Tamil director Atlee made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi film Jawan, which starred Shah Rukh Khan in dual roles, Deepika Padukone in a special appearance, Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi, among others. Jawan was also music composer Anirudh Ravichander's first full fledged Hindi project (Anirudh had previously guest composed one song for the Hindi-Tamil bilingual titled David in 2013), with the Arijith Singh, Shilpa Rao sung Chaleya song becoming the biggest chartbuster of 2023. 

This action thriller Jawan, produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under Shah Rukh Khan's home banner Red Chillies Entertainment, is currently gearing up for a theatrical release in Japan. Jawan's Japan release date is November 29, 2024.

Jawan, which is currently streaming on Netflix in India, revolves around a woman prison warden named Azad (Shah Rukh Khan), who recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes, shedding light on corruption and injustice across the country. Why he does this and how it leads him to an unexpected reunion, is what forms the rest of the story.

Ek kahani justice ki...vengeance ki...villain aur hero ki...
Ek kahani Jawan ki...
Aa rahi hai Japan ke theatres mein pehli baar!!!
Toh ab reh gaya bas ek sawaal- Ready-ah?

The fire & action you all loved is making a massy massy massy arrival in Japan!#Jawan hits the screens… pic.twitter.com/7IVUQlvguP

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) September 12, 2024

Jawan has screenplay by Atlee, S. Ramanagirivasan, and Shridhar Raghavan was a script consultant on the movie. The film's original Hindi dialogues are by Sumit Arora, while Preetisheel Singh D'souza is the character designer. Kumaar, and Irshad Kamil (guest lyricist) wrote the words to the songs in Jawan's soundtrack. The rap portion in Jawan is written and performed by Raja Kumari. 

Japan, are you ready-ah? 😎💥#Jawan hits the big screens on 29th November! pic.twitter.com/ZcOxrydSNf

— atlee (@Atlee_dir) September 12, 2024

An action thriller with a runtime of 169 minutes i.e. 2 hours 49 minutes, Jawan has GK Vishnu for cinematography, Spiro Razatos, Anl Arasu, Craig Macrae, Yannick Ben, Kecha Khamphakdee, and Sunil Rodrigues for action, T Muthuraj for production design,  Ruben for edits, and Farah Khan, Shobi & Lalitha, Vaibhavi Merchant for choreography.