Ugly (film)

Ugly
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anurag Kashyap
Written by	Anurag Kashyap
Produced by	Arun Rangachari Vivek Rangachari Anurag Kashyap Madhu Mantena Vikas Bahl Vikramaditya Motwane
Starring	Rahul Bhat Ronit Roy Girish Kulkarni Siddhanth Kapoor Tejaswini Kolhapure Vineet Kumar Singh Surveen Chawla
Cinematography	Nikos Andritsakis
Edited by	Aarti Bajaj
Music by	Songs: G. V. Prakash Kumar Score: Brian McOmber
Production company	Phantom Films
Distributed by	DAR Motion Pictures Magic Cloud Media & Entertainment (International)
Release dates	24 May 2013 (2013-05-24) (Cannes) 26 December 2014 (2014-12-26) (India)
Running time	126 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹4.5 crore[2]
Box office	₹6.24 crore[3]

Ugly is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Anurag Kashyap. Jointly produced by Phantom Films and DAR Motion Pictures, the film stars Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh, Girish Kulkarni, Surveen Chawla and Anshika Shrivastava in the lead roles. It also features TV actor Abir Goswami in his last film appearance before his death in 2013. Told in the course of a week, Ugly follows the story of a struggling actor Rahul Varshney (Bhat), whose daughter Kali (Shrivastava) disappears, and the events that follow.

Kashyap had the idea for the film since 2006 and started writing the script after talking to one of his friends, who was in the Special Task Force, Lucknow, about kidnapping cases. He chose actors who could connect with the characters in the film. The film's background score and music were composed by Brian McOmber and G. V. Prakash Kumar respectively, while Gaurav Solanki wrote the lyrics. Nikos Andritsakis served as the film's cinematographer and Aarti Bajaj was its editor.

Ugly premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2014 New York Indian Film Festival, the third Ladakh International Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The digital poster of the film was released on 8 May 2013. The circumstances that led to the birth of Kali were separately made as short film, titled Kali Katha, and was released in YouTube on 23 December 2014. The film was theatrically released on 26 December 2014 after a two-year delay due to Kashyap's refusal to carry static anti-smoking warnings in the film. He had filed a case in court, but ultimately lost it. Upon release, the film received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, grossing over ₹6.24 crore (US$750,000) worldwide.