Special 26 (2013)

I love this movie so much

Please don't spend money on this.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This is really excellent movie done acting by Akshay. His role is CBI officer and acted brilliant in the act. He is not an original CBI officer , he was the thief in the same movie.Special 26, also known as Special Chabbis, is a 2013 Indian thriller heist film directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Akshay Kumar in the lead role with Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Kajal Aggarwal, Jimmy Shergill and Divya Dutta in supporting roles. The film is inspired by the 1987 Opera House heist where a group posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers executed an income tax raid on the jeweler in Mumbai. Special 26 released on February 5, 2013 to widespread critical acclaim and was regarded as one of the best films of 2013

This movie is one of the classics by neeraj pandey.. There are lots of goofs caught in the movie. One particular was that while checking the security, Manoj Bajpaye ask constable to check the cctv camera working or not in last robbery scene at Tribhovan jewllers. But at era of 1987 cctv was not discovered yet.. :) Yet this was much exciting and edge of the seat thriller movie by Neeraj Pandey and all actors are superb.. Complete entertainer. And the main part of story is that the person on whose life this stroy is based is still not caught by police. He is mohan lal and he made the robbery as per last scene in real at opera house Mumbai with help of 26 CBI candidates. Which were recruited by himself with fake interview. Even these candidate didn't know that they have been fooled and unknowingly help this man in robbery.. Hatsoff to this brain

Neeraj Pandey has directed 3 movies as of 2015 and all of them have been thrillers. Special 26 is no exception and it is based on a real life robbery that took place in Opera House, Mumbai in 1987. A trademark of Neeraj Pandey's movies is the brilliant cinematography which makes the visuals exceptional. As the movie is set in 1987, the filmmakers have made a lot of effort to recreate that era and it can be seen in the production design. The movie tends to veer towards the direction of typical Bollywood movies but for the most part it is a taut thriller with solid acting performances. Manoj Bajpayee is the pick of the actors and he is authoritative as the CBI officer. My overall impression of the movie is positive and it is definitely recommended.

A well written and ill executed film.For most of the time, people are walking in the film and that too as if in stop motion, where the slow motion comes and disturbs the interest. The climax is more or less predictable just that it had a few hints by the end and an avid film goer might have predicted it. OK, the performances are good and I must say, post MOHRA this is the first film of Akshay Kumar I had seen in theatre and I was actually happy as it did not have fights or unwanted action sequences and instead had some brain thing. Thanks to Neeraj Pandey for not putting heavy action sequences for Akshay Kumar. Manoj Bajpai and Anupam Kher fared well. Kajal Agarwal was not needed at all, and this could have been better if the romantic track and those songs were not there. Coming to Neeraj Pandey, the director I was very disappointed, coz post Wednesday, it gave some hope that this man may churn out some non commercial flicks and would raise the bar, but he disappointed me with the song dance number, and the love track that made me just wait to go to the real plot. It was written with a good intent but it just did not fit in as a whole. Technically, the best thing is the meticulous production design of the Mumbai and other places of the 1980's and for this itself I would give an award to Sunil Babu. The editing falls flat and please cut off 30-45 minutes and increment the pace by making the walking as they are and take off the slow motion and for 75 minutes, you will get a wonderful ride otherwise it made a just above average flick. The time of nearly 135 minutes was made for the sake of making and I did not see any real purpose behind that. A generous 2/5 for a well designed film more than anything else. Neeraj, you disappointed me big time, need to see what you got up your sleeve next.