Shahid (2013)
Shahid (2013)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Kay Kay Menon
War saab
Rajkummar Rao
Shahid Azmi
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Maqbool Menon
Prabhleen Sandhu
Mariam
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
Arif
Vipin Sharma
Prosecutor More
Baljinder Kaur
Ammi
Hansal Mehta
Director
Sameer Gautam Singh
Writer
Apurva Asrani
Writer
Prabal Panjabi
Omar Sheikh
Sunil Bohra
Producer
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Producer
Shailesh R. Singh
Producer
Anurag Kashyap
Producer
Mukesh Chhabra
Casting
Guneet Monga
Producer
Aakash Dahiya
Casting Associate
Anuj Dhawan
Director of Photography
Shaan Vyas
Associate Producer
Karan Kulkarni
Original Music Composer
Abhisek Vyas
Co-Producer
Alok Thakur
Executive Producer
Arbind Alok Thakur
Executive Producer
Rabiul Sarkar
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 18, 2013
Original Nameशाहिद
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 9m
Budget$970,000
Box Office$6,100,000
Genres
Wiki.
Shahid is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film directed by Hansal Mehta, written by Sameer Gautam Singh and jointly produced by Anurag Kashyap and Sunil Bohra in association with Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under the UTV Spotboy banner. Based on the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who was assassinated in 2010, the film stars Rajkummar Rao as Azmi; Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Prabhleen Sandhu and Baljinder Kaur appear in supporting roles.
Mehta took a break after some of his films were box-office failures. When he heard about Azmi's murder, he felt the need to make a film about his life. He began his research for the film nearly three months after Azmi's murder. Eventually, he met Singh, who wrote the script after researching Azmi's life and spending months interviewing Azmi's family. Apurva Asrani contributed additional inputs on the script with Mehta and also served as the film's editor. Anuj Rakesh Dhawan was the director of photography.
Shahid had its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival's City to City programme in 2012. It was screened at several other film festivals including the 14th Mumbai Film Festival, the New York Indian Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival of Stuttgart, the Dubai International Film Festival and the Chicago South Asian Film Festival. The film was awarded the Silver Gateway Trophy at the Mumbai film festival while Mehta won the Best Director award. Mehta also won the best director award at New York Indian Film Festival and at the Indian Film Festival of Stuttgart. It was released theatrically in India on 18 October 2013 and met with critical acclaim. Rao received the Best Actor Award and Mehta the Best Director Award at the 61st National Film Awards ceremony.