 The film opened to critical acclaim and grossed worldwide, surpassing "Dhoom 2" in the worldwide gross, becoming the ninth highest worldwide grosser of all time for a Bollywood film, at the time of its release.Deol had two releases in 2012, both of which were political thrillers– Dibakar Banerjee's "Shanghai" and Prakash Jha's "Chakravyuh".In the latter, Deol starred alongside Arjun Rampal as a police informer, but later gets involved in a Naxalite movement.