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{{short description|2018 film by Rahul Sankrityan}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Taxiwaala
| image = Taxiwaala poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| screenplay = Saikumar Reddy
| director = [[Rahul Sankrityan]]
| producer = SKN
| story = Rahul Sankrityan
| starring = [[Vijay Deverakonda]]<br />[[Priyanka Jawalkar]]<br />[[Malavika Nair]]
| music = [[Jakes Bejoy]]
| cinematography = [[Sujith Sarang]]
| editing = Sreejith Sarang
| studio = [[Geetha Arts|GA2 Pictures]] <br /> [[UV Creations]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2018|11|17}}
| runtime = 150 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget = {{estimation}} {{INR}}7 crore<ref>[https://www.jackace.in/2018/03/Taxiwaala-Box-Office-Budget-Cast-Hit-Flop-Posters-Story.html]</ref>
| gross = {{estimation}} {{INR}}42 crore<ref>[https://amp.ibtimes.co.in/taxiwala-set-world-tv-premiere-zee-telugu-will-it-beat-geetha-govindams-trp-record-791873 Taxiwala set for world TV Premiere on Zee Telugu: Will it beat Geetha Govindam's TRP record?]</ref>
}}

'''''Taxiwaala''''' ({{trans|Taxi driver}}) is a 2018 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[Supernatural fiction|supernatural]] [[comedy thriller]] film<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/taxiwala-2018|title=TAXIWALA (12A)|publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]]}}</ref> directed by [[Rahul Sankrityan]], and jointly produced by [[UV Creations]] and [[Geetha Arts]]. The film stars [[Vijay Deverakonda]], Priyanka Jawalkar, and [[Malavika Nair]] while [[Madhunandan]], [[Ravi Varma (actor)|Ravi Varma]], and [[Shiju]] play supporting roles with music composed by Jakes Bejoy. The car used was a modified [[Hindustan Contessa]].

The film released on 17 November 2018 to positive reviews and became a box office success.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/telugu/vijay-deverakonda-taxiwaala-release-5434657/|title=Vijay Deverakonda’s Taxiwaala to hit screens on November 17|date=5 November 2018|website=The Indian Express|access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/vijay-devarakondas-taxiwaala-declared-hit-with-rs-17-cr-collections-over-two-days-amar-akbar-anthony-crashes-5581411.html | title=Vijay Devarakonda's Taxiwaala declared hit with Rs 17 cr collections over two days; Amar Akbar Anthony crashes | date=20 November 2018 | publisher=Firstpost | first=Surendhar | last=MK | access-date=28 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url= http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Tollywood/2018-04-19/Taxiwala-Teaser-Review/375045/|title= Taxiwala Teaser Review|work= The Hans India |access-date=2018-04-19|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Plot ==

The movie starts off with an odd scene in a hospital and then cuts to a year later.

Shiva comes to Hyderabad to live with his friend and find a job. His friend suggests him a couple of jobs and Shiva tries all of them. But he is not satisfied and decides to become a taxi driver. He goes to his village to get money from his brother but instead gets it from his sister-in-law who readily gives away her Mangalsutra (wedding chain) to him. Shiva and his friends search for a car in their budget but fail. One morning, Shiva gets a call from an unknown person who tells him that he has a car which is ready to be sold. Shiva meets the car's owner and takes the car happily, while his friend is a little hesitant.

Shiva starts to work for the [[Ola Cabs|Ola Cab Service]]. On his first ride, he falls in love with a girl named Anusha. Then, he starts to experience spooky things in the car. He tries to contact the car's previous owner but is unable to do so. A fake fakir comes and fools them by taking the car away. The fakir is almost killed while he is inside the car. Next morning, Shiva and his friends see the car in their garage. Shiva has to arrange money for his sister-in-law's delivery, so he starts to drive the car again. He is saved from an accident by the car itself. Once, after dropping Anusha at her residence, Shiva is pleaded by a doctor to drop him somewhere. But, the doctor is killed when is hit in the car and is ran on by a train after being thrown out of the car.

Shiva decides to go to the car's previous owner's house and steal something so that he can demand money from him. He and his friends go there and find a person in the store room of the house. They admit him in a hospital. The person wakes up and tells that he knows why the car behaves oddly. He tells that he was a professor of psychology and parapsychology. Once, he teaches a subject called [[Astral projection]] through which one can separate his/her soul from the body before death and can also meet the dead. A student named Sisira Bharadwaj asks him to perform it on her. He asks her the reason behind her intention. In a flashback, Sisira tells her story- She lives with her asthma diagnosed mother and her step-father, Raghuram. In the night, after a clash between her and her mother, she wakes up due to suffocation and couldn't find her inhaler and knocks sisira's door only to be neglected by her and her mother dies when she opens the door and she is greatly disturbed by this. She tells him that she wants to meet her mother. The professor performs Astral Projection on her and in the process, she starts to go deep into the Astral world and realises that her mother was actually killed by Raghuram and the doctor, who snatched away the inhaler from her.

Raghuram arrives and takes the professor and Sisira in a car, along with his friend, who is a doctor. But both of them hit the professor and Sisira's soul is separated from her body. Sisira's body is taken away by a clinic as she donates her body. On knowing this, Shiva apologizes to her spirit. The professor tells them that Sisira can be brought back to life if they get her body. Shiva and his friends go to the clinic and get the body, with the help of the security guard turned fakir who had tried to steal their car earlier. Raghuram wishes to see Sisira's body and comes to the clinic. He is almost killed by her spirit, but saves himself. Shiva beats him and takes him and Sisira's body to the professor's lab. Raghuram wakes up and tries to take Sisira's body away but the vehicle gets burned by Sisira's soul. Shiva gets extremely saddened.

He gets a call from Anusha who tells him that his sister-in-law gave birth to a baby girl. He goes to the hospital only to realize the baby had died due to chromosome abnormality. All of them go to the garage and console each other. While the baby's body is in the car, Sisira's soul enters the body and the baby starts crying. Shiva, his brother, his sister-in-law, his friends, the professor and Anusha come together and cuddle the baby.

== Cast ==

*[[Vijay Devarakonda]] as Shiva
*[[Priyanka Jawalkar]] as Anu/Anusha
*[[Malavika Nair (Indian actress)|Malavika Nair]] as Sisira Bharadwaj
*[[Madhunandan]] as Babai/Shiva's friend
*Vishnu as Hollywood
*[[Ravi Varma (actor)|Ravi Varma]] as Sisira's Professor
*[[Shiju]] as Raghuram (Sisira's step-father)
*[[Ravi Prakash (Telugu actor)|Ravi Prakash]] as Shiva's brother
*[[Kaveri (actress)|Kalyani]] as Shiva's sister-in-law
*[[Yamuna (actress)|Yamuna]] as Sisira's mother
*[[Uttej]] as Doctor
*[[Kireeti Damaraju]] as a Doctor
*[[Chammak Chandra]] as Fake [[Fakir]] / Hospital security guard
*[[Chitram Seenu]]
*[[Satya Krishnan]] as Doctor

==Music==

{{Infobox album
| name = Taxiwaala
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Jakes Bejoy]]
| cover =
| released = 17 November 2018
| recorded = 2018

| genre = [[Soundtrack]]
| length = 16:43
| label = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer = [[Jakes Bejoy]]
| prev_title = [[Ranam (2018 film)|Ranam]]
| prev_year = 2018
| next_title = [[Suttu Pidikka Utharavu]]
| next_year = 2018
}}
The song "Maate Vinadhuga"<ref>{{cite web |title=Maate Vinadhuga Song Lyrics{{!}} Song lyrics |url=https://www.lyricsindianow.com/2020/01/maate-vinadhuga-song-lyrics-sidsriram.html |website=Lyricsindianow.com }}</ref> was the first to be released.
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| all_writing = Krishna Kanth
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| headline = Track listing
| title1 = Maate Vinadhuga
| extra1 = [[Sid Sriram]]
| length1 = 4:35
| title2 = Ladies and Gentlemen
| length2 = 3:22
| extra2 = [[Vedala Hemachandra]], Jakes Bejoy
| title3 = Crazy Car
| length3 = 4:22
| extra3 = [[L. V. Revanth|Revanth]]
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| length4 = 4:24
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=== Reception ===
{{Album ratings
| title = Music Review
| rev1 = IndiaGlitz
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="India Glitz">{{cite web |title=Taxiwala Music review songs lyrics - IndiaGlitz.com |url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/taxiwala-songs-review-telugu-movie-22325 |website=IndiaGlitz.com}}</ref>
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123telugu.com in its review noted that "The audio of Taxiwala is not the regular song and dance album which will impress the moment you hear it. This is a situational album which will grow on you once you watch the thriller and connect with the story",<ref>{{cite web |title=Vijay Deverakonda Taxiwaala Audio Review {{!}} Music Review {{!}} Songs Talk |url=https://www.123telugu.com/reviews/taxiwaala-telugu-music-review.html |website=123telugu.com |access-date=5 November 2018 |language=en |date=5 November 2018}}</ref> and said it was "Youthful and Contemporary". Telugu360 said "Taxi Waala is an outright classy album and Jakes Bejoy strikes a very emotional chord as well."<ref>{{cite web |title=Classy in Every Respect- TaxiWaala Audio |url=https://www.telugu360.com/taxiwaala-audio-review-tollywood/ |website=Telugu360.com |access-date=5 November 2018 |date=5 November 2018}}</ref> IndiaGlitz in its review noted "Taxiwala is a winsome album boasting of two melodious songs and two cinematic numbers. If the singers and the lyricist give their vocal/poetic best, the music director blends the known and the new well."<ref name="India Glitz"/>

== Piracy ==
The movie was initially set to release in May but it was postponed. In June, months before release of the movie, an uncut version of the movie was put up on the internet. On 7 November 2018, 10 days prior to the release of the film, a 45-minute clip of the film was leaked by the piracy website [[Tamil Rockers]]. The full movie was leaked a week later. Police immediately swung into action and the culprits were arrested.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/taxiwala-full-movie-leak-free-download-vijay-devarakonda-opens-pirated-copy-785279|title=Taxiwala full movie leak for free download: Vijay Devarakonda opens up on pirated copy|last=Hooli|first=Shekhar H|work=International Business Times, India Edition|access-date=2018-11-14}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|tt8047208}}

[[Category:2018 films]]
[[Category:2018 horror films]]
[[Category:Astral projection in popular culture]]
[[Category:Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy horror films]]
[[Category:Films about automobiles]]
[[Category:2010s Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:Indian fantasy-comedy films]]
[[Category:Indian supernatural thriller films]]
[[Category:UV Creations films]]

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