---
title: 'Rustom (2016)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Tinu Suresh Desai'
released: '2016-08-12'
genres:
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'India'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rustom-2016'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5165344/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Rustom (2016)

2016 · Crime · India


## Synopsis

Rustom is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Tinu Suresh Desai and written by Vipul K Rawal. The film is jointly produced by Cape of Good Films, Zee Studios, KriArj Entertainment, Plan C Studios. It stars Akshay Kumar as Rustom Pavri - a naval officer, Ileana D'Cruz, Arjan Bajwa and Esha Gupta in lead roles. The film is loosely based on the K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra court case, and narrates the story of naval officer Rustom, who shares a happy relationship with his wife Cynthia. Soon, he discovers her affair with Vikram, a close friend, and is accused of murdering him.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Tinu Suresh Desai](https://cinepixo.com/people/tinu-suresh-desai)
- **Screenplay:** [Vipul K Rawal](https://cinepixo.com/people/vipul-k-rawal)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ankit Tiwari](https://cinepixo.com/people/ankit-tiwari)
- **Producer:** [Neeraj Pandey](https://cinepixo.com/people/neeraj-pandey)
- **Director of Photography:** [Santosh Thundiyil](https://cinepixo.com/people/santosh-thundiyil)
- **Editor:** [Shree Narayan Singh](https://cinepixo.com/people/shree-narayan-singh)

## Cast

- [Parmeet Sethi](https://cinepixo.com/people/parmeet-sethi)
- [Anang Desai](https://cinepixo.com/people/anang-desai)
- [Arjan Bajwa](https://cinepixo.com/people/arjan-bajwa)
- [Pavan Malhotra](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavan-malhotra)
- [Sachin Khedekar](https://cinepixo.com/people/sachin-khedekar)
- [Usha Nadkarni](https://cinepixo.com/people/usha-nadkarni)
- [Ileana D'Cruz](https://cinepixo.com/people/ileana-d-cruz)
- [Akshay Kumar](https://cinepixo.com/people/akshay-kumar)
- [Kanwaljit Singh](https://cinepixo.com/people/kanwaljit-singh)
- [Esha Gupta](https://cinepixo.com/people/esha-gupta)

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