Holiday : A Soldier Is Never Off Duty movie is a 2014 Bollywood action thriller film writer/directer is A. R. Murugadoss, and producer is Vipul Shah. It starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha in the Main role while Freddy Daruwala with Bollywood Debut plays role of Antagonist and Govinda shown in Guest Appearances. This film is is remake of Tamil film Thuppakki which is also directed By A. R. Murugadoss.
Film Story revolving around India Army Captain who discovers a plot to bombard Mumbai via sleeper cells and finds out to destroy them including their leader, using his intelligence and fighting skills.
The film was released worldwide on 6th June, 2014 with Critical acclaim and Also Commercial Hit film, Made on a budget of 50 Crore rs. With worldwide earnings of over 178 Crore rs., Holiday movie become to be one of the highest-grossing Indian films of 2014. Akshay ‘s acting/Action was appreciated, earning him a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Actor.
- Directer : A. R. Murugadoss
- Producer : Aruna Bhatia,Twinkle Khanna,Vipul Amrutlal Shah
- Writer : A. R. Murugadoss
- Starring : Akshay Kumar,Sonakshi Sinha,Sumeet Raghavan,Freddy Daruwala
- Music/Songs : Pritam
- Background Score : Prasad Sashte
- Cinematography : Natarajan Subramaniam
- Editor : Amitabh Shukla
- Casting Director : Honey Trehan
- Production Design : Vikas Gaurh, Sukant Panigrahy
- Art Direction : Mayur Sharma
- Costume Design : Arun J. Chauhan, Sakshi Mehra, Ami Patel
- Assistant Director : Maahi Kaur, Archit Kumar,
- Production company : Hari Om Entertainment,Sunshine Pictures
- Distributor : Reliance Entertainment
- Genres : Action, Thriller
- Release date : 6 June 2014
- Running time : 170 minutes
- Budget : 50 Crore rs.
- Box office Collection : 178.40 Crore rs.
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Holiday : A Soldier Is Never Off Duty Movie trailer :
Star Cast of the film :
- Akshay Kumar as a Virat Bakshi, Captain in DIA, a wing of Indian Army, and a soldier.
- Sonakshi Sinha as a Saiba Thapar, a boxer.
- Freddy Daruwala as a Shadab Ali Farooqui, leader of the sleeper cells.
- Govinda as a Pratap, Virat Bakshi’s Senior Commanding Officer. (Cameo appearance)
- Sumeet Raghavan as a Mukund ‘Makhiya’ Deshmukh, Virat’s friend, also a Sub Inspector, Mumbai Police.
- Zakir Hussain as a Alvin D’Souza, Joint Secretary of Defense.
- Randheer Rai as a Joel, A groom and a soldier.
- Gireesh Sahdev in a Guest appearance as ACP Ashok Gaikwad.
- Dipendra Sharma in a Guest appearance as Asif Ali, the second-in-command of the sleeper cells.
- Maroof Raza in a cameo appearance.
- Cherry Mardia as a Preeti Bakshi, Virat Bakshi’s younger sister.
- Apoorva Arora as a Pinky, Virat Bakshi’s youngest sister.
- Prayas Mann as a Afsar Ali, Shadab’s brother.
- Premnath Gulati as a Virat’s Father
- Rajiv Kachroo as a Noel
- Yugesh Anil as a Military Officer
- Sonpreet Jawanda as a Vishal
- Sandeep Sachdev as a Soldier
- Chirag Sethi as a Sidharth Amar
- Aashin A. Shah as a Military Officer
- Dipendra Vasistha as a Asif
- Gaurrav Walia as a Sarfaraaz
- Akruti Nagpal
- Athar Siddiqui as Army Officer
- Sourav Chakraborty
- Vishal Saroye
- Abhay Shukla
- Anchal Singh
Holiday : A Soldier Is Never Off Duty Movie Songs / Music :
The film’s music album composer is Pritam, was released on 12 May 2014. Additional songs featured in the audio CD composer are Kaushik Dutta, were released on 2 June 2014. The lyricist is Irshad Kamil for the songs featured in the film.
Sukumar Dutta wrote the lyrics for Kaushik Dutta’s composition. while background score composer is Prasad Sashte. A reprise version of the song “Ashq Na Ho” was released on 17 March 2016. The Reprise version was sung by singer Asees Kaur.
Film’s Music album have 7 Song’s listed with as per Below with Singers.
- “Shaayraana”………………………………..Arijit Singh.
- “Tu Hi Toh Hai” (Film Version)…………..Kunal Ganjawala.
- “Ashq Na Ho”………………………………….Arijit Singh.
- “Blame The Night”…………………….Arijit Singh, Aditi Singh Sharma, Piyush Kapoor.
- “Palang Tod” (Version 1)…………………..Mika Singh, Ritu Pathak.
- “Tu Hi Toh Hai”……………………………Benny Dayal.
- “Palang Tod” (Version 2)……………….Mika Singh, Ritu Pathak
“Shaayraana” full video song :
- Singer : Arijit Singh
- Lyrics : Irshad Kamil
- Music : Pritam
“Tu Hi Toh Hai” full video song :
- Singer : Benny Dayal
- Music : Pritam
- Lyrics : Irshad Kamil
“Palang Tod” full video song :
- Singer : Mika Singh, Ritu Pathak
- Lyrics : Irshad Kamil
- Music : Pritam
Review of the film :
This film reviews are mostly positive from all critics and also Box office wise successful film.
Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama Gave 4 Star Star out of 5 Star. While Times of India Critics Give 3.5 Star out of 5 Star and Koimoi gave 3 star out of 5 Star.
IMDB Public reviewing site give 7.2 star out of 10 star.
Critics reviews on ETC Channel :
Public Review : First Day First Show :
Box office Collection :
Holiday film opened well and First Day Friday collection is nearly 12.10 Cr rs, Saturday 12.40 cr and Sunday 16.85 Cr rs. and After 1 Week Collected nearly 68.62 Cr rs. and 2nd week 30.95 Cr. rs, and India Nett final collection is 153.43 cr. rs and Overseas collection is 24.97 cr. rs and so worlwide collected 178.40 cr rs. and So Box office India Declared Super-Hit Status to this film and also one of the Highest Grosser film of Akshay Kumar and 2014.
- Day 1-Friday…………………..12.10 Cr
- Day 2-Saturday……………….12.40 Cr
- Day 3-Sunday………………….16.85 Cr
- Day 4-Monday…………………8.10 Cr
- Day 5-Tuesday………………..7.13 Cr
- Day 6-Wednesday…………..6.29 Cr
- Day 7-Thursday………………5.75 Cr
- Week 1 Collection……………68.62 Cr
- Day 8-Friday……………………4.50 Cr
- Day 9-Saturday……………….6.30 Cr
- Day 10-Sunday……………….8.75 Cr
- Day 11-Monday………………3.20 Cr
- Day 12-Tuesday……………..2.95 Cr
- Day 13-Wednesday…………2.75 Cr
- Day 14-Thursday…………….2.50 Cr
- Week 2 Collection…………..30.95 Cr
- Week 3 Collection…………..10.24 Cr
- Week 4 Collection…………….. 2.09 Cr
- Week 5 Collection……………..0.63 Cr
- India Net Collection……………..112.53 Cr
- Worldwide Gross Collection…………178.40 Cr
- Overseas Collection………………………..24.97 Cr
- India Collection Gross…………153.43 Cr
- Holiday Movie Budget :…………50.00 Cr
- Holiday Movie Verdict : —-SUPER-HIT
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