Akira (2016 Hindi film)

Akira
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	AR Murugadoss
Produced by	AR Murugadoss
Written by	Santha Kumar AR Murugadoss Anurag Kashyap Karan Singh Rathore
Screenplay by	AR Murugadoss (Additional Screenplay) Santha Kumar (Original Screenplay) Karan Singh Rathore (Dialogue)
Story by	Santha Kumar
Based on	Mouna Guru by Santha Kumar
Starring	Sonakshi Sinha Konkona Sen Sharma Anurag Kashyap
Music by	Vishal–Shekhar[1][2] (Songs) John Stewart Eduri (Score)
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Production company	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	₹300 million[3]
Box office	est. ₹1465.2 million[4]

Akira is a 2016 Indian action drama film co-written, produced and directed by AR Murugadoss^[5] It is a remake of the 2011 Tamil film Mouna Guru,^[6][7] and features Sonakshi Sinha in the titular role.^[8]

Principal photography began in March 2015, and the film released worldwide on 2 September 2016.^[5][9] The soundtrack composed by Vishal-Shekhar has been released on 16 August 2016.

Plot

Akira Sharma (Sonakshi Sinha) 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 see’s 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, Akira is accused of throwing acid on his face and is sent to juvenile jail.

Fourteen years later, Akira has grown into a brave young woman, while her father has died. Akira and her mother move in with her brother. Akira later joins college and lives in a hostel. A couple of students try to bully 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 who is behind this. The case is handled by SP Rabiya, (Konkona Sen Sharma) who suspects that Rane's girlfriend 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. The associates of Rane see her and take her away and decide to kill her. She sees three of associates of Rane 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, the associates of Rane 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 of Rane. Later Rane trace her hideout. They try to kill her, but Rabiya arrives at the right moment with orders to arrest Rane. Rabiya 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 and he will cause riots if he knows that a policeman was involved. Rane gets back 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 her dad's footsteps by teaching challenged kids.

Cast

• Sonakshi Sinha as Akira Sharma
• Konkona Sen Sharma as SP Rabiya
• Rose J Kaur as Nurse(ward lady who injected akira several times)
• Anurag Kashyap as ACP Rane
• Raai Laxmi as Maya (ACP Rane's girlfriend)
• Ankita Karan Patel as Shilpa Sharma
• Teena Singh^[10]
• Amit Sadh as Sidharth "Sid" Nerurkar
• Urmila Mahanta as Anna
• Atul Kulkarni as Akira's Father
• Lokesh Vijay Gupte as Inspector Manik
• Mishiekka Arora as Younger Akira
• Chaitanya Choudhury as Akira's elder brother
• Smita Jaykar as Akira's Mother
• Saurabh Goyal as Sunil
• Nandu Madhav as Inspector Rajeshwar^[11]

Music

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.

Box office

References

External links

• Akira on IMDb