Ranked #72 of 100
Special 26
स्पेशल 26 · 2013
A gang posing as CBI officers raids the black money of 1987 Delhi and Bombay, based on a real Opera House heist.
- Director
- Neeraj Pandey
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Heist · Thriller
- Cast
- Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Sheirgill
Why it's at number 72
The most elegant Indian heist film — no gadgets, just paperwork and nerve.
A gang posing as CBI officers raids the black money of 1987 Delhi and Bombay, based on a real Opera House heist.
Special 26 sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Neeraj Pandey — also responsible for A Wednesday!.
- Released in 2013, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Heist, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Special 26 (2013) · 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
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