths robbed coal trains, and Zafar used 1970s and 1980s coal as a plot device.
- While filming a song sequence for Gunday, Ranveer Singh fell from a height and suffered a gash on his cheek; he was rushed to the nearest hospital and needed stitches.
- The cabaret number "Aslaam-E-Ishqum", featuring Priyanka Chopra, was shot over six days in early July on a set in Mumbai modelled on Trinka's, a once-popular Kolkata bar where cabaret troupes from Russia and Europe performed.
- Gunday was not released in Pakistan, where it was highly awaited, after that country stopped giving no-objection certificates to Indian films in early 2014 due to pending legislative changes.
