Shanghai (2012 film)
| Shanghai | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Dibakar Banerjee |
| Screenplay by | Urmi Juvekar Dibakar Banerjee |
| Based on | Z by Vassilis Vassilikos |
| Produced by | Ajay Bijli Dibakar Banerjee Sanjeev K Bijli Priya Sreedharan |
| Starring | Prosenjit Chatterjee
Emraan Hashmi Abhay Deol Farooq Shaikh, Kalki Koechlin Pitobash Tripathy |
| Cinematography | Nikos Andritsakis |
| Edited by | Namrata Rao |
| Music by | Songs: Vishal–Shekhar Background Score: Mikey McCleary |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | PVR Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹349 million (US$4.1 million) million |
Shanghai is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language political thriller film directed and co-written by Dibakar Banerjee, starring Emraan Hashmi, Farooq Shaikh, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin and Prosenjit Chatterjee. It is a remake of 1969 French film Z which was based on the Greek novel Z by Vassilis Vassilikos. On 6 June 2012, the high court refused stay on the release of the film. It received critical acclaim upon its release but was considered a modest commercial success.