Raazi (2018) : Bollywood Hindi Film Trailer And Detail :
Raazi is an 2018 Bollywood period thriller film & directer is Meghna Gulzar and producer are Vineet Jain, Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta under Dharma Productions. It Starring Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal in Main roles. The film is Based On Harinder Sikka’s novel Calling Sehmat, about an Indian spy married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Film shooting started on July 2017 in Mumbai and the shooting was wrapped up on 27 October 2017. The film is scheduled for release on 11 May 2018. Raazi was shot across several locations including Nabha, Malerkotla and Doodhpathri.
The first poster of the film was released on 9 April 2018 through the Twitter handle of the film while the trailer of the film was launched on 10 April 2018.
Raazi was released on 11th May 2018.Production cost of the film is rs.35 crore (US$4.9 million), Raazi went on to gross ₹rs.196 crore (US$27 million) worldwide, emerging as one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films featuring a female protagonist. This film reviews are highly positive, with Meghna’s direction and Alia Bhatt’s performance receiving praise. Raazi received 15 nominations at the 64th Filmfare Awards, where it won five awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for Alia Bhatt.
Directer : Meghna Gulzar
Producer : Vineet Jain,Karan Johar,Hiroo Yash Johar,Apoorva Mehta
Screenplay : Bhavani Iyer,Meghna Gulzar
Based on : Calling Sehmat Harinder Sikka
Starring : Alia Bhatt,Vicky Kaushal
Music : Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Cinematography : Jay I. Patel
Editer : Nitin Baid
Production company : Junglee Pictures,Dharma Productions
Distributer : AA Films
Release date : 11 May 2018
Country : India
Language : Hindi
Trailer of the Film Raazi :
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Raazi Film story :
Indian Army officer Lieutenant General Nikhil Bakshi addresses a group of Indian soldiers aboard the INS Viraat, detailing a woman’s exploits while serving as an undercover agent of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external intelligence agency, in Pakistan.
The story flashes to events preceding the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Hidayat Khan is the son of an Indian freedom fighter and agent posing as an informant for the Pakistani government. He wishes to make his 20-year-old daughter Sehmat an agent and continue the family tradition of being in service to the country as a last wish before his impending death from lung cancer. Sehmat leaves college against the wishes of her mother Teji Khan, and to prepare her to spy, she is hastily trained by senior RAW officer Khalid Mir and his assistant, a young Bakshi, in various fields, including martial arts and shooting. She proves to be a fast learner. Sehmat learns of other agents in Pakistan and their contacts, and practices converting text information to Morse code, which she has to use while transmitting information to India.
Khan uses his friendship with Brigadier Syed of the Pakistan Army to get Sehmat married to his younger son, Iqbal Syed, another military officer. After getting married and migrating to Pakistan, Sehmat quickly settles into her married life, adjusts to a new country, and establishes the trust and confidence of her in-laws. Brigadier Syed is promoted to Major General shortly afterwards, which results in crucial national security documents and senior members of the country’s defence forces passing through his house. Sehmat soon establishes communication channels with her handlers back in India and starts relaying information. Meanwhile, she falls in love with Iqbal and they consummate their marriage.
Eventually, Sehmat spots information related to the planning of an offensive against India and, at great risk, is able to gather the necessary details and pass them on. One of the servants, Abdul, discovers the truth about Sehmat and rushes out to inform the others. She chases him and runs him down with a car to avoid exposing her cover. The event takes a heavy emotional toll on her. The information she passed on points to the planned attack on the Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, then deployed in the Bay of Bengal and provided one of the initial warnings to the threat.
Sehmat plots to kill Mehboob Syed, Iqbal’s elder brother and an army officer after he begins investigating Abdul’s death and finds her suspicious. She succeeds in poisoning him with Ricin using an umbrella contraption. Pakistani intelligence begins a crackdown on espionage operations in the area, and several of Sehmat’s accomplices are arrested, posing an additional challenge. Sehmat is mentally disturbed, having widowed Munira, Mehboob’s wife, but quickly recovers. Mir comes to Iqbal’s house disguised as a Pakistani commander and tells Sehmat in code what to do next. Sehmat then cleverly saves Munira from the ongoing police investigation and interrogation.
Later, Sehmat is eventually discovered as a spy by Iqbal, who is heartbroken by the revelation. Iqbal confronts Sehmat with the police, but dies from a grenade thrown by a member of Mir’s team (which has arrived to extract Sehmat), to cause her death should she be caught. Sehmat is alive, having earlier switched places with another burqa-clad agent who gets killed by the grenade. She realises the insignificance of relationships and humanity in this line of work. Broken by the destruction of a family by her hand and everything she has seen and had to do, Sehmat requests Mir to allow her to return to India. After she does, it is discovered that she is pregnant with Iqbal’s child. She says that she will keep him and raise him alone.
With Sehmat’s findings, the INS Rajput sinks the Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi off Visakhapatnam’s coast.[N 1] This starts the India – Pakistan War of 1971, which ends with the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender. India joined the war on December 3rd 1971, and after Pakistan launched preemptive air strikes on North India. The subsequent Indo-Pakistani War witnessed engagements on two war fronts. With air supremacy achieved in the eastern theatre and the rapid advance of the Allied Forces of Bangladesh and India, Pakistan surrendered in Dacca Bangladesh on 16 December 1971.
Bakshi concludes his speech, with Samar Syed, Sehmat’s son, among the addressed officers. Meanwhile, an aged Sehmat is seen sitting in her chair and staring out of the window of her house, in the middle of nowhere.
Star Cast of the Film :
- Alia Bhatt as Sehmat Khan
- Vicky Kaushal as Iqbal Syed
- Jaideep Ahlawat as Khalid Mir
- Rajit Kapur as Hidayat Khan, Sehmat’s father
- Shishir Sharma as Brigadier (later, Major-General) Syed
- Soni Razdan as Teji Khan
- Amruta Khanvilkar as Munira Syed
- Arif Zakaria as Abdul
- Ashwath Bhatt as Mehboob Syed
- Aman Vasishth as Nikhil Bakshi
- Rajvir Chauhan as ISI Officer
- Rajesh Jais as Sarwar
- Kanwaljit Singh as older Nikhil Bakshi
- Sanjay Suri as Samar Syed, Sehmat and Iqbal’s son
- Pallavi Batra as Mitali
Production :
Preproduction Development :
- Since 2014, Priti Sahani, president of Junglee Pictures, was trying to acquire the film rights to Harinder S. Sikka’s 2008 novel Calling Sehmat, which details the true story of an Indian woman secret agent married to a Pakistani army officer to provide the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) with confidential information prior to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- During the production of Talvar (2015), she got in touch with Meghna Gulzar and enquired if she was interested in directing a film adaptation of the novel. Meghna agreed, but was informed a few months later that the film didn’t materialize. In February 2016, she was approached by another producer to adapt the same novel, and she agreed again, thinking it was “a tad serendipitous” to be offered the same project twice.
- In December 2016, it was being speculated that Alia Bhatt had been offered the lead role in the film, a news which was confirmed to be true in April 2017. Karan Johar’s production house Dharma Productions came on board to co-produce the film along with Junglee Pictures in April 2017. The casting of Vicky Kaushal was officially announced in June 2017.
Film Shooting:
- The film shooting process of Raazi Start in July 2017 and the first schedule which took place in Mumbai was wrapped up by mid-August 2017. Originally, the first schedule of Raazi was supposed to be held in Kashmir but due to the state of unrest in the valley, the makers decided to shift the shooting location to Mumbai where all the indoor scenes were filmed at a set created inside Film City.The second schedule of the film took place in Punjab, where film shooting was done in Patiala and Malerkotla during August and September 2017.
- The shooting in Patiala was stalled for a few days due to the violence that erupted after the conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on 25 August 2017 and the curfew that was imposed as a consequence of which. After completing the Punjab schedule, the production team of Raazi arrived in Kashmir on 17 September 2017 for a ten-day schedule where filming was done at Pahalgam, Shiv Pora in Srinagar and Doodhpathri in Budgam district. The final schedule of shooting was supposed to take place in Punjab, but was completed in Delhi instead due to the unrest caused by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s arrest. Film shooting came to an end on 27 October 2017.
- In this movie, costumes were done by Maxima Basu.
Release :
- The first poster of Raazi was released on 9 April 2018 through the official Twitter handle of the film, while the trailer of the film was launched on 10 April 2018. The film was released on 11 May 2018.
Raazi Movie Songs and Music Details :
The music and background score of the film composer is Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy while the lyricist is Gulzar. The songs featured in the film are sung by Arijit Singh, Harshdeep Kaur, Vibha Saraf, Shankar Mahadevan and Sunidhi Chauhan. The song “Ae Watan (Female)” also contains the lyrics of Allama Iqbal’s dua “Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua”, that is the national prayer of Pakistan being offered during school assemblies. The soundtrack was officially released on 18 April 2018 by Zee Music Company.
“Ae Watan”……………………Arijit Singh
“Dilbaro”…………….Harshdeep Kaur, Vibha Saraf, Shankar Mahadevan
“Raazi”……………………..Arijit Singh
“Ae Watan (Female)”…………….Sunidhi Chauhan
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Raazi Movie Box Office Collection:
India:
| Schedule | Amount (in Crores) |
|---|---|
| Opening Day | 7.53 Crores |
| End of Opening Weekend | 32.94 Crores |
| End of Week 1 | 56.59 Crores |
| End of Week 2 | 91.63 Crores |
| End of Week 3 | 109.84 Crores |
| End of Week 4 | 117.79 Crores |
| End of Week 5 | 121.22 Crores |
| End of Week 6 | 122.52 Crores |
| End of Week 7 | 123.47 Crores |
| End of Week 8 | 123.68 Crores |
| End of Week 9 | 123.78 Crores |
| End of Week 10 | 123.82 Crores |
| End of Week 11 | 123.84 Crores |
| Lifetime Collection | 123.84 Crores |
Awards Win by the Film Raazi :
Film-fare Awards :
- Best Film…………………Raazi
- Best Director…………..Meghna Gulzar
- Best Actress……………Alia Bhatt
- Best Lyricist………….Gulzar – “Ae Watan”
- Best Playback Singer(Male)……Arijit Singh: “Ae Watan”
Star Screen Awards :
- Best Actress……………………………..Alia Bhatt
- Best Male Playback Singer……….Arijit Singh (for the song “Ae Watan”)
- Best Female Playback Singer…..Harshdeep Kaur (for the song “Dilbaro”)
- Best Lyricist……………………………….Gulzar (for the song “Ae Watan”)
- Best Production Design…………….Amit Ray, Subrata Roy
Zee Cine Awards :
- Viewers’ Choice Best Actor : Female………..Alia Bhatt
- Best Film ………………………………………………….Raazi
- Best Lyrics…………………………………..Gulzar for “Dilbaro”
- Best Playback Singer(Female)……Harshdeep Kaur and Vibha Saraf for “Dilbaro”
News 18 Reel Movie Awards :
- Best Actress in a Leading Role………….Alia Bhatt
- Best Lyricist……………………………………….Gulzar
- Playback Singer(Female)……………Harshdeep Kaur, Vibha Saraf – “Dilbaro”
- Best Editing…………………………………Nitin Baid
20th International Indian Film Academy Awards :
- Best Film……………………Raazi
- Best Actress……………….Alia Bhatt.
- Best Male Playback Singer……………….Arijit Singh – “Ae Watan”
- Best Female Playback Singer…………Harshdeep Kaur & Vibha Saraf – “Dilbaro”
Mirchi Music Awards :
Lyricist of The Year………Gulzar : “Ae Watan (Male)”
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