Pathaan (Template:IPA-hns) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Siddharth Anand and written by Shridhar Raghavan and Abbas Tyrewala, from a story by Anand. The fourth installment in the YRF Spy Universe, it stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Dimple Kapadia, and Ashutosh Rana. In the film, Pathaan (Khan), an exiled RAW agent, works with ISI agent Rubina Mohsin (Padukone) to take down Jim (Abraham), a former RAW agent planning to spread a deadly lab-generated virus across India.
Produced by Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films,[5] principal photography for Pathaan began in November 2020 in Mumbai. The film was shot over various locations in India, Afghanistan, Spain, UAE, Turkey, Russia, Italy and France. Two songs were composed by the duo Vishal–Shekhar, while Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara provided the score. The film was made on an estimated production budget of Template:INRConvert with a further Template:INRConvert spent on print and advertising.[2] Against the norm, pre-release publicity was limited with no media interaction or public events.
Pathaan was released in India on 25 January 2023, coinciding with the Republic Day weekend, in IMAX, 4DX and standard formats along with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu.[6][7] It received positive reviews from critics and broke several box-office records, including the biggest opening day and opening weekend for a Hindi film.[8][9] Further opening records were set in overseas markets.[10] Grossing over Template:INRConvert in its extended first week, Pathaan ranks as the fifth-highest-grossing Hindi film and eighth-highest-grossing Indian film, as well as the highest-grossing of Khan's career and Yash Raj Films' releases.[11]
Plot[]
In 2019, the Indian Government revokes Article 370, which grants special status for Jammu and Kashmir. The news impacts a cancer-ridden Pakistani army general, Qadir, who decides to exact vengeance against India. He signs a contract with Jim, who leads "Outfit X", a private terrorist organization. Meanwhile, Pathaan, a former RAW agent, and his senior officer Nandini, open a unit dubbed, "Joint Operation and Covert Research" (JOCR), recruiting agents who were forced to retire due to trauma or injury.
With RAW joint secretary, Colonel Sunil Luthra's acceptance, Pathaan and his team head to Dubai to stop Outfit X's plans of attacking the President of India at a scientific conference. However, they realise that their plan was to kidnap two scientists. Jim attacks the scientists' convoy and Pathaan tries to stop him. A fight ensues, where Jim manages to escape with one of the scientists. Luthra reveals that Jim was a former RAW agent, who was declared dead years ago, but faked his death in order to seek vengeance against his country for letting his wife and unborn child get killed at the hands of Somalian terrorists.
Meanwhile, Pathaan learns about the codeword dubbed "Raktbeej" and also that the dead people in Dubai were ex-agents and their money was transferred from the account of Rubina Mohsin, a Pakistani doctor in Spain. He travels to Spain and is captured by Jim's men, where he also learns that Rubina is an ex-ISI agent. When Jim leaves his hideout, Rubina attacks Jim's men and escapes with Pathaan. Rubina reveals that Raktbeej is in Moscow, where they travel to steal it before Jim does. However, Rubina betrays Pathaan and has him captured by the police. It is revealed that Jim used Rubina to make Pathaan steal Raktbeej for himself. Pathaan is captured and taken to prison, but is saved by Tiger.
Three years later, Pathaan travels to Africa and captures Jim's henchman, Raafe. He meets Nandini and reveals about Jim purchasing two saber missiles, while Nandini reveals Rubina's location in Paris. Pathaan meets Rubina, who reveals that the Raktbeej is a smallpox-designed mutated deadly virus, made by the scientist Jim captured. She also expresses guilt about betraying Pathaan without knowing that her country would plan such an attack. They travel to Jim's lab in Siberia and manage to recover one orb containing the virus, while Jim escapes with the other. Pathaan and his team head to a lab to prepare a vaccine for the virus.
Jim calls them and reveals that the orb has already spread the virus in the lab. The infected scientists, along with Nandini, all die in the lab by shooting themselves. Later, the lab is destroyed in a controlled blast to prevent the spread of the virus. Jim provides an ultimatum to evacuate Indian soldiers out of Kashmir within 24 hours. Pathaan interrogates Raafe about the location of the missile, and learns that the missile is situated in Afghanistan. By luring Jim's soldiers into a trap, Pathaan and his team attack Jim's base where Qadir is killed by Rubina before activating the missile, containing the virus. Pathaan chases after Jim with a jetpack, and they both crash land into a cabin.
Meanwhile, Rubina deactivates the missile, but finds that Raktbeej is not in the missile, instead in a passenger bounded airplane, which is about to land in Delhi. She informs Pathaan, who finds that Jim has the detonator. Luthra calls the air traffic control to prevent the plane from landing in Delhi. In the cabin, Pathaan and Jim fight brutally. Despite getting stabbed by Jim, Pathaan steals the detonator, deactivates Raktbeej, and then kills Jim by throwing him off the cliff. Afterwards, Pathaan is reinstated into RAW and made as the head of JOCR, while Nandini is posthumously awarded for her bravery.
In a mid-credits scene, Pathaan and Tiger are seen pondering about retiring and suggesting young agents who can replace them, but eventually decide to keep fighting the threats themselves.
Cast[]
- Shah Rukh Khan as Pathaan, a RAW agent
- Deepika Padukone as Rubina "Rubai" Mohsin, an ISI agent
- Grace Girdhar as young Rubai
- John Abraham as Jim, Leader of "Outfit X" and former RAW Agent and Kabir's partner
- Dimple Kapadia as Nandini Grewal, head of the Joint Operations and Covert Research (JOCR) department
- Ashutosh Rana as Colonel Sunil Luthra
- Prakash Belawadi as Dr. Sahani
- Prem Jhangiani as Dr. Farooqui
- Shaji Choudhary as Raza, member of JOCR
- Ekta Kaul as Shweta Bajaj, hacker and member of JOCR
- Diganta Hazarika as Joseph Mathews, sniper and member of JOCR
- Viraf Patel as Rishi Arya, intelligence analyst and member of JOCR
- Aakash Bhatija as Amol, member of JOCR
- Rajat Kaul as Raafe, Jim's henchman
- Manish Wadhwa as General Qadir
- Rumi Khan as Jim's henchman
- Mansi Taxak as Jim's wife
- Ashutosh Singh as Rubai's father
- Amanpreet Hundal as Rubai's mother
- Keith Sequeira as Pilot
- Rakesh Khatri as ATC Supervisor
- Mustafa Aksari as Fayyed
- Nikhat Khan as Sabba, Pathaan's foster mother
- Salman Khan as Avinash Singh "Tiger" Rathore (cameo appearance)
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Development[]
Yash Raj Films, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham officially announced Pathaan on 2 March 2022 on their social media accounts, revealing the release date with a first look teaser.[12] It was previously teased by other cast members, including Salman Khan and Vishal Dadlani, on various occasions before. Dadlani announced the film on Twitter, stating, "No number from the past matters, no number in the future is too big. The whole world is waiting for Shahrukh, more importantly, we're all working on a kickass film with great songs."[13] This film is YRF's first Dolby Cinema.[14]
Casting[]
Shanoo Sharma was the casting director. Khan was cast in the film in September 2020.[15] Padukone joined production that November,[16][17][18] while Abraham rounded out the main cast in June, joining filming in Mumbai.[19][20] Dimple Kapadia was cast in December 2020.[21][22] Salman Khan was confirmed to make a cameo appearance in November 2020, reprising his role as Avinash Singh Rathore from the Tiger franchise.[23][24]
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Theatrical[]
Pathaan was theatrically released, in standard, IMAX and 4DX versions, in India on 25 January 2023, coinciding with Indian Republic Day weekend along with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu.[25][7] Pathaan was the first Indian film to release in the novel ICE theatre format.[26] The film was released in 8000 screens worldwide, which included 5000 screens in Hindi and 450 screens in Tamil and Telugu versions within India.[27]
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The digital rights of the film were acquired by Amazon Prime Video, where it is scheduled to be premiere on 22 March 2023.[28]
Reception[]
Critical response[]
Pathaan received positive reviews from critics.[29] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87%, with an average score of 7.1/10, based on reviews from 23 critics. The site's critical consensus reads, "A slightly slapdash but still intoxicating blend of occasionally disparate ingredients, Pathaan offers over-the-top action thrills with Bollywood bells and whistles".[30]
Abraham, Padukone and Khan (l-r) at an event celebrating Pathaan's box-office success
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As of 2 February 2023[update], the film has grossed Template:INRConvert in India and Template:INRConvert overseas for a worldwide gross collection of Template:INRConvert.[31] This made it the fifth-highest-grossing Hindi film, eighth-highest-grossing Indian film, and the highest-grossing of Khan's career.[11]
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|url=value (help). Times Now. Retrieved 27 January 2023. - ↑ Hungama, Bollywood (12 August 2020). [TBA BREAKING: Shah Rukh Khan starrer Pathan to go on floors in November 2020 in UK; Rajkumar Hirani's film in 2022! : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama].
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