Director: Bejoy Nambiar
Writers: Vikram Chandra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, 6 more credits »
Stars: Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Amitabh Bachchan | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
Two unlikely friends are brought together by grief and a peculiar twist of fate. One is an ATS officer that is widowed and the other is a wheelchair bound chess grandmaster with a mysterious past. The two must play the biggest game of their lives in an unfinished game before the malevolent 'Wazir' checkmates them.
Did You Know The Movie of Wazir?
Vidhu Vinod Chopra had the script ready in early 2000's and wanted to make the film as a Hollywood project initially with American cast as he felt the Indian audiences were not mature enough to understand the plot around chess, he was keen to cast Dustin Hoffman or Anthony Hopkins as the leading actor, a script meeting was arranged with Dustin Hoffman but this didn't materialize
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