Mumbaikar (film)
Indian film
Mumbaikar is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Santosh Sivan. A remake of Tamil film Maanagaram (2017), it stars Vikrant Massey, Vijay Sethupathi, Tanya Maniktala and Hridhu Haroon. This marks Vijay Sethupathi's Hindi film debut.
Principal photography commenced in January 2021. Mumbaikar released on 2 June 2023 on JioCinema.
Plot
Several totally unconnected people are shown at a bar owned by a notorious crime boss known as PKP (Prabal Kant Patil). Fate would later connect each of them somehow. One of them is Vikrant, an unemployed youth, along with his friends. Vikrant harbors a dream to become an honest police officer someday. His uncle is police inspector Shinde in Mumbai.
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