Awarapan 2 is drawing 50x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Awarapan 2 is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Nitin Kakkar, written by Kakkar, Bilal Siddiqui and Vishesh Bhatt, and produced under his banner Vishesh Films. A sequel to the 2007 film Awarapan, the film stars Emraan Hashmi, Disha Patani and Shabana Azmi. It follows former gangster Shivam Pandit, who is revealed to have survived a fatal number on his life roughly two decades earlier, as he embarks on a mission to bust a child trafficking racket in Bangkok after a baby girl he gave up for adoption is declared missing.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 15 edits to this article on 2026-08-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Box office
• Production

What changed that day

The article grew by 33 characters that day. The largest single addition was 28 characters to Production. See everything that changed on 2026-08-17 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.