The Extended Canon
B.A. Pass
बी.ए. पास · 2012
An orphaned Delhi student is drawn into an affair with an aunt's friend and then into a trade he cannot leave.
- Director
- Ajay Bahl
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Neo-noir · Drama
- Cast
- Shadab Kamal, Shilpa Shukla, Rajesh Sharma
Why it's in the canon
India's bleakest neo-noir, and Shilpa Shukla's fearless central performance.
An orphaned Delhi student is drawn into an affair with an aunt's friend and then into a trade he cannot leave.
B.A. Pass sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ajay Bahl.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Neo-noir, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — B.A. Pass (2012) · 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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