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Raman Raghav was a deadly criminal in the 60s. He terrorized the city with his brutal killings. In 2015, Mumbai finds a similar psychopath in Ramanna. The tabloids label him as stoneman. The first few murders he commits is with a stone. On the night of his first murder, a cocaine addict comes looking for his supply. Just a few days later, Ramanna surrenders to the police. The man who interrogates him is the same cocaine addict. The cops don't buy his story and hence they lock him up, beat him and don't give him food. A bunch of boys find Ramanna a few days later and free him. The man loses his cool. He finds his next prey in his own sister. She lives in a lower middle class household with her husband and son. In the pretext of being hungry, she enters her home. When her husband angers her, he leaves home in a fit of rage. He returns as Ramanna the killer and attacks the family, killing them all. When Raghavan comes to investigate, he and his team finds an old picture of Ramanna and his sister and try to trace a link. Meanwhile Raghavan is in an open relationship with a woman named Simy. She undergoes three abortions for him, just because he cannot commit to her. Their relationship is dark and abusive and Raghavan is simply destructive. As Raghavan looks for clues in the murder, he finds himself Completely consumed by cocaine. Meanwhile, Ramanna is looking for his soul mate, his other half and finds him in Raghavan. He keeps a close check on Simy and ends up murdering her maid as well. Simy is shocked at Raghavan's callousness. After a night of over cocaine, he hooks up with a girl at Simy's place. Simy reacts and Raghavan kills him in a fit of rage. Ramanna surrenders to Raghavan and tells him how they are the two sides of the same coin. The film ends with Raghavan going after the girl who he hooked up with and is the only witness to Simy's murder.
TRIVIA
1. Nawazuddin Siddiqui has said that playing Raman Raghav was mentally draining. According to him, once during shoot, he got unwell and was taken to a hospital. He was told later that even while he was almost half-unconscious in the hospital, he was repeating his dialogues from the film.
2. The movie is inspired from the real life serial killer Raman Raghav who operated in Mumbai in 1960s but is not exactly a biopic. It's very much contemporary and hence the title 2.0.
3. Nawazuddin Siddiqui was hospitalized thrice during the entire shoot of the movie.
4. The movie premiered at the Directors' Fortnight section at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
5. The cocaine Vicky Kaushal's character snorts in the movie is actually a special powder made out of Glucon-D and corn starch. Vicky Kaushal practiced inhaling this powder to give his takes. He even had to consume more than 5-6 packets of cigarette in a day in the process of shooting.
6. Vicky Kaushal had locked himself in a room for five days to prepare for the role.
7. The movie was shot in 20 days because of a shoestring budget. Kashyap wrote smaller scenes to make the film look big. While normal Hindi films have 70 scenes, this has around 220. It helped in making the film look bigger as the locations kept changing.
- What is the release date of 'Raman Raghav 2.0'?
Release date of Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vicky Kaushal starrer 'Raman Raghav 2.0' is 2016-06-24. - Who are the actors in 'Raman Raghav 2.0'?
'Raman Raghav 2.0' star cast includes Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Vipin Sharma and Mukesh Chhabra. - Who is the director of 'Raman Raghav 2.0'?
'Raman Raghav 2.0' is directed by Anurag Kashyap. - What is Genre of 'Raman Raghav 2.0'?
'Raman Raghav 2.0' belongs to 'Drama, Thriller, Crime' genre. - In Which Languages is 'Raman Raghav 2.0' releasing?
'Raman Raghav 2.0' is releasing in Hindi.