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Checkmate is a film of genre Thriller with Ankush Chaudhari
Checkmate (2008)
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Add to a movie listGenres Thriller
Rating75%
Checkmate is a 2008 Marathi thriller film. Directed and Written by Sanjay Jadhav and produced by Kanchan Satpute and Chandrashekhar Mahamuni.
This movie seems to be heavily inspired by the 2003 movie Confidence with Director: James Foley, Writer: Doug Jung
Stars: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, though the treatment given to the movie is excellent and changes made to Indianize it works.
Actors
Ankush Chaudhari
(Vishal Korgaonkar)
Swapnil Joshi
(Mohan Bhave)
Sonali Khare
Sanjay Narvekar
(Rajan Mahabal)
Anand Abhyankar
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