Shanghai

Shanghai is a movie set in the fictional Indian city of Bharat Nagar, where a political party supports the construction of an International Business Park while a socialist academics attack leads to the discovery of the complicity of local politicians in the attack and the eventual exposure of the truth behind the IBP project. Shanghai is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language Crime Thriller movie starring Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Farooq Shaikh, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Pitobash Tripathy and Shalini Vatsa. The movie is based on Z by Vassilis Vassilikos. Dibakar Banerjee Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Dibakar Banerjee, Ajay Bijli, Sanjeev K Bijli and Priya Sreedharan. Shanghai is written by Vasilis Vasilikos, Urmi Juvekar and Dibakar Banerjee and it is directed by Dibakar Banerjee. PVR Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Shanghai was released on 7th June 2012 and takes a screen time of 120 minutes. Shanghai was made on a budget of ₹23 crore and it was a hit at box office gross of ₹23 crore. The screenplay for the movie was written by Urmi Juvekar and Dibakar Banerjee. Cinematography was done by Nikos Andritsakis and editing by Namrata Rao. The music was composed by IIFA Award winner Shekhar Ravjiani along with Vishal Dadlani, Vishal Shekhar and Mikey Mccleary.