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MONEY
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Shot for just $4.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
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Raazi
"An Incredible True Story"
2018 2h 18m HI
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Synopsis
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An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
“An Incredible True Story”
Cast
Alia Bhatt
Sehmat Syed
Vicky Kaushal
Iqbal Syed
Rajit Kapoor
Hidayat Khan
Shishir Sharma
Brigadier Syed
Ashwath Bhatt
Mehboob Syed
Jaideep Ahlawat
Khalid Mir
Soni Razdan
Teji
Arif Zakaria
Abdul
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Meghna Gulzar
- Writers
- Bhavani Iyer, Meghna Gulzar
- Languages
- Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri
- Countries
- India
Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.
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Fun facts 🍿
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MONEY
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Made its money back 5.3× over at the box office.
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ERA
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Released 8 years ago.
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WORLD
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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri.
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Meghna Gulzar, shot by Jay I. Patel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Original score by Ehsaan Noorani. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Nitin Baid shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
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CAST
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Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal and Rajit Kapoor carry the top of the cast.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Meghna Gulzar directs. Jay I. Patel behind the camera. Ehsaan Noorani scores. Nitin Baid cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in India. Dialogue in Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Shot for just $4.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
- 2Made its money back 5.3× over at the box office.
- 3Released 8 years ago.
- 4Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri.
- 5Directed by Meghna Gulzar, shot by Jay I. Patel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 6Original score by Ehsaan Noorani. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 7Editor Nitin Baid shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 8Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal and Rajit Kapoor carry the top of the cast.
- 9Marketing tagline: "An Incredible True Story".
- 10IMDB entry: tt7098658 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Jay I. Patel
- Original score
- Ehsaan Noorani
- Editing
- Nitin Baid
- Production design
- Subrata Chakraborty
- Costume design
- Maxima Basu
- Makeup / hair
- Shrikant Desai
- Sound
- Kunal Sharma
- Stunt coordinator
- Harish Kumar
- Runtime
- 138 min · 2h 18m
- Aspect ratio (typical)
- 1.37:1 (Academy)
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4,500,000
- Box office
- $23,800,000
- Return
- 529% of budget
- Original language
- HI
- IMDB
- Raazi (2018)
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Production companies
Who made it
Dharma Productions
IN
Junglee Pictures
IN
Key crew
- Playback SingerHarshdeep Kaur
- LyricistGulzar
- Playback SingerShankar Mahadevan
- Playback SingerVibha Saraf
- Playback SingerSunidhi Chauhan
- Playback SingerArijit Singh
- Production DesignSubrata Chakraborty
- ProducerApoorva Mehta
- Special Effects CoordinatorArijit Ghosh
- Line ProducerSomesh Shivraj
- StuntsAmit Grover
- ProducerKaran Johar
- GafferJaved Qureshi
- Sound EditorBoby John
- Stunt CoordinatorHarish Kumar
- ProducerVineet Jain
- Production DesignAmit Ray
- EditorNitin Baid
- Second Assistant DirectorTripathi Ankur
- ProducerHiroo Johar
- Still PhotographerHitesh Mulani
- Sound DesignerKunal Sharma
- Art DirectionPallavi Pethkar
- Co-ProducerPriti Shahani
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- based on novel or book
- female spy
- india pakistan war
- grand
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2018-05-10
