Film: A Wednesday

Director: Neeraj Pandey

Producer: Ronnie Screwvala, Anjum Rizvi & Shital Bhatia

Banner: : Anjum Rizvi Film Company, UTV Motion Pictures & A Friday Filmworks

Cast: Naseruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill, Aamir Bashir, Deepal Shaw, Gaurav Kapoor, Chetan Pandit, Virendra SaxenaSnehal Dhabi, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Rohitash Gaud, Mukesh Bhatt and others

Rating: 3/5

It is generally the truth, the real, which has the most potential to evoke the most poignant questions. The stirring Mumbai Meri Jaan grappled with some of them and in a startling follow-up comes Wednesday, another underdog film that explodes with pertinent questions and effective statements.

Wednseday is set in Mumbai. The time is the present, a little after the horrendous 7/11 train blasts. The police receive hostage warnings from an anonymous caller who demands that four top criminals connected to the international terror rings be freed else the city will explode with bombs planted all over it. The film is about that one Wednesday whence the police are forced to play a cat and mouse game with a master-mind, both trying to outdo each other at their own game. But it is not that simple.

The master-mind, played brilliantly by Naseeruddin Shah has a plan chalked out right till the last dot. Police Chief Prashant (surname) played by Anupam Kher with a tight finesse, finds a daunting task but shoulders the responsibility that comes with a total authority. But he does not realise what he is up against. And the force this time is not of brutal physical force. It is a struggle between law and lawlessness, fair and unjust, moral and immoral. It is a struggle that puts the whole system of governance, democracy, law and order into question and gives a new meaning to the adage of democracy, 'Of the people, for the people, by the people.'

Wednesday is a twist-in-the-tale film centred on burgeoning terrorist globally. This time it is the common man who wields the mike and makes himself heard. It is he who asks questions of his survival, his well-being, his life. Questions that are being asked all over the world but find it increasingly more...

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