Special 26 (2013)Cast, Story,Review

Special 26 (2013)Cast, Story

Special 26  is an Indian 2013 Hindi language heist film directed by Neeraj Pandey and based totally on the 1987 Opera House heist where a collection posing as CBI officers executed an earnings tax raid at the jeweler in Mumbai. It stars an ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Kajal Aggarwal, Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Sheirgill, Anupam Kher and Divya Dutta in lead roles. Special 26 turned into launched global on 8 February 2013 and acquired widespread essential acclaimed reviews. Considered as one of the finest films that year, Special 26 was a crucial and commercial achievement upon its release. Made on a total finances of ₹390 million (US$5.5 million), it grossed ₹1.26 billion (US$18 million) global and became the tenth highest-grossing Bollywood movie of the year. Special 26 become remade in Tamil as Thaanaa Serndha Koottam in 2018

Directed with the aid of Neeraj Pandey

Produced with the aid of • Shital Bhatia

• Kumar Mangat

Written by using Neeraj Pandey

Based on 1987 Opera House heist

Starring 

• Akshay Kumar

• Kajal Aggarwal

• Manoj Bajpayee

• Jimmy Sheirgill

• Divya Dutta

• Anupam Kher

• Rahaao

Music through • M. M. Kreem

• Himesh Reshammiya

• Surinder Sodhi (Background score)

Cinematography Bobby Singh

Edited by way of Shree Narayan Singh

Production Friday Filmworks

company

Distributed by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures

Release date • 8 February 2013

Running time a hundred and forty four minutes

Country India

Language Hindi

Budget ₹39 crore

Box office est. ₹126 crore

Plot

The tale of the movie opens on 18 March 1987, in which a walk-in CBI interview is taking place, held by Ajay Singh (Akshay Kumar) and P.K. Sharma (Anupam Kher). The movie then is going into flashback.

Ajay Singh (Akshay Kumar) calls a neighborhood police station to reap more manpower for a CBI raid. He speaks to SI Ranveer Singh (Jimmy Sheirgill) who concurs to send the required range of help officers. Ajay, with accomplices P.K. Sharma (Anupam Kher), Joginder (Rajesh Sharma), and Iqbal (Kishor Kadam), meet the support officers and conduct the raid.

Following the a hit raid at a minister's house, it's discovered that Ajay and Sharma are fake CBI officials, in conjunction with their accomplices. They then flow to different parts of the country in which they belong to and merge into their normal lifestyles. Ajay's love interest, Priya (Kajal Aggarwal), an approximately-to-be-married teacher, is added here. The team meets once more in Chandigarh at the behest of Sharma for his daughter's wedding.

Ranveer along with his senior officer meet the minister of the sooner raid, who famous that he doesn't want the information to appear within the public domain because he wants to guard his image. The senior officer suspends Ranveer together with his colleague Shanti (Divya Dutta) for being irresponsible.

CBI officer Waseem Khan (Manoj Bajpayee) lives along with his wife (Neetu Singh) and infant in New Delhi. He apprehends a crook named Gupta, which offers an insight into his character. A disgraced Ranveer meets Khan, and they be part of hands to understand Ajay and his fellow criminals.

Meanwhile, the following raid planned through Ajay is carried out on a traders' business in Bara Bazar in Kolkata posing as officials from the Income Tax Department. Following the extra difficult however successful raid, Khan insists that this have to be reported in the newspaper, despite no one coming ahead to file it themselves, as black money is involved. Upon seeing this in the newspaper, Ajay and Sharma determine to conduct their "large job," a final raid in Mumbai.

After the second earnings tax raid, the tale briefly specializes in Ajay and Priya, with the latter's marriage being planned. She insists to go along with Ajay for the very last job, however he tells her to satisfy him on the airport at four pm on the day.

Meanwhile, Ranveer unearths facts about Sharma, and Khan orders wire-tapping his smartphone. When Sharma is speakme to Ajay at the cellphone, Khan procures several information about them, including the names Joginder, Iqbal and 'Ajju' (Ajay's nickname). As a result, beneath Khan's orders, officials song the team to Mumbai to a resort wherein they're staying. They plan to raid and subsequently rob a huge jewellery keep.

Ajay, observed through a CBI officer, is going to a newspaper to advertise for "50 dynamic graduates" with information of an interview. Khan embeds his officials some of the candidates and they're selected. Khan unearths out the details of the schooling process, which includes a ridicule raid. It is said that, at the day, the applicants could be skilled after which led out for the mock raid in the afternoon. However, no information about the raid have come to light.

To discover extra, Khan and Ranveer visit the inn and force their way into Sharma's room. He divulges the records about the raid, following a danger of violence. He also mentions that Ajay is taking revenge on the CBI for not appointing him. Khan orders Sharma to make certain the entirety proceeds as normal.

On the day of the raid, Khan takes charge of the jewelry save and replaces the products with faux jewellery, with the originals being moved to a close-by workshop. He is given constant data about the hobby of the team and recruits. Ajay informs the recruits that he's going to come in a one of a kind car to them. Sharma leaves with the recruits in a bus, however leaves the bus at police headquarters, announcing that he's going to arrive with Ajay. He additionally states that nobody should depart the bus till they arrive and that he is going to affirm the office work for the raid at the Police HQ. In reality, he is going to meet Ranveer Singh. With Ajay, a raid of the workshop is carried out. Ajay then is going and meets Priya, who is ready for departure on the Sahar International airport.

Meanwhile, at the jewelry keep, Khan is informed that the raid became performed at the workshop and all jewellery inside the workshop in conjunction with the jewellery that had been moved were stolen. Khan works it all out for himself, realizing that Ranveer became part of the crowd and he wasn't a real police officer and they were set up proper from the beginning. Khan starts laughing loudly and applauds the whole theft plan and execution. Later, Khan receives a money order for Rs. a hundred that Ajay had taken from him with the message that he could not thieve the honest income of an officer. The film ends with Khan being told over the phone that the CBI has records about the perpetrators. At the same time we see Ajay Singh and P.K. Sharma playing a cricket healthy fortuitously at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium with their wives

Cast

• Akshay Kumar as Ajay "Ajju" Singh / A. K. Vardhan

• Manoj Bajpayee as C.B.I. Officer Waseem Khan

• Anupam Kher as Pramod Kumar Sharma or P.K.Sharma

• Jimmy Sheirgill as Sub-Inspector Ranveer Singh

• Kajal Aggarwal as Priya

• Rajesh Sharma as Joginder

• Rahaao as Candidate 19

• Vikas Srivastava as Rajiv Gupte, Candidate 6

• Kishor Kadam as Iqbal

• Divya Dutta as Shanti

• Kharaj Mukherjee as Roy, CBI Officer in Kolkata

• Deepraj Rana as Rahul

• Ujjwal Chopra as Solanki

• Tiku Talsania as Magandas, BSJ jewellery store owner

• Sachin Nayak as Vella boy

• Neetu Singh as Waseem's wife

• Vipin Sharma as faux ACP

• Abha Parmar as Minister Gupta's wife

• Mukesh Bhatt as Minister's PA

• Gurpal Singh as Telephone repairer

• Jarnail Singh as Telephone taping guy

• Ronika as P.K.Sharma's daughter

• Sharad Shetty as goonda chased with the aid of Waseem at Connaught Place

• Suraj Gupta as Munna, informer

Neeru Bajwa as object girl in song "Gore Mukhde Pe Zulfen Di Chaava"

Special 26  official trailer