Saaho (2019) on Netflix
Crime boss Narantak Roy dies in a car crash, and his hidden son Vishwank takes over the Roy Group. Officer Ashok Chakravarthy and Amritha Nair hunt the thief behind a heist.
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Plot summary
Narantak Roy runs the Roy Group, a conglomerate that fronts the crime syndicate governing the metropolis of Waaji City. On a business trip to Mumbai he dies in a car crash, and Devaraj, son of a former syndicate leader, moves to claim the throne. Ibrahim, Roy's confidant, tells the group's legal advisor Kalki that Roy raised an estranged son in anonymity; Vishwank Roy steps forward to lead the syndicate and hunt his father's killers. In Mumbai, a master thief manipulates unrelated people into a two-thousand-crore heist. The police form a task force under Ashok Chakravarthy, with Amritha Nair, Goswami and the cyber expert David. They track a suspect, Jai, and Ashok lets slip that a black box can open a vault in Waaji City; Kalki secures the box in a high-security bank.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Saaho (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- An action sequence that takes up an exceptionally long stretch of Saaho's screenplay was shot extensively near the Burj Khalifa, and ₹25 crore of the film's budget went on it.
- Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt rejected roles in Saaho, with Alia Bhatt explaining she wanted more performance-oriented roles; Shraddha Kapoor was confirmed for the film in August 2017.
- Luggage and bag maker Outshiny India filed a complaint and lawsuit against Saaho's director and multiple staff members for fraud, alleging the filmmakers broke a deal to show its product in the film and that ₹1.38 crore ($196,000) in fees was lost.
- Jerome Salle, director of the 2008 film Largo Winch, claimed Saaho was an unauthorized remake of his film after social media users pointed out the similarities; he had earlier made the same plagiarism claim against the Telugu film Agnyaathavaasi (2018).
- Saaho included underwater sequences featuring Prabhas, and the actor learnt scuba diving in preparation for his role in the film.
