India Synopsis
वज़ीर
“This new year make your best move”
'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.
Audience Engagement
110 audience reviews — more than 92% of India films in our index.
Review volume (92th percentile) outruns trending popularity (73th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thriller + Action in India
229 India titles in our catalog blend the Thriller and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Wazir itself).
The 2015–2017 India Window
Wazir holds position #146 of 314 India films in the 2015–2017 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 Wazir premiered alongside 94 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 43m runtime, production spent $50K per minute on screen and earned $89K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 94 other India films in 2016.
The 1234th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #866 of 1,983 India films indexed here (56th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.2 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Thriller productions specifically: #205 of 482 (top 43%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Production Companies | Getaway Films Private Limited, Vinod Chopra Films, Rajkumar Hirani Films, Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions |
| Runtime | 1h 43m |
| Release Date | January 7, 2016 |
| IMDb | tt0315642 |