Ranked #79 of 100
Article 15
आर्टिकल 15 · 2019
An out-of-his-depth IPS officer investigates the rape and murder of two Dalit girls in rural UP and finds nobody wants an answer.
- Director
- Anubhav Sinha
- Year
- 2019
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Ayushmann Khurrana, Sayani Gupta, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa
Why it's at number 79
Mainstream Hindi cinema saying the word 'caste' out loud, in a police procedural that works.
An out-of-his-depth IPS officer investigates the rape and murder of two Dalit girls in rural UP and finds nobody wants an answer.
Article 15 sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anubhav Sinha — also responsible for Thappad, Bheed.
- Released in 2019, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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