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Madras Cafe

Madras Cafe

Intercept The Truth

20136.62h 10m

Overview

An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

Directed by Shoojit Sircar
Written by Somnath Dey, Juhi Chaturvedi, Shubendu Bhattacharya
Produced by Ronnie Lahiri, John Abraham
Box OfficeBudget: $5.4MRevenue: $6.5M

Top Cast

John Abraham

John Abraham

Major Vikram Singh

Nargis Fakhri

Nargis Fakhri

Jaya Sahni

Raashii Khanna

Raashii Khanna

Ruby Singh

Siddhartha Basu

Siddhartha Basu

Robin Dutt

Prakash Belawadi

Prakash Belawadi

Bala Krishnan

Avijit Dutt

Avijit Dutt

Swaroop

Dinesh Prabhakar

Dinesh Prabhakar

Rajshekaran

Ajay Rathnam

Ajay Rathnam

Anna Bhaskaran

P

Piyush Pandey

Cabinet Secretary of India

Leena Maria Paul

Leena Maria Paul

Tamil Rebel

Themes & Keywords

war correspondentcupboardsri lankaindiaassassination attemptarmy intelligencesri lankan tamil war

About Madras Cafe

Madras Cafe is a thriller, drama, action film released in 2013 exploring themes of war correspondent, cupboard, sri lanka, india, assassination attempt, army intelligence. Directed by Shoojit Sircar, it stars John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri, Raashii Khanna. An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

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