Emergency (2025 film)

Emergency
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKangana Ranaut
Screenplay byRitesh Shah
Story byKangana Ranaut
Based onThe Emergency: A Personal History by Coomi Kapoor
Priyadarshini: The Daughter of India by Jaiyanth Vasanth Sinha
Produced byKangana Ranaut
Zee Studios
Renu Pitti
Starring
CinematographyTetsuo Nagata
Edited byRameshwar S. Bhagat
Music bySongs:
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Arko
Score:
Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara
Production
companies
Manikarnika Films
Zee Studios
Distributed byZee Studios
Release date
  • 17 January 2025 (2025-01-17)
Running time
146 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹60 crore
Box office₹21.75–22 crore

Emergency is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language historical biographical drama film directed and co-produced by Kangana Ranaut, based on a screenplay by Ritesh Shah and story written by Ranaut. Based on the Indian Emergency, it stars Ranaut as former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

Principal photography commenced in July 2022 and ended in January 2023. It was originally scheduled for release on 6 September 2024, but was postponed due to pending certification of the Central Board of Film Certification. Later, it was cleared by CBFC and released on 17 January 2025 to mixed-to-negative reviews from film critics. The film also emerged as a box-office flop.