HOTEL MUMBAI (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Dev Patel (Lion), Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name), Nazanin Boniadi (The Next Three Days), Anupam Kher (The Big Sick), Tilda Cobham-Hervey (52 Tuesdays), Jason Isaacs (A Cure for Wellness), Alex Pinder (Angel Baby), Amandeep Singh (film debut), Suhail Nayyar (Udta Punjab), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (The Greatest Showman), Angus McLaren (Court of Lonely Royals), Yash Trivedi (film debut), Vipin Sharma (Inkaar), Manoj Mehra (film debut), Carmen Duncan (Harlequin)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Anthony Maras (film debut), director, writer, editor; John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), writer; Mike Gabrawy (Jungle), Gary Hamilton (First Reformed), Basil Iwanyk (Sicario), Andrew Ogilvie (Hula Girls), Julie Ryan (Red Dog) and Jomon Thomas (The Man Who Knew Infinity), producers; Volker Bertelmann (Lion), composer; Nick Remy Matthews (Broken Hill), cinematographer; Peter McNulty (The Master), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 2008, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai is attacked by a group of armed terrorists, as part of a city-wide assault against 12 locations across the city. Members of the hotel staff, including waiter Arjun (Patel), and the numerous guests, among them British-Muslim heiress Zahra (Boniadi) and her American husband David (Hammer), are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices in order to keep others alive…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The terrifying real-life terrorist attack across Mumbai is thrillingly re-enacted in this captivating action-drama starring Armie Hammer and Dev Patel, the latter of whom also serves as an executive producer.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2019

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