Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016) on Netflix
NR20162h 13mCrimeDramaThriller
A drug-addicted Mumbai police officer, Raghavan, finds two men murdered at a dealer's place and receives a hammer and an anonymous call. Ramanna surrenders and admits to nine killings.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb7.3/1017,624 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes86%
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Plot summary
Raghavan Amrendra Singh Umbi is a drug-addicted assistant commissioner of police in Mumbai. In 2013 he goes to a drug dealer to buy, and finds the dealer and another man murdered; the next day a hammer and an anonymous call reach him. Two years later a man called Ramanna gives himself up and says he has killed nine people. Officers beat him and he slips away with help from some boys nearby. He goes to his sister Lakshmi's home for food and shelter and quarrels with her husband; after leaving, he comes back and murders the couple and their son. Raghavan's partner is Smrutika "Simi" Naidu, and he beats her; he has also coerced her into three abortions. Ramanna keeps watch on the two of them.
Cast
- Deepali Suryakant Badekaras Simmy's Maid
- Hitesh Daveas Constable Kamble
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016)
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- Nawazuddin Siddiqui's ten-minute monologue as Ramanna had to be shot from several angles without him moving, so he ended up speaking the lines for 300 minutes in the same position; after the shoot he blacked out and could not talk for some time.
- The film is based on Raman Raghav, a serial killer who bludgeoned homeless people in Mumbai in the late 1960s and confessed to 41 murders. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, he had his death sentence changed to life imprisonment and died of kidney failure in Yerawada Central Jail in 1988 after 19 years inside.
- One scene was shot inside the restricted area of Mumbai's airport, which is guarded by snipers under orders to shoot any infiltrator, with Nawazuddin Siddiqui told not to move from his position.
- Vicky Kaushal's cop Raghav is shown snorting cocaine throughout the film; the crew faked the powder with the Indian energy drink Glucon-D and corn starch, and Kaushal practised inhaling it for his scenes.
- Anurag Kashyap wanted to make a period film about Raman Raghav, but after the 2015 commercial failure of his 1960s-set Bombay Velvet he could not find financing, so he abandoned the period concept and co-wrote the film with Vasan Bala set in the present day.
- While shooting in unhygienic surroundings, Nawazuddin Siddiqui fell ill and was hospitalised for five days, initially diagnosed with dengue; his wife said he kept repeating his film dialogues while semi-conscious in bed.
- Vicky Kaushal was given two scenes and five days to prepare for his audition as Raghav; he locked himself in a room and cut himself off from phone, internet and newspapers, then got the part.
