The Extended Canon
Bombay
बॉम्बे · 1995
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman elope to Bombay and raise twins into the 1992–93 riots.
- Director
- Mani Ratnam
- Year
- 1995
- Genre
- Drama · Romance
- Cast
- Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala
Why it's in the canon
Rahman's score and Ratnam's insistence on filming the riot as a failure of everyone.
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman elope to Bombay and raise twins into the 1992–93 riots.
Bombay sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mani Ratnam — also responsible for Dil Se.., Guru, Roja.
- Released in 1995, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Romance.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Bombay (1995) · 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
No box-office figure, rating or audience score is printed on this page, because none has been independently verified for this film. The dated, sourced money figures the site does stand behind are on the box office page.
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