A Wednesday!
| A Wednesday | |
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| Directed by | Neeraj Pandey |
| Written by | Neeraj Pandey |
| Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala Shital Bhatia Anjum Rizvi |
| Starring | Naseeruddin Shah Anupam Kher Jimmy Sheirgill Aamir Bashir Deepal Shaw |
| Cinematography | Fuwad Khan |
| Edited by | Shree Narayan Singh |
| Music by | Sanjoy Chowdhury |
Production companies | Friday Filmworks Anjum Rizvi Film Company |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹12 crore |
A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Anjum Rizvi and Shital Bhatia under UTV Motion Pictures and Friday Filmworks. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, and is set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday. The film depicts a confrontation between a police commissioner and an anonymous caller who threatens to detonate bombs throughout Mumbai if four terrorists are not freed from police custody.
Released on 5 September 2008, it received widespread critical acclaim and emerged as a commercial success. It was also granted tax exemption in the state of Maharashtra. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards. It went on to be remade in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously as Unnaipol Oruvan and Eenadu (both 2009), and as an English-language Sri Lankan film A Common Man (2013).