Wazir
- Director
- Bejoy Nambiar
- Studio
- Vinod Chopra Films
- Release Date
- 7 January 2016
- Running Time
- 104 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹35.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹78.69 Cr
Review
Brijmohan Lall's "Wazir" arrives as an unexpectedly layered thriller that transcends the director's typically modest output. The film's central conceit—pairing a grief-stricken cop with a disabled chess instructor as unlikely partners in justice—could have easily devolved into mawkish sentiment, yet the narrative maintains a genuine tension between personal vendetta and larger institutional corruption. Amitabh Bachchan brings a weathered introspection to Danish, capturing the hollow mechanics of a man operating on autopilot, while Farhan Akhtar's chess master provides an intellectual counterweight that grounds what could have been overwrought melodrama. The chemistry between them, built incrementally through their games and conversations, earns the emotional stakes that the film demands.
Where "Wazir" falters is in its third act, where the revelations about governmental conspiracy and the hired killer's motivations feel somewhat rushed and formulaic. The mechanics of the thriller—the chases, the reveals, the final confrontation—execute competently but without the surgical precision the first half promises. There's a disconnect between the intimate, character-driven investigation and the broader political thriller elements that feel grafted on rather than organic. Still, the film respects its audience's intelligence enough to avoid easy answers, and the climactic turn, however imperfect, offers genuine moral ambiguity rather than conventional heroic resolution.
Rating: 6.8/1
Storyline
So basically, this cop named Danish is dealing with some serious trauma after his young daughter gets caught in the crossfire during a dangerous operation. His marriage falls apart because of it, and he's really at rock bottom—we're talking suicidal thoughts kind of low. That's when he meets this chess teacher who's disabled and becomes this unexpected friend to him. The teacher tells Danish about his own daughter who supposedly died in an accident, but he's convinced there's something darker going on behind the scenes.
The chess master convinces Danish to dig into what happened to his daughter, but whenever they get close to uncovering the truth, this mysterious hired killer starts showing up to shut them down. Things escalate pretty quickly from there, and Danish finds himself on this intense mission to track down a powerful government minister who seems to be connected to the whole thing. With some help from his cop buddy, Danish goes on this wild chase across different locations trying to get to the truth.
Throughout all this, Danish discovers that the minister isn't who everyone thinks he is, and that he's been hiding some truly horrific secrets. Without spoiling exactly how it all plays out, let's just say Danish's investigation takes him down a dark rabbit hole involving terrorism and betrayal at the highest levels. The movie keeps you guessing about who's really behind everything and what's actually going on with this mysterious hitman character everyone keeps mentioning.
