A Wednesday (1:44) 2008

A Wednesday is an excellent Indian thriller. Police Commissioner Rathod, on the eve of retirement, receives a phone call from a man who has planted five bombs in different locations around Mumbai. The demand is not money, the caller wants four well known terrorists released.  As the caller gives his instructions to the where and when of the release, the police are racing against the clock. The caller has excellent technology skills and the police need a hacker to trace his calls. The four terrorists are released to a predetermined location - have the police been out maneuvered? The is a very crisply told story with a twist at the end. I was initially confused but the storyline unfolds quickly and I became invested in this cat and mouse plot. The film is in Hindi with subtitles but there is considerable dialogue in English. This is a gem of a thriller and deserves a wider audience.