Akira (2016 Hindi film)

Akira
File:Akira poster.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A.R. Murugadoss
Produced by	Fox Star Studios A.R. Murugadoss
Written by	Story & Screenplay: Santha Kumar Additional Screenplay: AR Murugadoss Additional Screenplay and Dialogues: Anurag Kashyap Dialogues: Karan Singh Rathore
Based on	Mouna Guru by Santha Kumar
Starring	Konkona Sen Sharma Sonakshi Sinha Anurag Kashyap Raai Lakshmi Chaitanya Choudhury Raman Akira brother
Music by	Score: John Stewart Eduri Songs: Vishal–Shekhar
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Production company	Fox Star Studios A.R. Murugadoss Productions
Distributed by	Fox Star Studios
Release date	2 September 2016 (2016-09-02)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹36.0 million
Box office	est. ₹150.63 million

Akira is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action crime thriller film co-written, produced and directed by AR Murugadoss. It is a remake of the 2011 Tamil-language film Mouna Guru, and features Konkana Sen Sharma, Sonakshi Sinha and Anurag Kashyap in the lead roles.

Principal photography began in March 2015, and the film released worldwide on 2 September 2016. The soundtrack composed by Vishal-Shekhar has been released on 16 August 2016.

Plot

Akira Sharma (Mishiekka Arora) is a little girl who lives happily with her father and mother. One day, she witnesses a crime involving a group of unruly men throwing acid on a young woman's face. Akira helps the police catch one of the criminals. Because of involving herself as a witness, the unruly men harass Akira and slash Akira's face out of revenge, ultimately giving her a scar. Akira's father enrolls her in a self-defense class for her to be able to protect herself in the future. On her way home one day, Akira sees the same men who attacked her previously, while fighting them, one of them takes out a bottle of acid to throw acid on her. When it backfires, the police accuse Akira of throwing acid on his face. She is arrested by the police and is eventually convicted and imprisoned in juvenile jail.

14 years later

Akira (Sonakshi Sinha) has grown into a brave young woman, while her father has died. Akira is released from imprisonment, and after having served her jail time, she and her mother move in with her brother. Akira later joins college and lives in a hostel. At first, some students try to bully and harass her but end up learning the hard way to not mess with her. One night, ACP Rane (Anurag Kashyap) runs into one of the college professors with his car and beats him up because the professor is upset about his behaviour. The college students reach out to the commissioner. The police brutally beats them up and tries to move all of the students away, with only Akira remaining. She hands over the signed petition sheet and the information to the commissioner when he arrives.

A couple of days later, Rane robs and kills a man. When he admits this on the phone at his girlfriend Maya's (Raai Laxmi) place, she records his confession and decides to show it to her friends. At the last moment, her camera with all the information is stolen, and someone blackmails Rane. All this makes him nervous, and he kills his girlfriend and begins searching for who is behind this. The case is handled by SP Rabiya (Konkona Sen Sharma), who suspects that Maya did not commit suicide, but had been murdered. One day, Akira finds a bag full of stolen items, including the camera, in front of her dorm. Rane's associates see her and take her away and decide to kill her. She sees three of Rane's associates kill two other men. Rane calls them and tells them they have the wrong girl, but orders to shoot her. She escapes, goes to her principal, and tells him everything.

Suddenly, Rane's associates take her away to a mental asylum, and, with the help of a doctor, they give her shocks and injection to prove that she is mentally unstable. She flees from the hospital with the help of another patient, Rani. She decides to prove her innocence by kidnapping one of the associates. Later, Rane traces her hideout. He and his team try to kill her, but Rabiya arrives at the right moment with orders to arrest Rane, and seizes the arms from Rane and his associates. She, however, is stopped by the commissioner because Rane killed the brother of a strong North Indian politician, who will cause riots if he knows that a policeman was involved. Rane gets back the charge, after the commissioner orders him to take Akira to a mental asylum. The helpless Rabiya leaves after explaining the whole thing to Akira but quietly carries along the seized arms. Akira kills Rane and his associates but still goes to the mental hospital. Rabiya gets frustrated at her helplessness but succeeds in not registering a case against her. Akira is released three months later and decides to follow in her father's footsteps by teaching challenged kids.

Cast

• Konkona Sen Sharma as SP Rabiya Sultan
• Sonakshi Sinha as Akira Sharma
  • Mishiekka Arora as Young Akira Sharma
• Anurag Kashyap as ACP Govind Rane, a Mumbai Police officer
• Rose J Kaur as Sister Marlyn
• Raai Laxmi as Maya Amin, ACP Rane's girlfriend
• Teena Singh as Nikki, Bully girl of college
• Phalguni Khanna as Acid attack victim girl
• Amit Sadh as Dr. Siddharth "Sid" Nerurkar, Shilpa's brother
• Urmila Mahanta as Anna Jain, the college principal's daughter
• Lokesh Vijay Gupte as Inspector Dinesh Manik, a member in ACP Rane's group
• Chaitanya Choudhury as Akshat Sharma, Akira's elder brother
  • Taher Penwala as Young Ajay
• Ashish Dixit as Vishal, Shilpa's brother and Akira's friend
• Smita Jaykar as Mrs. Sharma, Akira and Ajay Akshat's mother
• Ankita Karan Patel replaced Surveen Chawla as Shilpa Sharma, Ajay's wife
• Saurabh Goyal as Sunil Vij, Maya's friend
• Nandu Madhav as Inspector Rajeshwar Raai, a member in ACP Rane's group
• Krishna Bhatt as David
• Uday Sabnis as Constable Bapu Raao
• Narsingh Pandey as Akira's college professor
• Arun Verma as Akira's psychiatrist
• Atul Kulkarni as Mr. Jignesh Sharma, Akira and Ajay's father (special appearance)
• Kajol Saroj as Mental Patient

Music

Akira
Soundtrack album by Vishal-Shekhar
Released	16 August 2016
Genre	Feature Film soundtrack
Length	24:25
Label	T-Series
Producer	Vishal-Shekhar John Stewart Eduri Aditya N. Abhijeet Nalani DJ Kiran Kamath
Vishal-Shekhar chronology
Sultan (2016) Akira (2016) Banjo (2016)

The songs featured in the film were composed by the duo Vishal-Shekhar. The background score of the film was composed by John Stewart Eduri.

The song Kehkasha Tu Meri is a remake of the duo's Marathi song Harvali Pakhare from the 2012 film Balak-Palak, sung by Shekhar Ravjiani.

Akira (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Rajj Rajj Ke" (Version 1)	Sonakshi Sinha, Vishal Dadlani	4:20
2.	"Purza"	Arijit Singh	3:35
3.	"Kehkasha Tu Meri"	Shekhar Ravjiani	3:02
4.	"Rajj Rajj Ke" (Version 2)	Nahid Afrin, Vishal Dadlani	4:20
5.	"Baadal"	Sunidhi Chauhan	4:49
6.	"Rajj Rajj Ke" (Remix)	Nahid Afrin, Vishal Dadlani	4:19
Total length:			24:25

Box office

India

The film collected ₹56 million (US$790,000) on its opening day in India. By the end of its first weekend, Akira had grossed ₹170 million (US$2.4 million) and its first week collection was approximately ₹223 million (US$3.1 million) domestically.

Overseas

Akira collected ₹14.2 million (US$200,000) from North America (America and Canada), ₹28.2 million (US$400,000) from UAE, ₹6.1 million (US$86,000) from UK. The film collected ₹7.8 million (US$110,000) from Pakistan.

External links

• Akira on IMDb