Nishaanchi

Nishaanchi is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Anurag Kashyap who co-wrote the film with Ranjan Chandel and Omjit Sahu and produced by Ajay Rai and Ranjan Singh under JAR Pictures, in association with Flip Films. The first instalment of a duology, it stars Aaishvary Thackeray in his film debut, playing dual roles while Vedika Pinto, Monika Panwar, Kumud Mishra, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub and Vineet Kumar Singh appear in pivotal roles. Kashyap wrote the script for Nishaanchi in late-2016 inspired by the masala films of Salim–Javed duo in the 1970s, and the project being materialized after the involvement of Amazon MGM Studios. Following delays due to casting and pre-production, the film began production in early 2024 and continued till that July where filming was shot in Lucknow and Kanpur. The film was photographed by Sylvester Fonseca and edited by Aarti Bajaj, and featured a soundtrack composed by Anurag Saikia, Manan Bhardwaj, Dhruv Ghanekar, Nishikar Chhibber and Aaishvary himself. Due to the film's four hour long runtime, it was split into two parts, with the first part running for 177 minutes long. Nishaanchi was theatrically released on 19 September 2025, receiving mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing ₹1 crore. A direct sequel, Nishaanchi Part 2 released via Amazon Prime Video on 14 November 2025 along with the first part, as a result of the film's underperformance.