Rowdy Rathore

A small-time thief in Mumbai named Shiva falls for a woman, Paro, who has come to the city for a wedding, and she returns his feelings. Wanting to leave his life of petty crime behind for her, he plans one last score. It is during this scheme that he meets a young girl, Chinki, who insists he is her father. Shiva soon learns the reason for her mistake: he has a double, a man being pursued by criminals. The discovery forces him to deal with fatherhood, with hiding the child from Paro, and with the danger surrounding his lookalike.

Rowdy Rathore was released in 2012 and runs 143 minutes. It is an action comedy with crime elements, directed by Prabhu Deva, whose earlier directing work includes Villu and Vedi; it sits third in the list of his films, between Vedi and Ramaiya Vastavaiya. The screenplay is by Shiraz Ahmed and A. C. Mugil, and the producers are Ronnie Screwvala, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Rajat Rawail, with Bhansali Productions among the companies behind it. Akshay Kumar plays both Shiva and Vikram Singh Rathore, with Sonakshi Sinha as Paro. Nassar, Yashpal Sharma, Mushtaq Khan and Gurdeep Kohli are among the credited cast of 22. The film has an IMDb rating of 5.8 from around 27,000 votes and a TMDB rating of 6 from 122 votes.