Zanjeer The Movie : Apoorva Lakhia’s film Zanjeer was a remake of the 1973 Hindi film of the same name. The film marked the Bollywood debut of Tollywood actor Ram Charan (son of South megastar Chiranjeevi) in the lead role, alongside Priyanka Chopra.
The film was shot simultaneously in Hindi and Telugu. In Telugu, the title of the film was Toofan. Prakash Raj played the negative role after his success in Hindi films like Wanted, Singham, and Dabangg.
While the Hindi version of the film was dubbed in Chinese as Chialo Kaxlaug, the Telugu version was also dubbed in Tamil and Malayalam. The release date was scheduled for September 6, 2013.
Cast and Crew of Zanjeer
Directed : Apoorva Lakhia
Produced : Mahi’s Entertainment , Puneet Prakash Mehra ,Sumeet Prakash Mehra , Flying Turtle Films
Screenplay : Suresh Nair ,Apoorva Lakhia
Story : Apoorva Lakhia
Based on Zanjeer (by Salim-Javed)
Starring : Ram Charan,Priyanka Chopra,Amitabh Bachchan,Sanjay Dutt (Hindi),Srihari (Telugu)
Prakash Raj, Mahie Gill, Ankur Bhatia, Atul Kulkarni (Hindi), Tanikella Bharani (Telugu)
Music : Meet Bros Anjjan,Chirantan Bhatt
,Anand Raj Anand
Cinematography : Gururaj R. Jois
Editing : Chintu Singh
Studio : Reliance Entertainment
Prakash Mehra Productions
Flying Turtle Films
Distributed by Reliance Entertainment
Release date(s) : 6 September 2013
Running time : 125 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi ,Telugu
Budget INR 45 crore (US$7.2 million)
