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A Wednesday

By RONNIE SCHEIB

Terrorists, cops and ticking time bombs make for an explosive mix in tyro helmer-scribe Neeraj Pandey’s “A Wednesday.” A lopsided two-hander featuring a couple of legendary Indian thesps locked in mortal conflict, this brisk political thriller pits a solitary terrorist (Naseruddin Shah), atop a building overlooking Mumbai, against a seasoned police chief (Anupam Kher) with all the combined municipal forces racing around at his command. Though timely, the pic’s excitingly packaged rumination on the ethics of counterterrorism may be couched in terms too regional to travel very far, the post-”Slumdog Millionaire” trendiness of Indian locales notwithstanding.

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