Pathaan (Movie)
Introduction of Pathaan:
Hindi-language action thriller Pathaan was produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films in 2023 and co-written and directed by Siddharth Anand. Ashutosh Rana and Dimple Kapadia play minor roles, while Shah Rukh Khan plays the lead role in the fourth episode of the YRF Spy Universe, which also stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham. Jim, a former RAW agent, will strike India with a terrible virus. Pathaan, an exiled RAW agent, teams up with ISI agent Rubina Mohsin to stop him.
In Mumbai, principal photography started in November 2020. The movie was filmed in several places, including Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Russia, Italy, and France. Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara scored the film’s score, and Vishal-Shekhar wrote the songs. An additional ₹15 crore (US$1.9 million) was spent on print and advertising, bringing the total production expenditure for the movie to an estimated ₹235 crore (US$29 million). Contrary to expectations, there was little media coverage or public events during the pre-release period.
On January 25, 2023, which was also Republic Day weekend, Pathaan was released in theatres throughout India. Critics gave the movie high marks for its narrative, director, action scenes, music, and acting performances.
The movie broke multiple records at the box office for a Hindi movie, including the highest opening day, opening weekend, opening week, and opening single day in India. In the end, it became the highest-grossing Hindi movie ever made in India and broke records in all significant international markets. Pathaan achieved a global box office gross of ₹1,050.30 crore (US$130 million), making it the second highest-grossing Indian film of 2023 (until it was eclipsed by Khan’s subsequent release, Jawan), the third highest-grossing Hindi film ever, and the sixth highest-grossing Indian film ever.
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Storyline:
2019: saw the Indian government repeal Composition 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave Jammu and Kashmir special status. The news affects Qadir, a Pakistani army assistant who has cancer. He strikes a contract with Jim, the leader of Outfit X, a private terrorist association, to exact vengeance on India.
2020: Pathaan, a RAW agent, forms a unit called” Joint Operations and Covert Research”(J.O.C.R.) with Major Nandini Grewal, his elderly officer, to rehire former RAW agents and dogfaces who were forced to retire because of trauma or injury but still wish to serve their country. Pathaan and his group are transferred to Dubai with authorization from RAW joint clerk Colonel Sunil Luthra to baulk at Outfit X’s contended plot to assault the Indian President during a scientific conference.
They eventually learn that the information they were provided about the planned attack on the President was a hoax intended to fool them and that their real goal was to abduct two scientists, Drs. Farooqui and Sahani. Pathaan makes trouble to discourage Jim from assaulting the convoy of scientists. After a fight, Jim and Dr. Sahani manage to escape together. Jim was once a RAW agent, Luthra confesses during the agency debriefing.
After the government declined to pay for the desired rescue in 2003, the agency was unable to find his body when Somalian terrorists killed his wife and unborn child. For this bravery, he was given the Vir Puraskar award. He allegedly threatened to kill himself to exact revenge on the nation and the agency for failing to save his family. Former agents made up the deceased in Dubai.
Pathaan learns of the metaphor “Raktbeej” and that their plutocrat originated from the story of Rubina Mohsin, a Pakistani croaker who lived in Spain (Rubai). After Pathaan gets to Spain and is restrained by Jim’s men, he finds out that Rubai was formerly an ISI agent. Jim’s men are attacked by Rubai as he leaves his caching place, and Pathaan makes his flight. They go to Moscow to take it before Jim does, as Rubai discloses that Raktbeej is there.
But Pathaan is betrayed by Rubai, who also arranges for his detention by the Russian police. It is revealed that Pathaan used Rubai to coerce him into stealing the Raktbeej for Jim. After Pathaan is kidnapped, tortured, and sent to prison by rail, “Tiger” saves him. Pathaan visits Africa in 2022 and apprehends Jim’s gorilla Raafe.
When he encounters Nandini, he tells her about Jim copping two Saber dumdums and she tells him where Rubai is located in Paris. When Pathaan meets Rubai, he reveals that the Raktbeej was created using a modified smallpox contagion and was forced by Jim’s orders from a confined Dr. Sahani. She also laments the fact that she betrayed Pathaan without realizing her nation would organize such a terrible assault.
One of the balls harbouring the infection is successfully recovered after the arduous journey to Jim’s lab in Siberia, but Jim steals the other sphere. Luthra and Nandini visit Jim’s lab; they wish to return the sphere to India to develop a vaccine.
Luthra also has Rubai jugged because of his questionable loyalty. Although Farooqui of the Indian Institute of Contagious Conditions (IICD) welcomes Nandini, nothing seems to be in place. When Jim calls, he tells them that the sphere was previously responsible for spreading the infection throughout the university. The affected scientists and Nandini shoot themselves to death within the installation in trouble to stop the contagion from spreading.
A controlled blast later destroys the installation. Jim gives the order to remove Indian dogfaces from Kashmir within the coming twenty- four hours. Pathaan learns that the bullet is in Afghanistan when he questions Raafe about its location. After saving Rubai, they launch an attack on Jim’s headquarters and deceive Jim’s supporters into stepping into a trap.
Rubai excludes Qadir after he fires the gunshot that spreads the virus. Pathaan follows Jim on a jetpack until they both tumble inside a cabin. In the meantime, Rubai discovers that Raktbeej is actually inside a passenger airliner that is scheduled to land in Delhi after deactivating the bullet. Jim has the detonator, as Pathaan finds out from Rubai. Luthra calls air business control to help the aircraft from the wharf in Delhi.
The cabin begins to tumble over a precipice following a bloody fight between Pathaan and Jim outside. Pathaan stabs Jim, but before the foundation collapses, Pathaan grabs the detonator, disables Raktbeej, and kills Jim by throwing him out of the cabin.
Following this, Nandini receives the Vir Puraskar posthumously for her frippery, and Pathaan is brought back into RAW and appointed as the leader of J.O.C.R. Pathaan. Tiger is shown considering withdrawal and immolation youthful agents as implicit successors in a sequence during the credits, but they eventually choose to continue battling the pitfalls on their own.
Filming of Pathaan:
On March 2, 2022, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, and Yash Raj Films formally launched Pathaan on social media, confirming the release date along with a first-look teaser. Salman Khan and Vishal Dadlani were among the other cast members who had previously made fun of it on a few different occasions. Dadlani tweeted his announcement of the movie, saying, “No number in the past matters, no number in the future is too big.” The world is waiting for Shah Rukh, but more than that, we’re all working on a really good movie with amazing soundtracks.” This movie marks YRF’s debut in Dolby Cinema.
On November 17, 2020, in Mumbai, principal photography for the movie commenced. Production shifted to Dubai in January 2021. Several significant action scenes, such as an extended pursuit scene, were filmed concurrently. The team had a two-day break on April 12, 2021. Further filming schedules were cancelled, nevertheless, after it was reported that some cast members tested positive for COVID-19, leading to a lockdown in Maharashtra. On June 25, the Mumbai location of Yash Raj Studios reopened for filming. Another screening of the movie started later in July.
During this timetable, Padukone started filming. Filming for a song was originally slated to begin in Mallorca and Cadiz on October 7, but the date was moved. To film action scenes starring Khan, Padukone, and Abraham, the production relocated to Spain in February 2022. Then, Cádiz and Mallorca were the locations for filming.
The film was wrapping up in Yash Raj Studios after the Mumbai schedule was finished in March 2022, following the completion of the Spain schedule. Additional sequences and reshoots were finished in October 2022. The movie was filmed in several places in Russia, Italy, France, Afghanistan, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and India. It was the first ever Indian film, and it was shot at Lake Baikal, Siberia.
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Box Office:
Many records for a Hindi film’s first weekend at the box office were broken by Pathaan. With its first day’s gross of ₹100 crore (US$13 million), it became the first Hindi film to achieve this feat globally. On its inaugural day, it brought in ₹106 crore (US$13 million) worldwide, of which ₹36.69 crore (US$4.6 million) came from revenue outside.
Worldwide, the film crossed the ₹200 crores (US$25 million) mark, in the first two days, the ₹300 crores (US$38 million) mark in the first three days, and the ₹400 crores (US$50 million) mark in its first four days, becoming the fastest Hindi film to do all. It also became the fastest-grossing Hindi film in Indian history, taking in ₹200 crore (US$25 million) in four days, and ₹300 crore (US$38 million) in seven. It shattered the records held by the Hindi adaptation of K.G.F: Chapter 2 (2022), a Kannada film.
It surpassed Dangal (2016) to become the first domestically distributed Hindi film to earn over ₹400 crore (US$50 million) by the second weekend. During its five-day extended weekend, Pathaan grossed US$25.5 million in its first weekend of release outside of India. With US$2.5 million in IMAX sales, the movie became the biggest-grossing Indian film ever.
It opened in 695 theaters in North America and Canada and made US$6.88 million, placing it third, for a total of US$9.48 million, a record for a Hindi movie. With £319,348 on its first day at the box office in the UK and Ireland, it became the highest-grossing Indian film ever. It brought in a total of £2 million during the weekend, coming in second place to Avatar: The Way of Water with £1.4 million.
In the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany, it broke previous records for Hindi film opening weekends. In its first weekend of release, it made US$582,000 in Germany, making it the highest-grossing Hindi movie there. According to Box Office India, it became the highest-grossing Hindi film internationally, excluding China, where it did not release, with a total of almost US$31 million in its first eight days of release.
After earning more than $13.4 million on its second weekend, Pathaan surpassed Dangal to become the highest-grossing Hindi movie in the US. In the UK, it also made history by being the first Indian film to make more than £3 million, making $4.15 million. It became the highest-grossing Indian movie in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. Being released outside of China, Pathaan became the first Hindi movie to make over $100 million in revenue.
Pathaan made history on its fourth Wednesday, becoming the first Hindi movie to collect ₹500 crore (US$63 million) in net revenue in India. Pathaan became only the second Hindi film and the fifth Indian film to gross over ₹1000 crore globally on the twenty-seventh day of its release. It surpassed Baahubali 2: The Conclusion to become the highest-grossing Hindi film in India on the 37th day of its release. According to Box Office India, the movie is the 25th “All-Time Blockbuster” in the history of the Hindi cinema business.
As of April 6, 2023, the movie’s total revenue stood at ₹1,050.30 crore (US$130 million), with ₹654.28 crore (US$82 million) earned in India and ₹396.02 crore (US$50 million) earned overseas. It went on to become the biggest-earning film of Khan’s career, the fifth-highest-grossing Indian film, the fourth-highest-grossing domestically, and the second-highest-grossing Hindi film.
Release Date of Pathaan:
On January 25, 2023, Pathaan was released in theatres across India in conventional, IMAX, and 4DX formats. Telugu and Tamil dubbings were also included. The release fell on the weekend of Indian Republic Day. The first movie from India to be shown in the innovative ICE theatre format was Pathaan. 8000 screens throughout the globe saw the film’s premiere, with 5000 of those being for the Hindi version and 450 for the Tamil and Telugu versions inside India.
The film made history as Bangladesh’s first Hindi-language film when it debuted in theatres on May 12, 2023. Russia saw the premiere of the movie on July 13, 2023. The film’s Japanese premiere took place on September 1, 2023.
For ₹100 crore, Amazon Prime Video purchased the digital streaming rights to Pathaan. The expanded version of the movie debuted in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi on the platform on March 22, 2023. Star Gold has satellite rights to the movie, and on June 18, 2023, it was televised there.
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