The film is based on a true story. In November 2008, ten Pakistani members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organization, carried out a series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai in India. The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday 26th November and lasted until Saturday 29th November, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308. Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai: at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Trident Oberoi Hotel, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, the Leopold Cafe, the Cama Hospital, the Nariman House Jewish community center, the Metro Cinema, St. Xavier's College, and in a lane behind 'The Times of India' building.
One of a number of dramatic film dramatizations about or based on or inspired by the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. The films are (in order of release): Mumbai Massacre (2009) (which has been edited into the episode Mumbai Massacre (2009) of the US television series "Secrets of the Dead"); the short film Embrace (2012); the Hindi film Shahid (2012); the Bollywood movie The Attacks of 26/11 (2013); the French feature film Taj Mahal (2015); One Less God (2017) (a.k.a. The Mumbai Siege: 4 Days Of Terror); and Hotel Mumbai (2018).