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Special 26

Year:

2013

Duration:

144 min

Genres:

Crime | Drama | History | Thriller

IMDB rate:

7.9

Director:

Neeraj Pandey

Awards:

11 nominations

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 2013-02-07

Filming Locations: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Earnings

Gross: INR 810,000,000 (Worldwide) Filming Dates 23 February 2012 Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Anupam Kher

Kajal Agarwal

Akshay Kumar

Ajay Singh

Manoj Bajpayee

CBI Officer Wasim Khan

Jimmy Shergill

Senior Inspector Ranvir Singh

Divya Dutta

Shanti

Rajesh Sharma

Joginder

Kishore Kadam

Iqbal

Tiku Talsania

Vipin Sharma

Deep Raj Rana

Neeru Bajwa

Vikas Shrivastav

CBI Officer Rajiv Gupte

Neetu Singh

Waseem Khan's Wife

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Trivia

Actor Anupam Kher who plays a vital role in this movie also played role of a con artist in another movie Khel (1992), which has a sequence that is based on the 1987 Zaveri Bazaar con job, the same incident that inspired this film.

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Soon this movie will dubbed to another languages in India

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Ajay Devgn & Abhishek Bachchan were reported to have been considered for the lead role. However it went to Akshay Kumar as he was Director's first choice.

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Goofs

After the first heist (set in the mid-1980s), Anupam Kher boards a two-tone blue-liveried train to Chandigarh with a WDP-4B locomotive (#40039). The WDP-4B class was introduced in 2010, and the blue livery in the late 1990s.

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When Priya is leaving after meeting Ajju, near the beach. The bus is shown in front of her. However, in the next shot, the bus is behind her.

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Name of Chandigarh Airport in Punjabi on the sign board is spelt wrong.

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Faq

What is the era the film is portraying?

The 1987 is mentioned. So, it can be assumed that the 13 reported cases happened in the 1986-1987 timeframe.More specifically, the movie begins with an interview sequence in which the date March 18, 1987 is given. Also, the incidents towards the beginning of the movie take place somewhere in the months of January as is mentioned by one of the characters in passing. As such, it can be assumed that the movie takes place in the late 80s, more specifically, in the early three months of 1987.

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