Chehre
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| Directed by | Rumi Jaffery |
| Written by | Ranjit Kapoor Rumi Jaffery |
| Story by | Ranjit Kapoor |
| Based on | A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| Produced by | Anand Pandit Vaishal Shah (Co-producer) |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Emraan Hashmi Krystle D'Souza Siddhanth Kapoor Annu Kapoor Alexx O'Nell Samir Soni Raghubir Yadav Dhritiman Chatterjee Rhea Chakraborty |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan |
| Edited by | Bodhaditya Banerjee |
| Music by | Score: Clinton Cerejo Songs: Vishal–Shekhar Gourov Dasgupta |
Production companies | Anand Pandit Motion Pictures Saraswati Entertainment Private Limited |
| Distributed by | Pen Marudhar Entertainment |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹25 crore |
| Box office | ₹8.26 crore |
Chehre (transl. Faces) is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Rumi Jaffery and produced by Anand Pandit with Saraswati Entertainment Private Limited. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi in lead roles, alongside Krystle D'Souza, Rhea Chakraborty, Siddhanth Kapoor, Annu Kapoor, Alexx O'Nell, Samir Soni, Dhritiman Chatterjee and Raghubir Yadav in supporting roles. It is an uncredited adaptation of the 1956 German novel A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which had earlier been adapted in Marathi as Shantata! Court Chaalu Aahe (1971), in Kannada as Male Nilluvavarege (2015) and in Bengali as Anusandhan (2021).
The film was announced on 11 April 2019 and filming began on 10 May 2019. It was scheduled for a theatrical release on 17 July 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released in theatres on 27 August 2021. Upon release, the film was a box office disaster, grossing only ₹8 crore against its ₹25 crore budget.