A Wednesday!

A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller drama film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher in the lead roles. Set between 2 pm to 6 pm on a Wednesday, the film depicts an about-to-retire police commissioner(Anupam Kher) narrating a sequence of events that unfolded on a particular Wednesday. They do not exist in any written record, only in his mind and in those of several individuals who were involved, willingly and unwillingly, and how those events affected the lives of all the concerned people. It was remade in Tamil as Unnaipol Oruvan and Telugu as Eeenadu, with Kamal Hassan donning the role played by Naseeruddin Shah in the original and Mohanlal and Victory Venkatesh playing the role acted by Anupam Kher in the original in Tamil and Telugu respectively.A Common Man is the official remake in English starring Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross.

The film, made at a small budget, was a sleeper hit at the box office grossing over Rs. 340 million worldwide. Despite its low hype, it was a box office success due to critical acclaim and positive word-of-mouth. Box Office India declared it a hit. Critics credited the movie for its effective storyline and its twist ending. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards.