The Extended Canon
Anaarkali of Aarah
अनारकली ऑफ़ आरा · 2017
A Bhojpuri stage singer is groped on stage by a powerful vice-chancellor and refuses every offer to let it go.
- Director
- Avinash Das
- Year
- 2017
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra, Pankaj Tripathi
Why it's in the canon
The clearest film about consent Hindi cinema has made, set in a world it usually mocks.
A Bhojpuri stage singer is groped on stage by a powerful vice-chancellor and refuses every offer to let it go.
Anaarkali of Aarah sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Avinash Das.
- Released in 2017, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Anaarkali of Aarah (2017) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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