Pizza movie is an Bollywood Hindi-language supernatural Horror-thriller film directer is Akshay Akkineni while Producer are Siddharth Roy Kapur,Bejoy Nambiar under banner of Getaway Films,UTV Spotboy. The film is a remake of 2012 Tamil film, Pizza, directed by Karthik Subbaraj.
The film leading stars cast are Akshay Oberoi, Parvathy Omanakuttan and Dipannita Sharma in the Main roles, while Arunoday Singh, Rajesh Sharma, Omkar Das Manikpuri and Sonali Sachdev play supporting roles.
Pizza movie is released on 18th July, 2014 with mostly average critics reviews and also Average success at the Box office.
- Directer : Akshay Akkineni
- Producer : Siddharth Roy Kapur,Bejoy Nambiar
- Writer : Karthik Subbaraj,Akshay Akkineni
- Story : Karthik Subbaraj
- Starring : Akshay Oberoi,Parvathy Omanakuttan,Arunoday Singh,Dipannita Sharma
- Music/Songs : Mikey McCleary,Saurabh Kalsi,Shamir Tandon
- Cinematography : Jaya Krishna Gummadi
- Editor : A. Sreekar Prasad,Production
- company : Getaway Films,UTV Spotboy
- Distributor : UTV Motion Pictures
- Genres : Horror,Thriller
- Release date : 18 July 2014
- Running time : 107 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Pizza movie trailer :
Star cast of the film :
- Akshay Oberoi as a Kunal
- Parvathy Omanakuttan as a Nikita
- Arunoday Singh as a Mr. Ghost
- Dipannita Sharma as a Mrs. Ghost
- Rajesh Sharma as a Mr. Kapoor
- Omkar Das Manikpuri as a Sadhu
- Hussain Dalal as a Sameer
- D. Santosh as a Lobo (as Santosh Darrne)
- Sonali Sachdev as a Priya Kapoor
- Diya Chalwad as a Anjali
- Rituparna Chowdhury as a Anita
- Gulshan Pandey as a Inspector
- Umesh Jagtap as a Haunted house inspector
- Jai Shankar Tripathi as a Haunted house constable
- Rajiv Kumar Mishra as a Anna
Pizza movie Songs / Music :
The film music album and background score composer are Mikey McCleary, Shamir Tandon and Saurabh Kalsi while lyricist are Sameer Pandey, Ankur Tewari, Tanmay Bahulekar, Abhishek Kumar, Shashank Kunwar and Abhijeet Deshpande.
The video and audio of the music album released under banner of Times Music India.
- “Haddiwali Mundi”…………Ahan Shah
- “Gimme Pizza”……………..Ankur Tewari
- “Tum Chal Diye (Acoustic)”…….Arjun Kanungo
- “Theher Ja”……………………..Abhijeet Deshpande
- “Tum Chal Diye (Reprise)”…….Arjun Kanungo
“Gimme Pizza” full video song :
- Singer : Ankur Tewari
- Composer: Mikey McCleary
- Lyricist : Tanmay Bahulekar & Ankur Tewari
- Music Banner : Times Music
Pre-Production and Casting :
The critical and commercial success of the Tamil version motivate to its remakes in Kannada and Bengali. The remake rights for the Hindi version was bought by Bejoy Nambiar for 1.5 crore rs. (US$210,000), which itself was the actual budget of the original version.
Casting :
Director Akshay Akkineni was debutante with the film, son of veteran editor and multiple National Film Award winner, A. Sreekar Prasad.
Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Bejoy Nambiar, the film features music by Mickey McCleary, Saurabh Kalsi, Shamir Tandon and the background score by noted Tamil composer K. The film’s production design was done by Anita Rajagopalan and Donald Reagen.
Film shooting :
The film was shot in 3D.
Review of the film :
This film reviews are mostly mix to positive from critics.
Critics reviews :
- Times of India critics Renuka Vyavahare gave 3 star from 5 star and stated that “The faint-hearted can stay away for the film does get immensely eerie. The rest should watch it for it’s one of the most unpredictable thrillers you will see in a long time.”
- Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave also 3 star from 5 star and stated that “On the whole, PIZZA movie scares and startles in parts. A condensed, watertight screenplay in the latter half was much desired to create a hammer-strong impact. Yet, the film has its moments!”
- Shubhra Gupta from Indian Express gave 2 star from 5 star and writes that “A remake of the surprise Tamil hit of the same name, the film proves a point. That successful horror doesn’t need stars, it needs a solid script, and atmospherics.”
Online review :
Public review :
Box office collection :
- Screens : 600
- First Day Friday : 57 lakh rs.
- First Weekend : 2.21 crore rs.
- First Week : 3.33 crore rs.
- Total Nett Gross: 3.35 crore rs.
- India Gross : 4.48 crore rs.
- Overseas Gross : $—
- Worldwide Gross : 4.48 crore rs.
- Pizza movie Budget : 10 crore rs.
- Pizza movie Verdict : Disaster
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