Dhaakad Movie Details:
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Genre | Action, Spy, Thriller |
Release date | 20 May 2022 |
Running time | 2hr 5min |
Certificate | A |
Starring | Kangana Ranaut Arjun Rampal Divya Dutta Sougata Ghosh Saswata Chatterjee |
Directed by | Razneesh Razy Ghai |
Screenplay by | Razy Ghai Rajiv Menon |
Story by | Razy Ghai Chintan Gandhi Rinish Ravindra |
Produced by | Deepak Mukut Sohel Maklai |
Cinematography by | Tetsuo Nagata |
Edited by | Rameshwar S. Bhagat |
Music by | Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy Dhruv Ghanekar Badshah Hiten Kumar |
Production Company | Sohum Rockstar Entertainment Sohel Maklai Productions Asylum Films |
Distributor | Zee Studios |
Dhaakad Movie Cast & Characters:
- Kangana Ranaut as Agent Agni
- Arjun Rampal as Rudraveer
- Divya Dutta as Rohini
- Saswata Chatterjee as Handler
- Sharib Hashmi as Fazal
- Tumul Balyan as Pratap
- Gabriel Georgiou as Shamsher
- Siddhant Shukla as Traitor
- Gyula Mesterhazy as Fyodor
- Daniel Viktor Nagy as Sheikh
- Mihir Ahuja as young Rudraveer
- Sejal Jaiswal as Agni’s Mother
Storyline:
Agni is a highly trained and deadly field agent, who is ruthless in her tactics of handling terrorists and criminals. Agni is an orphan, whose parents were killed by an assassin when she was a child. She is then raised by an ITF officer. Agni is sent to Budapest to gather details about an arms trafficking and human trafficking racket. As per the information collected by her, the mastermind of the racket is Rudraveer and his partner, Rohini. Rudraveer is a mysterious character, who operates from Sohagpur Coal Fields near Bhopal, India. Agni is sent to collect information on Rudraveer so that he can be nabbed. Although hesitant at first, as her parents died in India, Agni goes ahead. She does not realize that she is going through with the toughest mission of her career. What happens forms the rest of the plot.
Dhaakad Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Budget | ₹85 crore |
Worldwide Collection |  ₹3.77 crore |
About Dhaakad Movie:
The film was announced on October 20, 2020. Principal photography began on January 15, 2021. The film was shot in Betul, Madhya Pradesh and Budapest. Filming was completed on July 8, 2021.
Kangana Ranaut shared her different looks from the film. Kangana Ranaut wrote on Instagram, “She is fierce, feisty and fearless. #AgentAgni is all geared up to set the big screen on fire. In an interview, she said, “Dhaakad is not only a benchmark film for my career but will be a turning point for Indian cinema as well. The film is mounted on a large scale, and is one of a kind female-led action film.”
The actors appearing in the film as Agents, including Kangana Ranaut, went through 3 months of extensive training for their roles.
Kangana Ranaut charged ₹26 crore for her role in the spy action thriller film, Dhaakad. The film’s lifetime collection is ₹3.77 crores, which is less than 1/6th of the fee that Kangana Ranaut charged for this film.
In the film, a 12-minute action sequence was designed by professional action masters from Korea as well as Hitz International from Hollywood led by Cam Hilts.
Dhaakad was released theatrically by Zee Studios on May 20, 2022, along with Kartik Aaryan and Kiara Advani starrer Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2. The film became one of the biggest box office bombs in Indian cinema, earning only ₹3.77 crores worldwide.
Dhaakad is considered as one of the worst-performing films at the box office.
Dhaakad premiered on July 1, 2022, on ZEE5 under subscription but, during the ZEE5 Manoranjan Festival it was made free on air till 1 January 2023.