--- title: 'Rowdy Rathore (2012)' type: 'film' director: 'Prabhu Deva' released: '2012-01-01' runtime_minutes: 140 genres: - 'Action' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rowdy-rathore-2012' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077833/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Rowdy Rathore (2012) 2012 · 140 min · Action, Thriller · India Original title: रावड़ी राठौर ## Synopsis Rowdy Rathore is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Prabhu Deva and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala under the UTV Motion Pictures and Bhansali Productions banners. A remake of the 2006 Telugu film Vikramarkudu, based on an original story written by V. Vijayendra Prasad, it stars Akshay Kumar in a dual role of a brave police officer and a thief. The film also features Sonakshi Sinha, Gurdeep Kohli, Yashpal Sharma and Paresh Ganatra in supporting roles, while Nassar portrays the main antagonist. In the film, Vikram Rathore, a brave and honest police officer is killed by a gangster named Baapji. But his team replaces him with Shiva, a thief who happens to be his look-alike, to avenge his death. ## Credits - **Director:** [Prabhu Deva](https://cinepixo.com/people/prabhu-deva) - **Screenplay:** [Nitya Prakash](https://cinepixo.com/people/nitya-prakash) - **Original Music Composer:** [Sajid-Wajid](https://cinepixo.com/people/sajid-wajid) - **Producer:** [Sanjay Leela Bhansali](https://cinepixo.com/people/sanjay-leela-bhansali), [Ronnie Screwvala](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronnie-screwvala) - **Director of Photography:** [Santosh Thundiyil](https://cinepixo.com/people/santosh-thundiyil) ## Cast - [Sonakshi Sinha](https://cinepixo.com/people/sonakshi-sinha) - [Akshay Kumar](https://cinepixo.com/people/akshay-kumar) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.utvgroup.com/motion-pictures/recent-releases/rowdy-rathore.html Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/rowdy-rathore-2012 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7371867); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.