The Extended Canon
Bulbbul
बुलबुल · 2020
A child bride in 19th-century Bengal grows into something the men in the estate should be frightened of.
- Director
- Anvita Dutt
- Year
- 2020
- Genre
- Horror · Drama
- Cast
- Tripti Dimri, Avinash Tiwary, Rahul Bose, Paoli Dam
Why it's in the canon
The most striking visual debut of 2020 — a folk-horror reading of patriarchy that actually works.
A child bride in 19th-century Bengal grows into something the men in the estate should be frightened of.
Bulbbul sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anvita Dutt — also responsible for Qala.
- Released in 2020, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Horror, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
If you liked this