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Released
2013 · FILM

Vishwaroopam

A devoted Kathak instructor’s seemingly perfect marriage unravels when his oncologist wife hires a private eye, forcing him to confront deadly secrets that could destroy them both.

“God will save us. Which god?”

Directed by
Kamal Haasan
Written by
H Banerjee, Kamal Haasan
Rated
CBFC · UA
Runtime
147 min
Language
TA
ActionThriller

Synopsis

Vishwanathan is a Kathak dance teacher living in New York and is happily married to Nirupama, a nuclear oncologist who moved to the United States to pursue higher studies. Seeking to end her marriage, Nirupama hires a private detective to investigate her husband's activities. The investigation uncovers certain truths about Vishwanathan that shock Nirupama and set off a chain of events that will irreversibly change both of their lives.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 32

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mahesh NarayananShot by Sanu John VarugheseScored by Shankar MahadevanDesigned by James R Cunningham

Box Office

2013 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$51.0M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$51.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Viśvarūpamit

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