Yami Gautam Dhar’s excellent performance in ‘A Thursday’ has been earning recognition and love from the audience and the critics equally. It’s a socially relevant film that has dared to break the thriller movie mold. If you have not watched it yet, set your reminder for 24th July at 12 noon to catch the World Television Premiere of ‘A Thursday’ only on Star Gold.
Expressing excitement on ‘A Thursday’ movie’s world television premiere on Star Gold, Yami Gautam Dhar said ” I read that this film is the most popular one of 2022 so far. It felt wonderful. Now it is set to premiere on July 24 on Star Gold. I don’t have time to sink it all in and feel what has happened, yet everything is crystal clear in my mind. I feel really good to be part of a film which people connected with. We can say that we did something substantial. It had a little more than a social message in a different way which was tried to present in sync with the audience”.
Yami is elated that the television premiere is so anticipated that she has been getting requests from the media for her interviews. Yami has been making herself available for the interviews even though she is in the USA with her husband Aditya Dhar on a long deserved holiday after marriage.
Yami Gautam Dhar’s character Naina is introduced in the film as a schoolteacher who has kidnapped 16 students from her kindergarten school. She then makes a threatening phone call to the police department, claiming she wants to speak with the Prime Minister. She will shoot students in ‘alphabetical order’ if the police and the PM fail to meet her demands.
The plot takes a turn when amongst a larger catchment – the general janta which is glued to constant sensation, and to making decisions-by-social-media-algorithms: who will die, and who will stay alive? Get answers to all your questions as the story unfolds on Star Gold on 24th July.
The movie is directed by director Behzad Khambata. Apart from Dhar, the movie stars actors Neha Dhupia, Dimple Kapadia, Karanvir Sharma, and Atul Kulkarni in pivotal roles.