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.
The 2015–2017 India Window
314 India films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Wazir sits at position #146.
The 2010s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Wazir premiered. 919 total titles in this decade from India.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 43m runtime, production spent $50K per minute on screen and earned $89K per minute back.
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 |