Jawan (film)
Jawan ( ) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Atlee in his Hindi film debut. It is produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under Red Chillies Entertainment. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as father and son who team up to rectify corruption in society. Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi, Deepika Padukone (billed as a special appearance), Priyamani and Sanya Malhotra appear in supporting roles. Principal photography commenced in September 2021 with filming taking place in Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Rajasthan and Aurangabad. The film's soundtrack and background score were composed by Anirudh Ravichander, with cinematography by G. K. Vishnu and editing by Ruben. A few scenes were simultaneously re-shot for the Tamil version of the film, particularly Khan's appearance in the song "Zinda Banda" ("Vandha Edam" in Tamil), Sethupathi's portions and scenes featuring Yogi Babu. Jawan was initially planned for release on 2 June 2023, but was postponed due to unfinished post-production work. It was theatrically released on 7 September 2023 in standard, IMAX, 4DX and other premium formats, coinciding with Janmashtami. Jawan received critical acclaim from critics who praised its cast performances, screenwriting, action sequences and musical score. The film set several box-office records for a Hindi film, overtaking those set by Khan's previous release Pathaan (2023). Grossing over , it emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of 2023, the second-highest-grossing Hindi film and the fifth highest-grossing Indian film. Plot 
Azad is the prison officer of a women's prison in Mumbai who hijacks a Mumbai Metro train along with a group of six inmates: Lakshmi, Eeram, Ishkra, Kalki, Helena and Janhvi. Azad negotiates with NSG officer Narmada Rai to ask the Agriculture Minister to send 400 billion in exchange for the passengers' lives. Kalee Gaikwad, a global arms dealer, agrees to fund the deal after learning that his daughter Alia is also one of the captives. When Alia questions their motive, Azad reveals his plan of donating the money towards the loan waiver of 700,000 impoverished farmers in the country. Azad and his gang directly transfer the funds into the farmers' bank accounts and escape from the metro. Through Alia, Azad reveals his name as Vikram Rathore to Kalee. Meanwhile, Azad meets Narmada and her daughter Suchi, where Azad and Narmada fall for each other and their marriage is eventually fixed. Azad and his gang initiates their next operation by kidnapping the Health Minister and demands to introduce better infrastructure at every government hospital in exchange for the Health Minister's life. The infrastructure is immediately upgraded in the hospitals, allowing Azad and his gang to escape again after a shootout between Narmada and her team. Soon after their wedding, Narmada finds out about Azad's true identity and confronts him, but Kalee's brother Manish and his henchmen capture and torture them. However, Azad is saved by his doppelgänger named Vikram Rathore. Narmada finds out the identities of Azad's accomplices and confronts them by disguising herself as an inmate, where she learns about Azad and Vikram's connection. In 1986, Captain Vikram Rathore is a commando in the Special Ops unit of the Indian Army, who sets out on an operation to hunt down the terrorist group responsible for attacking and killing 40 Indian soldiers. After facing several casualties that were caused by malfunctioning weaponry, Vikram and his team successfully takes down the terrorists and files a complaint against Kalee, who is the supplier of the weapons. Kalee unsuccessfuly tried to make a deal with Vikram. The same night, Vikram and his wife Aishwarya are attacked by Kalee and his henchman Murad. Kalee takes Vikram onboard a plane and seemingly shoots him to death. Aishwarya is sentenced to prison for killing three cops, who were on Kalee's payroll. Afterwards, Vikram is declared as a national traitor; Aishwarya gives birth to their child, Azad in prison. Before getting hanged,  Aishwarya asks him to prove his father's innocence and provide justice to the oppressed. Unknown to the world, Vikram survives the attack after being found and rescued by a tribal group in northeast India, but loses his memory. Years later, Vikram's teammates meets him at the village, where Vikram learns about Azad and sets out to meet him. In present day, Narmada's subordinate Irani is revealed to be on Kalee's payroll, where he tries to kill them in the prison and Lakshmi is killed in the resulting crossfire. Azad arrives at the prison and kills Irani in a stampede. Vikram, Azad and his team attack Kalee's trucks, which contains money for the upcoming elections that will be used to boost Kalee's political ambitions. Azad and his team manages to steal the trucks, while Vikram and his team get captured by Kalee's henchmen. Azad releases another video and states that he has stolen voting machines and demands to seal 253 factories in the country, responsible for air and water pollution. The factories are sealed by the government. Kalee learns about Azad's location in the women's prison and a fight ensues, where Vikram finally recovers his memory and helps Azad by hanging Kalee to death. A few months later, STF officer Madhavan Naik, who helped Azad in the completion of his missions, meets Azad and assigns a  new mission of targeting Swiss banks. 