Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam, a Hindi legal drama starring Rajkummar Rao, was released in theatres on 16 October 2026, according to India TV, Plex and the Hollywood Reporter India. It was originally scheduled for 7 August and was postponed, and the makers did not disclose the reason for the delay, according to India TV.
Rao plays Ujjwal Nikam, the veteran public prosecutor, in the film, which is directed by Avinash Arun Dhaware and produced by Dinesh Vijan under the Maddock Films banner. The supporting cast includes Wamiqa Gabbi, Jaideep Ahlawat, Sikandar Kher and Tarun Sharma, according to India TV, and Lalit Prabhakar plays Ajmal Kasab, Nassar, Ashish Vidhyarthi and Ritwik Sahore also appear, according to a search summary.
The film explores Nikam’s legal career and personal life and focuses on high-profile cases including the trial of Ajmal Kasab over the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, according to India TV. A search summary adds that it also revisits the trials after the 1993 Bombay blasts. Nikam himself said that the film shows ‘the part no headline ever carried’, the untold aspects of his journey as both a prosecutor and a family man, according to the report.
The film’s release date coincides with another Rajkummar Rao film, Raftaar, which also opened on 16 October, as IndiaX24 reports in a separate article. Two films with the same lead actor opening on one day is unusual, and the reports reviewed do not say whether the date was planned.
The subject is one that Indian audiences know. The 26/11 attacks of 2008 killed many people in Mumbai, and Kasab was the only attacker captured alive, which is general background and is not part of the reports reviewed. The film’s focus on the courtroom, and not on the attack, is the point that its makers stress.
Reviews and box-office figures were not available at the time of writing, because the film was releasing that day. The reports reviewed do not give the film’s budget or running time, so IndiaX24 does not describe them.
Maddock Films, founded by Dinesh Vijan, is the production house behind the film, according to the reports. Wamiqa Gabbi, who stars in it, is also in the Tamil film DC, which began streaming on SonyLIV on 16 October, as IndiaX24 has reported in an earlier article.
Nikam is a well-known figure in Indian public life, and his name has been linked to major prosecutions, according to the film’s description in the reports. The reports reviewed do not list the cases beyond the 26/11 trial and the 1993 Bombay blasts, and IndiaX24 does not add others.
The trailer was released by Bollywood Hungama’s channel with the release date of 16 October, according to the search results. IndiaX24 did not view the trailer and does not describe it.
The film arrives with a story that has a documented public record. The trials that it dramatises ended in convictions, according to the summary of the film’s subject matter, which refers to the conviction of Ajmal Kasab, and the reports reviewed do not say how closely the film follows the court records or whether scenes are fictionalised. Viewers should treat it as a dramatisation and not as a legal account.
The film’s makers describe it as the untold story of the prosecutor, which means that it focuses on his personal life and the cases, and the reports reviewed do not list the cast members’ roles beyond the leading ones.
IndiaX24 will report the film’s reviews and first-weekend collections.
Image: Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, 2014 (file photo). Photo by Rishabh Tatiraju, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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