Shamshera | |
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Directed by | Karan Malhotra |
Written by | Neelesh Misra Khila Bisht |
Dialogue by | Piyush Mishra |
Screenplay by | Ekta Pathak Malhotra Karan Malhotra |
Produced by | Aditya Chopra |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Anay Goswamy |
Edited by | Shivkumar V. Panicker |
Music by | Mithoon |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 159 minutes[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹150 crore[2][3] |
Box office | ₹61.16 crore[4] |
Shamshera is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language period action film produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films and directed by Karan Malhotra.[5][6] The film stars Ranbir Kapoor in a dual role[7] with Sanjay Dutt as the antagonist alongside Vaani Kapoor, Ronit Roy, Saurabh Shukla and Ashutosh Rana.[8][9] Set in the 1800s, the story follows a dacoit tribe and their fight for independence against the British rule.[10]
Budgeted at ₹150 crore (US$19 million), Shamshera is one of the most expensive Hindi films.[11] It was theatrically released on 22 July 2022 to poor reviews from critics.[9] [12] [13] [6] The movie suffered from a lack of audience occupancy in cinemas, with led to the cancellation of many screenings. Against its ₹150 crore budget, the film failed to generate a revenue of over ₹54 crore in its first weekend,[14] thus making it a major box-office disaster.[15]
1891: Balli is a tribesman from the Khameran tribe, who aspires to become a cop where he ask to provide a test for him, to a conniving Indian cop named Shudh Singh. Shudh Singh asks him to beat a child to prove his worth, where Balli refuses and take the child’s place and bears the punishment. That night, Balli learns about his father Shamshera's past.
1871: Shamshera is a Khameran tribesman, who along with his people were oppressed by the people of Kaza because of caste and status discrimination. Due to this, Shamshera counterattacks and pillages the kingdom, which leads to Kaza, creating a fearful reputation against the Khamerans. The kings and the wealthy men of the empire seeks the help of the British to drive away the Khameran tribe from their village forest. The British accepts the deal in exchange for 5000 gold coins.
The Britishers attacks the Khameran tribe, but Shamshera and the tribal people fight valiantly and the Britishers flee. Shamshera receives a message that their tribe could live peacefully and regain their lost respect if they promised to stop plundering Kaza and move to a fortress outside the city premises. Shamshera and his men arrive at the forest where they realize that it is a trap led by Shudh Singh, and are captured where they are tortured mercilessly.
Shamshera is told by the British to provide 10,000 gold coins, in exchange for sparing the Khameran tribe. Realizing that the deal would be difficult to achieve inside the fortress. Shamshera forms a plan to help the tribe escape from the fortress, but to no avail where he tells his wife about his plan to frame himself as a traitor and also tells her to cook-up a story to save the tribe from getting killed. Shamshera tries to escape by climbing the wall of the fortress where the officers-in-charge spots Shamshera and shoots him, leaving Shamshera wounded and later getting hanged by Shudh Singh. Beliveing the Shamshera is a traitor, The tribe develops a hatred against him, thus leaving the truth to be buried.
1891: After learning the truth, Balli fakes his death and escapes from the fortress with the help of Shamshera's trusted ally Pir Baba. When Shamshera decided to move to the fortress, a few Khamerans decided to stay back, where they are now residing in a town named Nagina, and had camouflaged their identities, doing all petty jobs in the town for a living and they were waiting for Shamshera, as he would come and help them regain their lost respect and dignity.
As advised by Pir Baba, and with the help of a local dancer named Sona, Balli starts looting the rich people of Kaza and refers himself as Shamshera. The British General is worried about the new Shamshera. Shudh Singh invites the General for his wedding, where the General deduce that Shamshera would come to the wedding. Balli is able to steal the gold from Shudh Singh’s wedding, but his youngest gang member is shot by the sadistic cop.
With the information given by a gang member of Balli, Shudh Singh conducts a crackdown and confiscates all the gold that the gang had stolen till now, where Sona (who is pregnant with Balli's child) is caught by Shudh Singh, where he attempts to kill her and Balli's child, but the General stops him. Though heartbroken, Balli plans to steal the Queen's Crown, which is supposed to arrive at Kaza.
Despite tight security, Balli steals the Queen's crown and puts a blot on the British General's reputation. Balli makes a deal with the General to free the Khamerans, in exchange for the Queen's Crown. The General agrees and Balli returns with the surviving members of his crew to the Kaza Fortress. Shudh Singh kills the British forces, and places the blame on Balli, and takes the credit for returning the crown to the queen, but forgets about placing the blame on Khamerans.
The Khamerans learn about Shamshera's sacrifice from Pir Baba, where they get enraged and breaks the fortress's gates to fight alongside Balli. They slaughter the police force. Balli fights Shudh Singh, where he hangs Shudh Singh in the same way, in which he hanged Shamshera. Balli leaves the Queen's Crown to the British General, due to him having saved Sona's life. The Khamerans ride alongside Balli, and are hopeful that they will be able to live a dignified life hereafter.
Shamshera was officially launched in May 2018 by Yash Raj Films through a motion poster, starring Ranbir Kapoor as the titular character Shamshera.[19] Sanjay Dutt was cast as antagonist, and Vaani Kapoor was signed to play the female lead.[9][12] To prepare her role, Vaani Kapoor took professional training in Kathak.[20] Kapoor portrays a dancer.[21][22]
Principal photography begun in December 2018.[23] For the film, a massive fort was built at Film City, Goregaon, requiring 2 months of preparation and the effort of nearly 300 workers.[24] Filming ended in September 2020.[25][26][27]
Distributed and released by Yash Raj Music, the soundtrack and background score for Shamshera is composed entirely by Mithoon, in his first collaboration with the label and producer, with lyrics by Mithoon, Malhotra and Piyush Mishra.
Shamshera released in cinemas on 22 July 2022.[13] Originally planned for cinema release on 20 December 2019, Shamshera was later on highly delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][26] It was then rescheduled to 25 June 2021, but due to the second wave of pandemic, the release was postponed to 18 March 2022, that once again got deferred due to Omicron variant spread. It released on 22 July 2022.[27] The film was released in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu and in IMAX theatres.[13]
Shamshera earned ₹10.25 crores at the domestic box office on its opening day. On the second day, the film collected ₹10.50 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹11 crore, taking a total domestic opening weekend of ₹31.75 crore.[4]
As of 29 July 2022[update], the film grossed ₹48.15 crore (US$6.0 million) in India and ₹13.01 crore (US$1.6 million) overseas, for a worldwide gross collection of ₹61.16 crore (US$7.7 million).[4]
Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost rated the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Ranbir is gorgeous in every imaginable way in Shamshera in terms of his acting, sex appeal, dancing, litheness in the action scenes and magnetic personality".[28] Tina Das of The Print rated the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "While RRR relies heavily on VFX, Ranbir Kapoor's Shamshera affects the heart and feels more realistic with its new caste angle and Vaani Kapoor’s acting".[29] Avinash Lohana of Pinkvilla rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Karan Malhotra’s Shamshera starring Ranbir Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt is in line with the ongoing trend of workable films, and has the right amount of drama, action, romance, humour and all other masala potboiler elements to entertain the audience".[30] Mugdha Kapoor of DNA India rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Ranbir Kapoor shines in the double role, and the film marks the perfect comeback for the actor".[31] A critic for Filmfare rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "The South film industry has been making such films for the last few years, and Shamshera is Bollywood’s bold attempt at replicating the formula. The Hindi film industry needs a renaissance and let’s hope this film becomes a catalyst towards it".[32]
Rachana Dubey of The Times of India rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "To sum it up, director and co-writer Karan Malhotra surely seemed to have had a grand vision at the onset, but it’s his execution that seems to have betrayed him".[33] Sonil Dedhia of News 18 rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Shamshera doesn’t really have the punch or the thrill that is required to pull off a film of this scale. The film feels a little too long, blame it on weak editing".[34] Shalini Langer of The Indian Express rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Ranbir Kapoor is efficiently good as Shamshera, a leader of a tribe first treated as outcastes and later betrayed and kept enslaved in a fort".[35] Tushar Joshi of India Today rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Shamshera is a mess that needs more than just star power to come to its rescue".[36] Sukanya Verma of Rediff rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Shamshera's problem is a shocking inability to support its bombastic ideas with gripping drama. The result is the wastage of not one but two Ranbir Kapoors".[37] Taran Adarsh for Bollywood Hungama rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "With an outdated script and predictable plot Shamshera falters big time".[38] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV rated the film 1 out of 5 stars and wrote "Moral of the story for Ranbir Kapoor - the actor should henceforth read his scripts with a more critical eye before buying into them. He owes it to his talent".[39]
At a budget of over Rs 150 crore, it has Kapoor playing the lead with Yash Raj Films (YRF) producing this mega project.
Made on the budget of Rs 150 crore, the trailer of the movie reminds you of various popular titles like Baahubali, Gladiator, RRR and more.
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