2016 · thriller · action · crime
Wazir
Directed by Bejoy Nambiar1h 43m2016
'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.
Our read: Wazir (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · action · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
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“You want a tight Hindi chess-thriller with a big late twist and strong Bachchan-Akhtar chemistry.”
Skip it tonight — You need wholly unpredictable plotting; the final gambit lands early for attentive viewers.
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