Wazir

Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officer Daanish Ali (Farhan Akhtar) lives a blissful life with his wife Ruhana (Aditi Rao Hydari) and little daughter Noorie. One day, while Daanish is driving with Noorie, he spots a known terrorist, Farooq Rameez driving by and chases him. Rameez and his gang ambush Daanishs vehicle and Noorie is killed in the ensuing shootout while Rameez escapes.Ruhana is shattered and blames Daanish for Noories death, completely shutting him out from her life. Daanish moves to his friend and colleague Sartajs (Anjum Sharma) house where Sartaj gives him sleeping pills; however, Daanish overhears Sartaj discussing Rameezs location with their SP (John Abraham).

Unexpectedly, Daanish then turns up at Rameezs location while a police operation is ongoing and starts a shootout, eventually killing Rameez. The ATS bosses are enraged as they wanted to capture Rameez alive and find out which politician intelligence sources say he was in Delhi to meet. Daanish is sent away on medical leave.A grief-stricken Daanish is about to kill himself at his daughter Noories grave when a mysterious van appears outside the graveyard, driving off when Daanish yells at it. Daanish finds a wallet lying where the van was with an address in it.

He goes to return the wallet and meets its owner, a wheelchair-bound chess master named Pandit Omkar Nath Dhar (Amitabh Bachchan), who tells him that he was Noories chess teacher. The Pandit starts teaching chess to Daanish and tells him about his own late daughter Nina, who used to teach chess to Ruhi (Mazel Vyas), the daughter of Welfare Minister Yazaad Qureshi (Manav Kaul). Nina mysteriously slipped down the stairs at Qureshis house, dying on the spot. The Pandit is convinced this was not an accident but the police believe Qureshis version of how Nina died. Daanish finds out that Qureshi and his daughter were the lone survivors of a terrorist attack on their village in Kashmir, after which Qureshi became a poster-boy for peace and a political force.

Intrigued, Daanish goes to meet Qureshi, but meets senior Delhi police officers at Qureshis office, who threaten Daanish with arrest if he troubles the minister in the future. Daanish then tries to meet his wife Ruhana at their house, but she refuses to let him in. He then goes to the Pandits house and they play vodka-fuelled chess, during which Daanish finally beats the Pandit. The Pandit then meets Ruhana and tells her that for Noories sake, she should help his class of children complete a dance-drama that Nina wrote. Daanish goes to meet Qureshis daughter Ruhi at her school and goes through her sketchbook, in which there is a sketch of Nina.

He asks Ruhi about where she was when Nina died, but Ruhis minder takes her away.Ruhana meets Daanish at the dramas rehearsal and the Pandit tells her how Daanish had almost committed suicide and how the Pandit himself had lost his wife in a driving accident, leaving him with no-one to share his grief when Nina died. Meanwhile, Qureshi threatens Ruhi for talking to Daanish, warning her to never do so again. The police close Ninas case file, despite the Pandits protest. The Pandit awaits Qureshis cavalcade on Rajpath and throws his shoe at Qureshis car, breaking the ministers red beacon.

That night, the Pandit is attacked by Wazir (Neil Nitin Mukesh), an assassin sent by Qureshi. Wazir brutally attacks the Pandit with a knife and sets his wheelchair and chess set on fire. He also warns Pandit and Daanish to stop chasing Qureshi. Even more determined, Daanish persuades Sartaj to tap Qureshis phone. As Qureshi travels to Kashmir, Wazir repeatedly phones Daanish and taunts him, pressuring him to prevent the Pandit following Qureshi to Kashmir.

Daanish takes the Pandit to his home where the Pandit rekindles the love between Ruhaana and Daanish. However, the Pandit takes advantage of the opportunity and leaves the house quietly for the airport to travel to Kashmir. Wazir calls Daanish, tells him where the Pandit is heading and threatens to kill him. Daanish frantically chases the Pandits van and eventually stops him. As he does so, Wazir blows up the Pandits vehicle.

Daanish is now determined to go to Kashmir, exact revenge from Qureshi and discover who Wazir is. He goes to Srinagar and meets the SP, with whom he plans to get to Qureshi during a speech. During the speech, the SP detonates explosives amongst Qureshis supporters, causing panic. The SP then holds off police commandos, giving Daanish time. Daanish chases Qureshi and eventually breaks into his room.

He demands to know where Wazir is - Qureshi claims he doesnt know anybody called Wazir. Qureshis daughter Ruhi emerges and confides to Daanish that Qureshi is not her father - he is actually one of the militants who massacred Ruhis entire village and posed as her father (threatening her not to tell anybody) when Indian Army troops arrived to secure the village. Ruhi had told Nina this, so Qureshi killed Nina by pushing her down the stairs. Ruhi also tells Daanish that terrorists continued to meet Qureshi in Delhi. Daanish realizes that Rameez had come to Delhi to meet Qureshi and shoots Qureshi dead.

A few days later, while watching the Pandits dance-drama enacted by kids, Daanish realizes that the Pandit was in fact the plays weak pawn who befriended a strong rook (Daanish) who would kill a wicked king (Qureshi). Daanish leaves and rushes to find the Pandits housekeeper, Pammi (Seema Bhargava), who says that she didnt actually see Wazir on the night he attacked the Pandit. Pammi gives Daanish a USB pen-drive fashioned out of a queen chess piece (which the Pandit had told her to give Daanish if he came looking for Wazir). In the pen-drive is a video of the Pandit explaining what he did. Daanish realizes that Wazir actually never existed and was just a persona made up by the Pandit, who knew that due to his handicap, he was powerless against Qureshi.

The Pandit intentionally dropped his wallet near Noories grave, so Daanish could find it and then befriend him. All the Pandits knife wounds were self-inflicted and he had used voice recordings to pose as Wazir. The Pandit knew that he would have to sacrifice himself in order to ensure that Daanish would kill Qureshi and take revenge for both of them. Daanish and Ruhana are then reunited.The Indian Express gave the film 2.

5/5 stars, saying, Watching Farhan Akhtar and Amitabh Bachchan joust and manoeuver around each other is this film's high point. Behindwoods gave it 2.5/5 stars,saying,The chessmaster fails to checkmate the critics. The first post mentions, If first impressions are the lasting impressions, then Bejoy Nambiars Wazir gets it right from the outset. The Hindustan times gave the film 3/5 stars, saying, In a remarkable deviation from the typical Bollywood style, Wazir's characters do not delve into the sadistic pleasure of avenging a wrong but concentrate on the final target.

Subhash K. Jha gave it 4/5 stars,saying,In its 1 hour and 40 minutes of playing-time Wazir gives us no time to stop and ruminate. Magic Of Bollywood gave the film 3/5 stars, calling it A gutsy attempt at a film which keeps you engaged for the most part, Farhan Akhtar and Amitabh Bachchan deliver.

Director :

Bejoy Nambiar

Cast :

Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh

Genre :

Thriller

Producer :

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Release Date :

2016-01-08

Running Time :

104 minutes

Music :

Songs: Shantanu Moitra Ankit Tiwari Advaita (band) Prashant Pillai Rochak Kohli Gaurav Godkhindi Background score: Rohit Kulkarni

Soundtrack :

Title
Singers
Lyrics
Length
Tere Bin
Sonu Nigam - Shreya Ghoshal
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
04:05
Tu Mere Paas
Ankit Tiwari
Manoj Muntashir
03:46
Maula Mere Maula
Javed Ali
Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Swanand Kirkire
06:42
Tere Liye
Gagan Baderiya - Prashant Pillai
A. M. Turaz
02:58
Khel Khel Mein
Amitabh Bachchan
Abhijeet Deshpande
03:59
Atrangi Yaari
Amitabh Bachchan - Farhan Akhtar
Gurpreet Saini - Deepak Ramola
03:37
Wazir Theme
Instrumental
Instrumental
03:00

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