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.
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