A thriller with a message. That is what best describes the extremely fast-paced movie. No songs, no dances, no verbosity. Simply action. Even the dialogue sequences "appear as action" where there is no room for redundancy. This is the third off-beat thriller I have seen that had the ground slip from under my feet towards the end. The other two are the psycho-thriller 'Primal Fear' and the bank robbery drama 'Ankhen'. However, none of them carried a social message.
'A Wednesday' is a hard-hitter - on both terrorism and our own so-called counter-intelligence. A common man using his common intelligence (and uncommon wrath) has the city on his fingertips. And has the police held hostage to kill four die-hard terrorists. Why? Because he wants to prove a point. Because he is scared to go out on the street, or on the bus, or on the local train lest there be a bomb planted there. Because he lost a young gentleman who used to greet him in the train he would take everyday. Because he wanted to prove that foiling the terrorists' plans or nabbing them does not require some supernatural "intelligence".
The movie voices the suppressed anger, fear, and hurt of the "people on the streets" who fell victims to the Mumbai bomb blasts. Mind-blowingly enough.
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