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Madras Cafe is a film of genre Drama directed by Shoojit Sircar released in USA on 23 august 2013 with John Abraham

Madras Cafe (2013)

Madras Cafe
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Released in USA 23 august 2013
Length 2h10
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Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Spy
Rating75% 3.7973953.7973953.7973953.7973953.797395

Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian political espionage thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri, Rashi Khanna and Leena Paul in lead roles. The film is set in the late 1980s and early '90s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Madras Cafe was released on 23 August 2013. Box Office India stated the film did above average business. The film won the National Film Award for Best Audiography for Nihar Ranjan Samal (location sound recording) and Bishwadeep Chatterjee (sound design) at the 61st National Film Awards.

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The plot opens in Jaffna, where a bus full of passengers is stopped by armed men. They take all of them out and kill them mercilessly. A little girl tries to escape, but is shot and killed immediately.

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