Shanghai

Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop. Shanghai is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language Crime Thriller film featuring Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Pitobash Tripathy, Supriya Pathak and Rajiv Ranjan. The movie is inspired from 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 motion picture. 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 Vishal Dadlani along with Shekhar Ravjiani, Vishal-shekhar and Mikey Mccleary.