Ranked #73 of 100
A Wednesday!
अ वेडनसडे! · 2008
A man calls the Mumbai Police Commissioner and gives him four hours and a list of demands. Ninety-three minutes, real time.
- Director
- Neeraj Pandey
- Year
- 2008
- Genre
- Thriller
- Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Sheirgill
Why it's at number 73
Naseeruddin Shah's final monologue is one of the most argued-about speeches in Indian film.
A man calls the Mumbai Police Commissioner and gives him four hours and a list of demands. Ninety-three minutes, real time.
A Wednesday! sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Neeraj Pandey — also responsible for Special 26.
- Released in 2008, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — A Wednesday! (2008) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial The ranking and the case made for each placement — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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