India Synopsis
ഗ്രാന്റ്മാസ്റ്റര്
“Anything can happen before the next move”
Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Grandmaster. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From UTV Motion Pictures
Thriller + Action in India
229 India titles in our catalog blend the Thriller and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Grandmaster itself).
The 2011–2013 India Window
Grandmaster holds position #78 of 233 India films in the 2011–2013 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in India, 919 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Grandmaster premiered alongside 68 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 10m runtime, production spent $923 per minute on screen and earned $1K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 68 other India films in 2012.
The 896th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
34 audience reviews — more than 71% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 78th percentile among India films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Grandmaster, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- psycho killer · 4
- mental · 1
- alphabetic order · 1
- doctor · 25
- police officer · 25
- father · 7
- based on novel or book · 288
- investigation · 45
- death · 43
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #888 of 1,983 India films indexed here (55th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.2 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Thriller productions specifically: #212 of 482 (top 44%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Malayalam |
| Production Companies | UTV Motion Pictures |
| Runtime | 2h 10m |
| Release Date | May 3, 2012 |
| IMDb | tt2345561 |