Wazir

Wazir (वज़ीर, 2016) is an Indian thriller from Bejoy Nambiar that you can watch online on iFILM. After his small daughter is killed, anti-terror officer Daanish befriends an aging chess master grieving a child of his own.

Grief is what introduces them. Pandit, a grandmaster who uses a wheelchair, teaches Daanish the game and, between moves, confides that his daughter Nina did not die by accident — a powerful government minister is to blame. When a shadowy figure known only as Wazir attacks the old man, Daanish starts digging on his own, though every piece on the board may be something other than it seems. Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar play the pair quietly, trusting the silences.

Nambiar lays the plot out like a match: sacrifices, traded pieces, an endgame won by whoever read the opponent one move deeper. The tight running time keeps it brisk, and the final move rewrites everything before it. Stream Wazir (2016) online on iFILM.