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{{Short description|2016 film by A. R. Murugadoss}}
{{For|the Japanese film with the same name|Akira (1988 film)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Akira
| image = Akira poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[A. R. Murugadoss]]
| producer = [[Fox Star Studios]] A.R. Murugadoss
| writer = '''Additional Screenplay and Dialogues:''' [[Anurag Kashyap]] '''Dialogues:''' Karan Singh Rathore
| screenplay = Santha Kumar A. R. Murugadoss
| story = Santha Kumar
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Mouna Guru]]'' (2011) by Santha Kumar}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Sonakshi Sinha]]
* [[Konkana Sen Sharma]]
* [[Anurag Kashyap]]
}}
| music = '''Score:''' John Stewart Eduri '''Songs:''' [[Vishal–Shekhar]]<ref name=ibtimes>{{cite web |title='Kaththi' Director AR Murugadoss Gives Anirudh a Bollywood Ticket |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kaththi-director-ar-murugadoss-gives-anirudh-bollywood-ticket-614558 |work=[[International Business Times]] |access-date=21 June 2015 |date=20 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Akira is the title for AR Murugadoss-Sonakshi project? |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/akira-is-the-title-for-ar-murugadoss-sonakshi-project-news-tamil-pdrjCSijdedhe.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140346/http://www.sify.com/movies/akira-is-the-title-for-ar-murugadoss-sonakshi-project-news-tamil-pdrjCSijdedhe.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 September 2015 |website=[[Sify]] |access-date=21 June 2015 |date=17 March 2015}}</ref>
| cinematography = [[R. D. Rajasekhar]]
| editing = [[A. Sreekar Prasad]]
| studio = [[Fox Star Studios]] [[AR Murugadoss|A.R. Murugadoss Productions]]
| distributor = Fox Star Studios
| released = {{Film date|2016|09|02|df=y}}
| runtime = 136 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR}}3.6 [[crore]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/akira-day-2-box-office-collection-sonakshi-sinhas-film-witnesses-growth-set-recover-its-cost-692361 |title='Akira' day 2 box office collection: Sonakshi Sinha's film remains steady; set to recover its cost |first=Parismita |last=Goswami |website=[[International Business Times]] |date=3 September 2016 }}</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR}}15.06 crore<ref name=BO/>
}}
'''''Akira''''' is a 2016 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]] co-written, produced and directed by [[A. R. Murugadoss]]. It is a remake of the 2011 Tamil-language film ''[[Mouna Guru]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=Sonakshi Sinha on sets of her action thriller 'Akira' |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/sonakshi-sinha-on-sets-of-her-action-thriller-akira/16072193 |work=[[Mid-Day]] |date=18 March 2015 |access-date=21 April 2015}}</ref> and features [[Sonakshi Sinha]], [[Konkana Sen Sharma]] and [[Anurag Kashyap]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Black Widow of Indian cinema |last=Bharadwaj |first=Rahul Deo |work=The Hans India |date=10 June 2016 |access-date=26 July 2016 |url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Bollywood/2016-07-10/The-Black-Widow-of-Indian-cinema/240994}}</ref>

[[Principal photography]] began in March 2015, and the film was released worldwide on 2 September 2016.<ref name="akira">{{cite web |title=A.R. Murugadoss' next starring Sonakshi Sinha titled Akira |url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/5303367/A.R.-Murugadoss-next-starring-Sonakshi-Sinha-titled-Akira |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323151825/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/5303367/A.R.-Murugadoss-next-starring-Sonakshi-Sinha-titled-Akira |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 March 2015 |access-date=18 March 2015 |date=26 April 2015 |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/sonakshi-sinha-starrer-akiras-teaser-poster-announces-new-release-date-september-2-2865163/ |title=Sonakshi starrer Akira's teaser poster announces new release date September 2 |date=20 June 2016 }}</ref> The soundtrack composed by [[Vishal–Shekhar]], was released on 16 August 2016. The film received mixed reviews from critics with praise for the performances of the cast but criticism for the writing of the film.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

A [[tie-in]] [[action game|action]] [[mobile video game]], titled ''Akira: The Game'', was also released along with the film. The video game was developed by [[Vroovy]].

== Plot ==
Akira Sharma, a young girl, witnesses a group of men [[Acid attack|throwing acid]] on a woman's face. She helps the police catch one of the criminals and is therefore harassed by the accused, who slashes her face out of revenge, giving her a scar. Subsequently, her father enrolls her in a self-defense class. A couple of days later, she comes across the same men who had escaped earlier and tries to catch them. One of them tries to throw acid on her, but it ends up on his own face in the brawl. Akira is arrested, convicted, and sent to a [[Youth detention center|remand home]] for the attack.

8 years later, Akira is released and later grows into a rebellious tough woman. When she starts going to college, her brother comes to pick her mother and her. And hence she moves from Jodhpur to [[Mumbai]]. She joins a college and begins living in a hostel, where she finds it difficult to adjust to normal life. The college is also dealing with a thieving student, as more and more electronics keep getting stolen. When a corrupt and drunk-on-power police officer, [[Assistant commissioner (police)|ACP]] Rane hits an elderly college professor with his car and then beats him up, the college students take out a massive protest. The protests turn violent, however Akira patiently waits to hand over their petition to the Commissioner.

A couple of days later, Rane goes to help a car crash victim but robs and kills him, when he finds loot in his trunk. His girlfriend, Maya, who is in the same college as Akira, secretly records his conversation about evidence disposal. Her bag with the camera is, however, stolen, and someone starts blackmailing Rane. Suspecting Maya, he brutally kills her. Despite his insistence, the case is handled by [[Superintendent (police)|SP]] Rabiya, who suspects Maya's murder.

Meanwhile, the college announces that they will pardon the electronic thief if they return all the stolen items anonymously. Akira finds a bag full of stolen items, including the camera, in front of her dorm. Rane's associates catch her with the camera and decide to kill her and two other witnesses. She, however, escapes when the men reload their gun after killing the other two.

Rane and his men, declare Akira to be mentally unstable. Given her violent past and her rebellious behaviour, her family members as well as her friends are easily convinced. She is taken away to a mental asylum, and, with the help of a corrupt doctor, they give her electric shocks to drive her insane. With the help of another mentally ill patient, she brutally murders the doctors and the guards and escapes. She abducts one of Rane's associates and blackmails him to prove her innocence. Rane, however, traces her hideout and attacks it. Rabiya, with an arrest-warrant for Rane, arrives and seizes all the arms but is stopped by the Commissioner, as the car-crash victim was the brother of a major politician – something which will lead to riots if the news of his murder breaks out. Rane gets back the charge, and the commissioner orders him to take Akira to a [[mental asylum]].

Helpless, Rabiya leaves but quietly carries along the seized arms, leaving those inside unarmed. Enraged, Akira easily kills Rane and his associates in hand-to-hand combat and then goes back to the mental asylum. Completely sane, she is released three months later. In the end, she starts living her late father's life in Jodhpur and is living peacefully there teaching [[deaf]] children.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Sonakshi Sinha]] as Akira Sharma
** Mishiekka Arora as young Akira
* [[Konkona Sen Sharma]] as [[Superintendent (police)|SP]] Rabiya Sultan [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
* [[Anurag Kashyap]] as [[Assistant commissioner (police)|ACP]] Govind Rane [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
* Rose J Kaur as Sister Marlyn
* [[Raai Laxmi]] as Maya Amin, Rane's girlfriend
* Teena Singh as Nikki, a college bully <ref>{{cite web |title=The new B-town birdie |url=http://epaper.tribuneindia.com/c/11948165 |website=The Tribune India |access-date=26 July 2016 |date=24 July 2016}}</ref>
* Phalguni Khanna as an acid attack victim
* [[Amit Sadh]] as Dr. Siddharth "Sid" Nerurkar, Shilpa's brother
* [[Urmila Mahanta]] as Anna Jain, the college Principal's daughter
* Lokesh Vijay Gupte as Inspector Dinesh Manik, Rane's associate
* [[Chaitanya Choudhury]] as Ajay Sharma, Akira's elder brother
** Taher Penwala as young Ajay
* [[Ashish Dixit]] as Vishal, Shilpa's brother and Akira's friend
* [[Smita Jaykar]] as Akira's mother
* Ankita Karan Patel as Shilpa Sharma, Ajay's wife
* Saurabh Goyal as Sunil Vij, Maya's friend
* [[Nandu Madhav]] as Inspector Rajeshwar Raai, Rane's associate<ref name="Movie review: Akira moves only in fits and starts">{{cite web |title=Movie review: Akira moves only in fits and starts |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/movie-review-akira-moves-only-in-fits-and-starts-697301-2016-09-02 |website=India Today |access-date=10 September 2018 |language=en |date=2 September 2016}}</ref>
*[[Krishna Bhatt]] as David
* Uday Sabnis as Constable Bapu Raao
* Narsingh Pandey as Akira's college professor
* Arun Verma as Akira's psychiatrist
* [[Atul Kulkarni]] as Jignesh Sharma, Akira's father (special appearance)
* Kajol Saroj as a patient at the asylum
* Shyam Bhimsaria as the comic Drunkard during the bathroom fight
{{colend}}

==Music==
{{Infobox album
| name = Akira
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Vishal–Shekhar]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 16 August 2016<ref>{{cite web |title=Akira (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP by Vishal-Shekhar on iTunes |url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/akira-original-motion-picture/id1144378109 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924051517/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/akira-original-motion-picture/id1144378109 |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 September 2016 |website=iTunes |access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref>
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Soundtrack|Feature Film soundtrack]]
| length = 24:25
| label = [[T-Series (company)|T-Series]]
| producer = [[Vishal–Shekhar]] John Stewart Eduri Aditya N. Abhijeet Nalani DJ Kiran Kamath
| prev_title = [[Sultan (2016 film)|Sultan]]
| prev_year = 2016
| next_title = [[Banjo (2016 film)|Banjo]]
| next_year = 2016
}}

The songs featured in the film were composed by the duo [[Vishal–Shekhar]]. The [[background score]] of the film was composed by John Stewart Eduri.

The song ''Kehkasha Tu Meri'' is a remake of the duo's Marathi song ''Harvali Pakhare'' from the 2012 film ''[[Balak-Palak]]'', sung by [[Shekhar Ravjiani]].
{{Track listing
| headline = Akira (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 24:25

| all_writing =
| all_lyrics =
| all_music =
| title1 = Rajj Rajj Ke
| note1 = Version 1
| writer1 =
| lyrics1 =
| music1 =
| extra1 = [[Sonakshi Sinha]], [[Vishal Dadlani]]
| length1 = 4:20

| title2 = Purza
| note2 =
| writer2 =
| lyrics2 =
| music2 =
| extra2 = [[Arijit Singh]]
| length2 = 3:35

| title3 = Kehkasha Tu Meri
| note3 =
| writer3 =
| lyrics3 =
| music3 =
| extra3 = [[Shekhar Ravjiani]]
| length3 = 3:02

| title4 = Rajj Rajj Ke
| note4 = Version 2
| writer4 =
| lyrics4 =
| music4 =
| extra4 = [[Nahid Afrin]], Vishal Dadlani
| length4 = 4:20

| title5 = Baadal
| note5 =
| writer5 =
| lyrics5 =
| music5 =
| extra5 = [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]
| length5 = 4:49

| title6 = Rajj Rajj Ke
| note6 = Remix by DJ Kiran Kamath
| writer6 =
| lyrics6 =
| music6 =
| extra6 = Nahid Afrin, Vishal Dadlani
| length6 = 4:19
}}

==Reception==
===Critical reception===
On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 33% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 5.60/10.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Tomatoes |first1=Rotten |title=Akira |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/naam_hai_akira |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Anupama Chopra]] giving the film 2.5/5, praised the performances of Sinha, Kashyap and Sharma, but criticised the second half. She wrote that "Anurag [Kashyap] gives Rane just the right touches of menace and sleaze." The second half, however, "strikes so badly in this film that it almost completely negates the first half, which is effective."<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last1=Chopra |first1=Anupama |title=Akira review by Anupama Chopra: Hits and misses |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/movie-reviews/akira-review-by-anupama-chopra-hits-and-misses/story-7vhjw18hASpkA2x6vNjZCJ.html |website=Hindustan Times |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en |date=2 September 2016}}</ref>

[[Anna M.M. Vetticad]], praised the acting but criticised the character development. For Sinha's character, she wrote, "Akira is the most poorly fleshed out character in the entire story...a woman who can fight as skillfully and strongly as any man. That is it. The workings of her mind, her motivations and her feelings, remain a mystery." She, however, praised Kashyap's portrayal of Rane, calling it the "best-written character" whose "drug-addled brain is never so clouded as to make him lose sight of his self-interest."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vetticad |first1=Anna M.M. |title=Akira review: Is this what Sonakshi Sinha deems a 'woman-centric film'? |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/akira-review-is-this-what-sonakshi-sinha-deems-a-woman-centric-film-2988470.html |website=Firstpost |access-date=29 September 2021 |date=2 September 2016}}</ref>

Writing for ''[[Reuters]]'', Shilpa Jamkhandikar praised the acting but criticised the writing calling it a mashup of "many half-baked sub-plots" and very similar in style to cop movies from the 80s. She believes that "[Akira] is a great example of a movie with a timely topic that suffers from outdated treatment." She, however, praised Kahyap's character, Rane, writing "[he] channels every 80s bad cop character we've seen. If it wasn't for him, "Akira" would have been a complete loss as a film."<ref name=":2">{{cite web |last1=Jamkhandikar |first1=Shilpa |title=Movie Review: Akira |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/movie-review-akira/movie-review-akira-idINKCN11816X?edition-redirect=in |website=Reuters |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en |date=2 September 2016}}</ref>

===Box office===
====India====
The film collected {{INRConvert|56|m}} on its opening day in [[India]]. By the end of its first weekend, ''Akira'' had grossed {{INRConvert|170|m}} and its first week collection was approximately {{INRConvert|223|m}} domestically.<ref name=BO>{{cite web |url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/box-office/special-features/id/834/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160904165904/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/box-office/special-features/id/834 |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 September 2016 |title=Box Office: Worldwide Collections and Day wise breakup of Akira – Bollywood Hungama |first=Bollywood |last=Hungama |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |date=3 September 2016}}</ref>

====Overseas====
''Akira'' collected {{INRConvert|14.2|m}} from [[North America]] ([[America]] and [[Canada]]), {{INRConvert|28.2|m}} from [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]], {{INRConvert|6.1|m}} from [[United Kingdom|UK]]. The film collected {{INRConvert|7.8|m}} from [[Pakistan]].<ref name=BO/>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|5465370}}

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