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Released
2016 · FILM

Wazir

A wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a daring ATS officer team up to outwit a shadowy terrorist mastermind, racing against time to prevent a deadly plot while confronting their own grief.

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Directed by
Runtime
103 min
Language
HI
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Wazir is a story about two unlikely friends: a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a courageous ATS officer. United by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men resolve to help each other win the most important games of their lives. However, a mysterious and dangerous opponent lurks in the shadows, determined to checkmate them.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Vidhu Vinod ChopraShot by Hafiz AnsarScored by AdvaitaDesigned by Bindiya Chhabria

Box Office

2016 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$9.2M

Budget$5.2M
Worldwide gross$9.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $715K

Peak 111 theaters

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