The Extended Canon
Astitva
अस्तित्व · 2000
A husband discovers a decades-old affair and the film asks, calmly, why his ownership was ever the premise.
- Director
- Mahesh Manjrekar
- Year
- 2000
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Tabu, Sachin Khedekar, Namrata Shirodkar
Why it's in the canon
One of the sharpest Indian films about marriage as property, carried by Tabu.
A husband discovers a decades-old affair and the film asks, calmly, why his ownership was ever the premise.
Astitva sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar — also responsible for Vaastav.
- Released in 2000, in the 2000s — 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.
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