Bollywood release

Ishqiya

Name: Ishqiya
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Released: 2010-01-29
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Adil Hussain

Bollywood20101h 55mHindiTop 71% of Bollywood budgets

27Standing

274th of 316 in Bollywood

Reported gross: 26
Return on budget: 34
Audience rating: 43
Momentum: 6

Out-grossed 26% of Bollywood releases with reported figures ($7M).
Returned 1.7× its budget, against an industry median of 2.5×.
Momentum in the 6th percentile.
Audience rating 6.5 from 82 votes, the 43rd percentile.

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Cost: $4M
Took: $7M

Against a Bollywood median of 2.5×, so this one returned 0.7 times what a typical release there does.

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The picture

While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.

Released: 29 January 2010
Runtime: 1h 55m
Language: Hindi
Industry: Bollywood

Top billedAll 17 credits

Naseeruddin ShahKhalujaan
Vidya BalanKrishna Verma
Arshad WarsiBabban Hussain
Salman ShahidMushtaq
Adil HussainVidyadhar Verma
Anupama KumarManju Kakkad

Made by

Director: Abhishek Chaubey
Screenplay: Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Sabrina Dhawan
Original Music Composer: Vishal Bhardwaj
Director of Photography: Mohana Krishna
Producer: Raman Maroo, Vishal Bhardwaj

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ComedyThriller

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