The Extended Canon
Bombay Talkies
बॉम्बे टॉकीज़ · 2013
Four directors on cinema's centenary: a marriage cracked open by a kiss, an emu, a boy who wants to dance, and a jar of murabba.
- Director
- Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Anthology · Drama
- Cast
- Rani Mukerji, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Saqib Saleem
Why it's in the canon
Zoya Akhtar's segment about a boy who wants to be Sheila is the best short in Indian cinema.
Four directors on cinema's centenary: a marriage cracked open by a kiss, an emu, a boy who wants to dance, and a jar of murabba.
Bombay Talkies sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap — also responsible for Gangs of Wasseypur, Black Friday, Khosla Ka Ghosla.
- Released in 2013, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Anthology, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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